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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... opinion upon a title , or settled the draft of a deed of assignment . Another starts upon the strength of his oral qualifications . Full of confidence and ardour , and fired with admiration of preceding models , he is all for eloquence ...
... opinion upon a title , or settled the draft of a deed of assignment . Another starts upon the strength of his oral qualifications . Full of confidence and ardour , and fired with admiration of preceding models , he is all for eloquence ...
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... pains to conceal a private opinion that the party richly deserves it . If there is a spot on your daughter's cheek , he will blurt out that it is the evil ; or if your wife coughs , will abruptly warn you that she is 14 The English Malady .
... pains to conceal a private opinion that the party richly deserves it . If there is a spot on your daughter's cheek , he will blurt out that it is the evil ; or if your wife coughs , will abruptly warn you that she is 14 The English Malady .
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... opinion of the good people of the sod . He and I were walking through the Little Green , in Dublin , ( at that time the market for fruits and vegetables ) . He seemed much pleased with the good humour of the sellers : " Ay , " said he ...
... opinion of the good people of the sod . He and I were walking through the Little Green , in Dublin , ( at that time the market for fruits and vegetables ) . He seemed much pleased with the good humour of the sellers : " Ay , " said he ...
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... opinion is less known . The " privilège " of the French , and the " fashion " of the English ( the greater absurdity of the two ) is no where to be met with . In the divisions of the different classes , there is also , generally ...
... opinion is less known . The " privilège " of the French , and the " fashion " of the English ( the greater absurdity of the two ) is no where to be met with . In the divisions of the different classes , there is also , generally ...
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... opinion ; -they are among the sweetest things in the circuit of our later poetry . Rich as the additions to it have been , and exhaustless as its resources seem to be , poeti- cal talent in the female sex was never seen before in equal ...
... opinion ; -they are among the sweetest things in the circuit of our later poetry . Rich as the additions to it have been , and exhaustless as its resources seem to be , poeti- cal talent in the female sex was never seen before in equal ...
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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.