The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1847 - English literature |
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... for comfort , and a little for taste , each labourer of Mr. Graham possessed a home ; certainly not superior to that which every industrious man through the land ought to be able to command , but very 6 Margaret Graham .
... for comfort , and a little for taste , each labourer of Mr. Graham possessed a home ; certainly not superior to that which every industrious man through the land ought to be able to command , but very 6 Margaret Graham .
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... cottage , and no such convenience was to be found in that of Ben Halliday . All the beds he possessed had their tenants , and therefore to lodge the stranger seemed quite out of the question . While he was pondering Margaret Graham . 11.
... cottage , and no such convenience was to be found in that of Ben Halliday . All the beds he possessed had their tenants , and therefore to lodge the stranger seemed quite out of the question . While he was pondering Margaret Graham . 11.
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... possession of a piece of important information . A meeting of the mountain ( the opposition ) took place yesterday morn- ing , upon the subject of the health of the regent ; a long discussion . member asserted that his royal highness ...
... possession of a piece of important information . A meeting of the mountain ( the opposition ) took place yesterday morn- ing , upon the subject of the health of the regent ; a long discussion . member asserted that his royal highness ...
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... possession of my mind , I hurried to the chamber containing his portrait and Lady Margaret's ; and now , enlightened by Dr. Hipsley's revelations , how different an interest did they assume from the day when , guided by old Bernard , I ...
... possession of my mind , I hurried to the chamber containing his portrait and Lady Margaret's ; and now , enlightened by Dr. Hipsley's revelations , how different an interest did they assume from the day when , guided by old Bernard , I ...
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... possessed the eye , the hand , the voice of an artist . He was something superhuman - something too bright - too good for this world of sordid care . ' وو It needed no great effort to render my poor uncle conscious of my sym- pathy ...
... possessed the eye , the hand , the voice of an artist . He was something superhuman - something too bright - too good for this world of sordid care . ' وو It needed no great effort to render my poor uncle conscious of my sym- pathy ...
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Page 112 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 306 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe, and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 512 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 117 - When years, perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement ; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill and industry; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes are a tax not only upon industry, but upon that industry which feeds mankind ; upon that species of exertion which it is the aim of all wise laws to cherish and promote...
Page 335 - A further instance of economy was announced by the chancellor of the exchequer in the House of Commons last night, namely, the discontinuance of the officers
Page 520 - When I remember that the Creator, since light sprang out of darkness, has deigned to reveal Himself to His creature only in one land, that in that land He assumed a manly form, and met a human death, I feel persuaded that the country sanctified by such intercourse and such events must be endowed with marvellous and peculiar qualities, which man may not in all ages be competent to penetrate, but which, nevertheless, at all times exercise an irresistible influence upon his destiny. It is these qualities...
Page 160 - Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Page 124 - I hold that the greatest friend to man is labour; that knowledge without toil, if possible, were worthless; that toil in pursuit of knowledge is the best knowledge we can attain; that the continuous effort for fame is nobler than fame itself; that it is not wealth suddenly acquired which is deserving of homage, but the virtues which a man exercises in the slow pursuit of wealth, — the abilities so called forth, the self-denials so imposed ; in a word, that Labour and Patience are the true schoolmasters...
Page 500 - Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Page 117 - Lastly, amongst the negative qualities of our religion, as it came out of the hands of its Founder and his apostles, we may reckon its complete abstraction from all views either of ecclesiastical or civil policy ; or, to meet a language much in fashion with some men, from the politics either of priests or statesmen. Christ's declaration, that " his kingdom was not of this world...