The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 36-37Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... nature to that wordless but most meaning smile . 66 You think me very foolish for crying at first sight of the sea , I daresay ; but is it not true that all the greatest and most glorious things in nature make the human heart melancholy ...
... nature to that wordless but most meaning smile . 66 You think me very foolish for crying at first sight of the sea , I daresay ; but is it not true that all the greatest and most glorious things in nature make the human heart melancholy ...
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... nature's ele- ments ! " 66 enough , cannot enough comprehend what is so stating that Mr. Anson was engaged when he ... natural ve- hemence , I fled down stairs to the cabin , to the sheltering wing of my chaperone . And yet , though I ...
... nature's ele- ments ! " 66 enough , cannot enough comprehend what is so stating that Mr. Anson was engaged when he ... natural ve- hemence , I fled down stairs to the cabin , to the sheltering wing of my chaperone . And yet , though I ...
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... Nature was strong in me , and I wept as pas- sionately as if for a dear and valuable friend . Even the careless pat on the head which had been his warmest salutation to me would now have been more precious than the kindest ca- resses ...
... Nature was strong in me , and I wept as pas- sionately as if for a dear and valuable friend . Even the careless pat on the head which had been his warmest salutation to me would now have been more precious than the kindest ca- resses ...
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... natural to her position ; but , apart from this , was a girl of sound sense and great force of character . Thus far in life , she had not encountered circumstances of a nature calculated to develop what was in her . The time for that ...
... natural to her position ; but , apart from this , was a girl of sound sense and great force of character . Thus far in life , she had not encountered circumstances of a nature calculated to develop what was in her . The time for that ...
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... nature of her own circumstances checked the words on her tongue . " I cannot remain a burden upon you , " " But where quickly answered Mrs. Marion . can I go ? What shall I do ? " The last few words were spoken half to her- self , in a ...
... nature of her own circumstances checked the words on her tongue . " I cannot remain a burden upon you , " " But where quickly answered Mrs. Marion . can I go ? What shall I do ? " The last few words were spoken half to her- self , in a ...
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Page 82 - And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain...
Page 110 - The night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 8 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield. Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway, near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at.
Page 249 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 214 - He was thought to hold — he alone in England — the key of German and other Transcendentalisms ; knew the sublime secret of believing by the 'reason' what the ' understanding ' had been obliged to fling out as incredible...
Page 44 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 50 - The day is done; and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver!
Page 215 - Besides, it was talk not flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.
Page 215 - He began anywhere; you put some question to him, made some suggestive observation. Instead of answering this, or decidedly setting out towards answer of it, he would accumulate formidable apparatus, logical swim-bladders, transcendental life-preservers, and other precautionary and vehiculatory gear, for setting out...
Page 82 - Rigby was seated by her kitchen hearth in the twilight of this eventful day, and had just shaken the ashes out of a new pipe, when she heard a hurried tramp along the road. Yet it did not seem so much the tramp of human footsteps as the clatter of sticks or the rattling of dry bones.