The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1828 |
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... called him an ordinary - others thought him an extraordinary - man . Being at college , I oft received in- Now the Major was a vast favour - timations of the Major's health and ite with the ladies ; and I do not wonder at it . He was a ...
... called him an ordinary - others thought him an extraordinary - man . Being at college , I oft received in- Now the Major was a vast favour - timations of the Major's health and ite with the ladies ; and I do not wonder at it . He was a ...
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... called port , I grew excessively de- pressed -- ( I remember that evening well ! ) - and began to analyze , and curse , and continue to guzzle the wine , till my lips dyed black ; and I looked , for all the world , like Mr. Beverley in ...
... called port , I grew excessively de- pressed -- ( I remember that evening well ! ) - and began to analyze , and curse , and continue to guzzle the wine , till my lips dyed black ; and I looked , for all the world , like Mr. Beverley in ...
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... called on to resign the wife of his bosom , who went the way of all flesh , after a short but sharp illness . She had so fully realized all the calculations that had decided Andrew to choose her for his mate , that he regretted her loss ...
... called on to resign the wife of his bosom , who went the way of all flesh , after a short but sharp illness . She had so fully realized all the calculations that had decided Andrew to choose her for his mate , that he regretted her loss ...
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... called stinginess , is at present ( it must be owned ) greatly on the wane in civi- lized society ; it has been driven out of fashion either by ridicule and good sense , or by the spread of luxu- ry , or by supplying the mind with other ...
... called stinginess , is at present ( it must be owned ) greatly on the wane in civi- lized society ; it has been driven out of fashion either by ridicule and good sense , or by the spread of luxu- ry , or by supplying the mind with other ...
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... called the forlorn hope . 2. Business is also an affair of hab- it ; it calls for incessant and daily ap- plication ; and what was at first a matter of necessity to supply our wants , becomes often a matter of ne- cessity to employ our ...
... called the forlorn hope . 2. Business is also an affair of hab- it ; it calls for incessant and daily ap- plication ; and what was at first a matter of necessity to supply our wants , becomes often a matter of ne- cessity to employ our ...
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Page 86 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 87 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 107 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death ; and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 25 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 176 - It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page 108 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Page 247 - And how would his magnanimous spirit have been consoled amidst the afflictions of age and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered, and the nations, and tongues, and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere and bless his name to the latest posterity...
Page 250 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 246 - We have already hinted at a peculiar trait in his rich and varied character; that ardent and enthusiastic imagination which threw a magnificence over his whole course of thought. Herrera intimates that he had a talent for poetry, and some slight traces of it are on record in the book of prophecies which he presented to the Catholic sovereigns. But his poetical temperament is discernible throughout all his writings and in all his actions. It spread a golden and glorious world around him, and tinged...
Page 107 - I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.