New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 17Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1826 |
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... gave himself ( what was probably his chief motive in submitting to the delay ) the reputation of having received a regular and learned education . He was called to the Bar in 1798 , where his talents soon bringing him into notice , he ...
... gave himself ( what was probably his chief motive in submitting to the delay ) the reputation of having received a regular and learned education . He was called to the Bar in 1798 , where his talents soon bringing him into notice , he ...
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... have escaped deformity . There was a certain extra - natural lumpish conformation about his neck and shoulders , which gave the idea that the materials composing them must have been originally intended for Mr. Wallace . 9.
... have escaped deformity . There was a certain extra - natural lumpish conformation about his neck and shoulders , which gave the idea that the materials composing them must have been originally intended for Mr. Wallace . 9.
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... gave it this name from a grenadier of the National Guard having been the first to mount the wall and enter the Bastille ; but when the flame of liberty in Paris seemed to be con- verted into hell - fire , and patriotic men into demons ...
... gave it this name from a grenadier of the National Guard having been the first to mount the wall and enter the Bastille ; but when the flame of liberty in Paris seemed to be con- verted into hell - fire , and patriotic men into demons ...
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... gave me fifty guineas for this piece ; and I knew nothing of its having been published until I saw a printed book of it lying on his table at Knightsbridge . Even in this step my kind friend had my future interest warmly in view , and ...
... gave me fifty guineas for this piece ; and I knew nothing of its having been published until I saw a printed book of it lying on his table at Knightsbridge . Even in this step my kind friend had my future interest warmly in view , and ...
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... gave poor Lawler a kick on the head , and he never came up alive . From Brighton we went to Tunbridge Wells , where I took hand- some and convenient lodgings on Mount Sion ; the house was on the right - hand side as we ascended the hill ...
... gave poor Lawler a kick on the head , and he never came up alive . From Brighton we went to Tunbridge Wells , where I took hand- some and convenient lodgings on Mount Sion ; the house was on the right - hand side as we ascended the hill ...
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Page 177 - CLXXVII •Oh, that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements, in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted, can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot, Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot...
Page 352 - Therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which seldom faileth of the effect. Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Page 334 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Page 491 - It was remarkable, too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist. However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
Page 229 - He spake no dream, for as his words had end, Our Saviour lifting up his eyes, beheld In ample space, under the broadest shade, A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour...
Page 250 - Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises : barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window ; Richmond Hill and Ham walks bound my prospect ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Oueensberry.
Page 215 - HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 229 - With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, Gris-amber-steam'd ; all fish, from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drain'd Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
Page 268 - ... and his being zealous for toleration, together with his cold behaviour towards the clergy, gave them generally very ill impressions of him ; in his deportment towards all about him he seemed to make little distinction between the good and the bad, and those who served him...
Page 426 - Garth, Vanbrugh, and Congreve," said Pope, (and Tonson, the bookseller, who was sitting by, and knew them all well, agreed with him) " were the three most honesthearted, real good men, of the poetical members of the Kit-Kat Club.