The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 36-37Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... DEATH - BED . BY THE HON . JULIA A. MAYNARD . -- [ John Calvin , the celebrated Reformer , was born in Picardy , in the year 1509. He originally studied civil law ; but turning his thoughts to divinity , he found the tenets he professed ...
... DEATH - BED . BY THE HON . JULIA A. MAYNARD . -- [ John Calvin , the celebrated Reformer , was born in Picardy , in the year 1509. He originally studied civil law ; but turning his thoughts to divinity , he found the tenets he professed ...
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... death , he sat alone thinking of her , and pourtraying " an angel on his tablets . " The influence which she had over him was as powerful in death as it had been in life - still to be worthy of loving , and of joining one so good and ...
... death , he sat alone thinking of her , and pourtraying " an angel on his tablets . " The influence which she had over him was as powerful in death as it had been in life - still to be worthy of loving , and of joining one so good and ...
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death had been on her already . The most cruel forebodings tortured him by day and by night ; his dreams represented her as dying or dead , The dreaded news reached him - Laura was dead ! An attack of the plague had carried her off in ...
death had been on her already . The most cruel forebodings tortured him by day and by night ; his dreams represented her as dying or dead , The dreaded news reached him - Laura was dead ! An attack of the plague had carried her off in ...
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... death - pangs she must give no voice : Abandoned oft , because forbid to seek ! ' " you " Rather severe , " said Mr. Anson . " It shows the difference between a man's and a woman's treatment of the same subject . Ernest expressed the ...
... death - pangs she must give no voice : Abandoned oft , because forbid to seek ! ' " you " Rather severe , " said Mr. Anson . " It shows the difference between a man's and a woman's treatment of the same subject . Ernest expressed the ...
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... death , the high - born maiden answers with a touch of her brother's pride , " I choose the sword , for that is an honourable as she had stood in silent resolve , before each There follows the thrilling conclusion . Even death . " And ...
... death , the high - born maiden answers with a touch of her brother's pride , " I choose the sword , for that is an honourable as she had stood in silent resolve , before each There follows the thrilling conclusion . Even death . " And ...
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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.