The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Page 58
... Clara was really and truly glad to see him , and testified more interest in her inquiries after his welfare , upon remarking his wor- ried look and clouded eye , than she might have done had he worn the same hopeful and almost ...
... Clara was really and truly glad to see him , and testified more interest in her inquiries after his welfare , upon remarking his wor- ried look and clouded eye , than she might have done had he worn the same hopeful and almost ...
Page 60
... Clara he felt no such fear , and to her he resolved to confess this deepest of all his sorrows . She listened to him as he expected she would do : her speaking features expressed concern , sympathy , and what was certainly as welcome as ...
... Clara he felt no such fear , and to her he resolved to confess this deepest of all his sorrows . She listened to him as he expected she would do : her speaking features expressed concern , sympathy , and what was certainly as welcome as ...
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... Clara , " said Charles , deeply touched , and most truly grateful for the interest which her earnest manner ex- pressed , " that I shall soon again be under the shelter of my father's roof , and of my father's wisdom . Your kindness has ...
... Clara , " said Charles , deeply touched , and most truly grateful for the interest which her earnest manner ex- pressed , " that I shall soon again be under the shelter of my father's roof , and of my father's wisdom . Your kindness has ...
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... Clara most joyfully acceded , and was made more happy by this new approach to prudence and economy than she believed any thing could now make her . But before this arrangement could take place , it was necessary that some part of the ...
... Clara most joyfully acceded , and was made more happy by this new approach to prudence and economy than she believed any thing could now make her . But before this arrangement could take place , it was necessary that some part of the ...
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... Clara returned from London , Sir George Meddows was in possession of Charles Chesterfield's legacy , and Charles Chesterfield was in possession of Sir George Meddows's note of hand for the amount . May . vol . LXII . NO . CCXLV . F CHAP ...
... Clara returned from London , Sir George Meddows was in possession of Charles Chesterfield's legacy , and Charles Chesterfield was in possession of Sir George Meddows's note of hand for the amount . May . vol . LXII . NO . CCXLV . F CHAP ...
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Page 477 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 86 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Page 201 - Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water ; but the swallow alone, in general, washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together : in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny weather sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops...
Page 201 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Page 86 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 427 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Page 86 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Page 547 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!
Page 483 - The cuckoo's a fine bird, he sings as he flies; he brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies. He sucks little birds' eggs to make his voice clear; and when he sings „cuckoo!
Page 85 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.