The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1825 - American periodicals |
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... took a better polish . ' " In noticing the aptitude of the ignorant to seize on the minor parts of excellence , I must record the as- tuteness of a sailor , who , gazing on a ship , the name and head of which were the Queen , muttered ...
... took a better polish . ' " In noticing the aptitude of the ignorant to seize on the minor parts of excellence , I must record the as- tuteness of a sailor , who , gazing on a ship , the name and head of which were the Queen , muttered ...
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... took the picture away with him , and had the satisfaction to find , that by this scandalous trick he had indeed procured a genuine and very saleable painting of Vandyke's . " Soon after Goldsmith had con- tracted with the booksellers ...
... took the picture away with him , and had the satisfaction to find , that by this scandalous trick he had indeed procured a genuine and very saleable painting of Vandyke's . " Soon after Goldsmith had con- tracted with the booksellers ...
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... took place , while every im- pression was yet fresh upon my mind . Lord Byron is not a man of to - day . He belongs as much to the future , as to the present , and it is no common event in one's life to have it to say , I have had an ...
... took place , while every im- pression was yet fresh upon my mind . Lord Byron is not a man of to - day . He belongs as much to the future , as to the present , and it is no common event in one's life to have it to say , I have had an ...
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... took an opportunity of complaining , that some of his poems had been treated unfairly , and assail- ed with a degree of virulence they did not deserve . They are not intended , he remarked , to be theological works , but merely works of ...
... took an opportunity of complaining , that some of his poems had been treated unfairly , and assail- ed with a degree of virulence they did not deserve . They are not intended , he remarked , to be theological works , but merely works of ...
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... took pains to correct himself . He was al- luding to an invitation to dinner that had been given to him by an English gentleman in Genoa . " I did not go , for I did not wish to make any new -I did not feel that I could depart from a ...
... took pains to correct himself . He was al- luding to an invitation to dinner that had been given to him by an English gentleman in Genoa . " I did not go , for I did not wish to make any new -I did not feel that I could depart from a ...
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Page 379 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 258 - Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit ? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears ? No, no ; they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Page 479 - Was on the streams of Guadalquiver, To gold converting, one by one, The ripples of the mighty river, Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheated, — A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair ! She stooped, and wrote upon the sand, Just as the loving sun was going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, I could have sworn 't was silver flowing. Her words were three, and not one more, What could Diana's motto be ? The siren wrote upon the...
Page 479 - When words come down like dews unsought With gleams of deep enthusiast thought, And fancy in her heaven flies free — They come, my love, they come from thee.
Page 112 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Page 263 - O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away...
Page 340 - is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out.
Page 340 - may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" " Not in the least," replied the pendulum; " it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions.
Page 112 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Page 50 - ... repressed with a smile the hopes of his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen increased.