Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 27Richard Bentley, 1850 - Literature |
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... hundred years ago ? They had their beginning , as well as you or me . " " True , Mr. Pogey , true . It's a thing to think of . But then the difficulty is the beginning . " " The difficulty , Rawlings , is the first guinea . Get your ...
... hundred years ago ? They had their beginning , as well as you or me . " " True , Mr. Pogey , true . It's a thing to think of . But then the difficulty is the beginning . " " The difficulty , Rawlings , is the first guinea . Get your ...
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... hundred yards of me , and the way he walked over that fence - stranger , he loomed up like a black mist , he seemed so large , and he walked right towards me . I raised myself , took deliberate aim , and fired . Instantly the varmint ...
... hundred yards of me , and the way he walked over that fence - stranger , he loomed up like a black mist , he seemed so large , and he walked right towards me . I raised myself , took deliberate aim , and fired . Instantly the varmint ...
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... hundred feet of where I stand , are collected nine hundred living souls . The mid- shipmen , after making too much noise , have dropped away ; and clever would he be who could find them . The mate of the watch is catching straws in the ...
... hundred feet of where I stand , are collected nine hundred living souls . The mid- shipmen , after making too much noise , have dropped away ; and clever would he be who could find them . The mate of the watch is catching straws in the ...
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... hundred to a thousand thanks are offered by adventurous individuals . " " I have noted these proffers , and thought what vast multitudes of grateful people there were in the world . " He paused for some seconds , looked at me fiercely ...
... hundred to a thousand thanks are offered by adventurous individuals . " " I have noted these proffers , and thought what vast multitudes of grateful people there were in the world . " He paused for some seconds , looked at me fiercely ...
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... hundreds for the very man you are dining with and so implicitly placing faith in . " " To see a gentleman of reputed honour and hectoring sensitiveness to the slightest whisper of defamation , laying the odds to a brother gentleman ...
... hundreds for the very man you are dining with and so implicitly placing faith in . " " To see a gentleman of reputed honour and hectoring sensitiveness to the slightest whisper of defamation , laying the odds to a brother gentleman ...
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Page 241 - CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are...
Page 524 - Whilst angels sing to thee their airs divine, And joy in an applause so great as thine, Equal society with them to hold, Thou need'st not make new songs, but say the old.
Page 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Page 279 - Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires ; The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame. When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name; My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind, Some emanation of th
Page 36 - gentlemen," running on without a person speaking, "perhaps you have been to New Orleans often; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in a crow's life. I am thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact. Some of the gentlemen thar called me green— well, perhaps I am, said I, but I...
Page 624 - ... to prevent a competitor from getting before them. The horses, on their part, are not without emulation, they tremble and are impatient, and are continually in motion: at last the signal once given, they strike, devour the course, hurrying along with unremitting velocity.
Page 503 - I penned what was most outrageously wrong. Strangely blinded that I was ! What, sir, is the object of mathematical science ? Magnitude and the proportions of magnitude. But then, sir, I had forgotten two magnitudes — I thought not of the littleness of time — I recklessly thought not of the greatness of eternity ! " " For a moment or two after the last words were spoken, a death-like stillness reigned throughout the house.
Page 39 - them ar "cedar stumps" is beets, and them ar " Indian mounds" ar tater hills.' As I expected, the crop was overgrown and useless: the sile is too rich, and planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. I had a good-sized sow killed in that same bottom land. The old thief stole an ear of corn, and took it down where she slept at night to eat. Well, she left a grain or two on the ground, and lay down on them: before morning, the corn shot up, and the percussion killed her dead. I don't plant any more: natur intended...
Page 141 - ... fait upon all subjects whatsoever. It was therefore in a tone of mingled indignation and contempt that he replied to the last remark of Simon. "Bob Smith says, does he? And who's Bob Smith? Much does Bob Smith know about Augusty ! He's been thar, I reckon! Slipped off yerly some mornin', when nobody warn't noticin', and got back afore night! It's only a hundred and fifty mile. Oh, yes, Bob Smith knows all about it ! / don't know nothin' about it ! / ain't never been to Augusty — I couldn't...
Page 241 - The tone and temper of his mind may be most fitly expressed in his own paraphrase of Horace : — " Climb at Court for me that will, Tottering Favour's pinnacle ; All I seek is to lie still ! Settled in some secret nest, In calm leisure let me rest ; And, far off the public stage, Pass away my silent age. Thus, when, without noise, unknown, I have lived out all my span, I. shall die without a groan, An old, honest countryman.