The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... known the reverse to be the truth . Nor indeed is this the worst ; for many persons consider themselves as conferring an obliga- tion by the very act of receiving one . A great man fancies that he has conferred an honour on a little man ...
... known the reverse to be the truth . Nor indeed is this the worst ; for many persons consider themselves as conferring an obliga- tion by the very act of receiving one . A great man fancies that he has conferred an honour on a little man ...
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... known to the greater part of your readers , may not be familiar to all . The extent of a Russian nobleman or gentleman's property is not reckoned as in other countries by its acrage , but by the number of persons employed upon it . Now ...
... known to the greater part of your readers , may not be familiar to all . The extent of a Russian nobleman or gentleman's property is not reckoned as in other countries by its acrage , but by the number of persons employed upon it . Now ...
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... known to the Russian nobility , who have even something like a code of regulations to decide matches . Their greyhounds are mostly of the larger rough - haired fan - tail breed , occasionally crossed with the Persian . Hunting with ...
... known to the Russian nobility , who have even something like a code of regulations to decide matches . Their greyhounds are mostly of the larger rough - haired fan - tail breed , occasionally crossed with the Persian . Hunting with ...
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... known of this before I myself named it to her , I should be quite ready to believe that from the very first her attention to me had no other object . " " Have no further doubts then on the subject . I will undertake to assure you that ...
... known of this before I myself named it to her , I should be quite ready to believe that from the very first her attention to me had no other object . " " Have no further doubts then on the subject . I will undertake to assure you that ...
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... known at Maplebury , grew stronger the more he thought of it . " I do give you the promise you require , and hereby pledge you my word and honour never to mention the subject to my father or any of my family as long as you will keep the ...
... known at Maplebury , grew stronger the more he thought of it . " I do give you the promise you require , and hereby pledge you my word and honour never to mention the subject to my father or any of my family as long as you will keep the ...
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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.