Robinson's Magazine: A Weekly Repository of Original Papers and Selections from English Magazines, Volume 1Joseph Robinson, 1818 |
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... hand writing- " I am ly touched the traveller's shoulder . in danger -- money will save me - you But as the ascent grew wider , and may trust the bearer " - " Dog ! " he the light of a rising moon shewed exclaimed , losing his ...
... hand writing- " I am ly touched the traveller's shoulder . in danger -- money will save me - you But as the ascent grew wider , and may trust the bearer " - " Dog ! " he the light of a rising moon shewed exclaimed , losing his ...
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... hand , and would robber . But Fraser had been a have given it to the officer of jus- faithful messenger , not a daring im- tice , but he had already crossed the postor ; and he sacrificed his life in stream . When they reached the ...
... hand , and would robber . But Fraser had been a have given it to the officer of jus- faithful messenger , not a daring im- tice , but he had already crossed the postor ; and he sacrificed his life in stream . When they reached the ...
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... hand in mine ; the blush Of meek and maiden perturbation Came o'er her features , like the flush Which crimsons the carnation , I caught her gaze - it thrilled my heart- In silence eloquently pleading ; From her my thoughts could not ...
... hand in mine ; the blush Of meek and maiden perturbation Came o'er her features , like the flush Which crimsons the carnation , I caught her gaze - it thrilled my heart- In silence eloquently pleading ; From her my thoughts could not ...
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... hand the silver - blossom'd bower , and , whether lofty or trivial , inter- And purpled mead ; herself a fairer flower ; esting or repulsive , are clothed , by Sudden , unseen , amid the twilight glade , the same unsparing hand , in the ...
... hand the silver - blossom'd bower , and , whether lofty or trivial , inter- And purpled mead ; herself a fairer flower ; esting or repulsive , are clothed , by Sudden , unseen , amid the twilight glade , the same unsparing hand , in the ...
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... hand , by a direct refusal ; their wheat or other grain . " and their friends ( the body of the As Franklin was ... hands of the Governour , and " In the conduct of my newspa- appropriated it for the purchase of per , I carefully ...
... hand , by a direct refusal ; their wheat or other grain . " and their friends ( the body of the As Franklin was ... hands of the Governour , and " In the conduct of my newspa- appropriated it for the purchase of per , I carefully ...
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Page 157 - Chancellor held on his course towards that unknown part of the world, and sailed so far that he came at last to the place where he found no night at all, but a continual light and brightness of the sun shining clearly upon the huge and mighty sea.
Page 90 - Tis reason a man that will have a wife should be at the charge of her trinkets, and pay all the scores she sets on him. He that will keep a monkey, 'tis fit he should pay for the glasses he breaks.
Page 30 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
Page 29 - And up and down the long canals they go, And under the Rialto shoot along, By night and day, all paces, swift or slow, And round the theatres, a sable throng, They wait in their dusk livery of woe, But not to them do...
Page 93 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Page 320 - Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat: This space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot! What dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear Have left one trace of record here. Beneath this moldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye; But start not at the dismal void.
Page 320 - Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer...
Page 213 - I fell into the gloom to which from my infancy I had been occasionally subject. I had a family for whom I had no dinner, and a landlady for whom I had no rent. I had gone abroad in despondence — I returned home almost in desperation.
Page 320 - But start not at the dismal void: If social love that eye employed...
Page 272 - Then said the Rose, with deepened glow, " On me another grace bestow ;" The spirit paused in silent thought, — What grace was there that flower had not...