The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... remarkable , its object and intention turning out complete failures . All he wished for or cared for was the return of Amersham , as the first step in his progress to his bed - room , in which , whether with or without supper , " he ...
... remarkable , its object and intention turning out complete failures . All he wished for or cared for was the return of Amersham , as the first step in his progress to his bed - room , in which , whether with or without supper , " he ...
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... remarkable glow of thankfulness in the breasts of the objects of their benevolence ; and the reader will anticipate us by identifying these persons in the givers of advice . A convalescent may feel grateful to the doctor , e'en with the ...
... remarkable glow of thankfulness in the breasts of the objects of their benevolence ; and the reader will anticipate us by identifying these persons in the givers of advice . A convalescent may feel grateful to the doctor , e'en with the ...
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... remarkable in the lean , wiry figure of the Mussulman , who followed his master with a noiseless tread that hardly rustled the fallen leaves . But look at him again , and you can trace in the springy step and restless eagle - eye that ...
... remarkable in the lean , wiry figure of the Mussulman , who followed his master with a noiseless tread that hardly rustled the fallen leaves . But look at him again , and you can trace in the springy step and restless eagle - eye that ...
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... remarkable feature in my character , that whenever you inform your father , or any of your relatives , that you have sold your money out of the funds , and placed it in my hands , I shall forthwith inform them what the motive was which ...
... remarkable feature in my character , that whenever you inform your father , or any of your relatives , that you have sold your money out of the funds , and placed it in my hands , I shall forthwith inform them what the motive was which ...
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... remarkable were it wholly confined to those benefited by it ; but , till one becomes used to it , the effect of seeing this sort of gentry received with distinguished consideration in all fashionable circles , and treated as something ...
... remarkable were it wholly confined to those benefited by it ; but , till one becomes used to it , the effect of seeing this sort of gentry received with distinguished consideration in all fashionable circles , and treated as something ...
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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.