The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1842 - English literature |
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... μ . 346 No ! Verses on November . By Thomas Hood , Esq . 354 Ricciarda de ' Selvaggia ; a Legend of Pistoia . By Elizabeth Youatt A Morning Thought . By Thomas Hood , Esq . 355 361 Martha Beynon : a Story Boz in America . By.
... μ . 346 No ! Verses on November . By Thomas Hood , Esq . 354 Ricciarda de ' Selvaggia ; a Legend of Pistoia . By Elizabeth Youatt A Morning Thought . By Thomas Hood , Esq . 355 361 Martha Beynon : a Story Boz in America . By.
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... - count of their peculiar graces of style , Mrs. Allen Barnaby received no less than eleven other letters in the course of the morning which followed the triumphant exhibition of her powers as an author 18 The Barnabys in America .
... - count of their peculiar graces of style , Mrs. Allen Barnaby received no less than eleven other letters in the course of the morning which followed the triumphant exhibition of her powers as an author 18 The Barnabys in America .
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... morning I had passed . " " " Not sick , I hope ? " returned her new friend with very sincere anxiety . " I'm sure I wouldn't have you take a spell of sickness just now for more than I'll say . " " You are very kind ! Oh no ! Not sick ...
... morning I had passed . " " " Not sick , I hope ? " returned her new friend with very sincere anxiety . " I'm sure I wouldn't have you take a spell of sickness just now for more than I'll say . " " You are very kind ! Oh no ! Not sick ...
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... morning to night , so that they do little or nothing but eat , drink , sleep , and spit for themselves , -I am told that there isn't scarcely one of ' em who doesn't , more or less , try to keep themselves awake by play . Now can you ...
... morning to night , so that they do little or nothing but eat , drink , sleep , and spit for themselves , -I am told that there isn't scarcely one of ' em who doesn't , more or less , try to keep themselves awake by play . Now can you ...
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... morning that any opportunity occurred for her to converse with her still most highly - favoured friend , Mrs. Colonel Beauchamp , upon the important subject of their approaching departure . A very considerable change had taken place in ...
... morning that any opportunity occurred for her to converse with her still most highly - favoured friend , Mrs. Colonel Beauchamp , upon the important subject of their approaching departure . A very considerable change had taken place in ...
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Page 16 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 493 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 269 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers. The composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Page 493 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 354 - em! No knowing 'em! No travelling at all - no locomotion, No inkling of the way - no notion 'No go' - by land or ocean No mail - no post No news from any foreign coast No Park - no Ring - no afternoon gentility - . •, No company - no nobility No warmth, no cheerfulness, no...
Page 354 - No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day — No sky — no earthly view — No distance looking blue — No road — no street — no
Page 388 - It is my lady ; Oh! it is my love : Oh, that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing : what of that ? Her eye discourses : I will answer it.
Page 364 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm i Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 493 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 289 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.