The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1842 - English literature |
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... Quakers said it is - even if we had not come across a more striking proof it , namely a man of war's launch with a middy and twelve hands in her , all as fast as tops and as hard to be waked up as Dr. Watts's sluggard . Luckily there ...
... Quakers said it is - even if we had not come across a more striking proof it , namely a man of war's launch with a middy and twelve hands in her , all as fast as tops and as hard to be waked up as Dr. Watts's sluggard . Luckily there ...
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... quaker fairy had been her tire - woman , so guiltless of the contamination of human fingers did she look . She bent her pretty little head four times successively , while her light blue eyes , which shone with a sort of gentle moonlight ...
... quaker fairy had been her tire - woman , so guiltless of the contamination of human fingers did she look . She bent her pretty little head four times successively , while her light blue eyes , which shone with a sort of gentle moonlight ...
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... Quaker costume ; the ladies being all ha- bited with more attention to delicacy and neatness than either to fashion or splendour , and the gentlemen having little or no mixture of the chain and pin species of decoration which usually ...
... Quaker costume ; the ladies being all ha- bited with more attention to delicacy and neatness than either to fashion or splendour , and the gentlemen having little or no mixture of the chain and pin species of decoration which usually ...
Page 317
... quaker gentleman on her right , 66 May I ask you , sir , to be kind enough to tell me the name of the lady opposite to me ? " " Sarah Tomkins ; " was the concise reply , which certainly offered as little opportunity for continuing the ...
... quaker gentleman on her right , 66 May I ask you , sir , to be kind enough to tell me the name of the lady opposite to me ? " " Sarah Tomkins ; " was the concise reply , which certainly offered as little opportunity for continuing the ...
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The quaker gentleman on hearing these words crossed his knife and . fork upon his plate , and turned himself round so as to command the side front of Mrs. Allen Barnaby's person . On perceiving the ad- vantage she had gained , she ...
The quaker gentleman on hearing these words crossed his knife and . fork upon his plate , and turned himself round so as to command the side front of Mrs. Allen Barnaby's person . On perceiving the ad- vantage she had gained , she ...
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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.