New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 66Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1842 |
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... present time . By Mrs. Elwood , author of “ An Overland Journey to India . " 2 vols . - Heath's Book of Beauty for 1842. Edited by the Countess of Blessington . - Phineas Quiddy.- Norway and her Laplands in 1841 555 to 566 THE NEW ...
... present time . By Mrs. Elwood , author of “ An Overland Journey to India . " 2 vols . - Heath's Book of Beauty for 1842. Edited by the Countess of Blessington . - Phineas Quiddy.- Norway and her Laplands in 1841 555 to 566 THE NEW ...
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... present writing , which is to give you an invitation , and your good family all of them with you , to a grand dinner ... presents her grati- fied compliments to the highly - gifted and superior - minded Mrs. Allen Barnaby , and in ...
... present writing , which is to give you an invitation , and your good family all of them with you , to a grand dinner ... presents her grati- fied compliments to the highly - gifted and superior - minded Mrs. Allen Barnaby , and in ...
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... present , because I don't believe I could enjoy it more if I was ten times a queen than I do now , seeing all those people who own themselves that they have always hated us English like poison , seeing them all ready to fall down and ...
... present , because I don't believe I could enjoy it more if I was ten times a queen than I do now , seeing all those people who own themselves that they have always hated us English like poison , seeing them all ready to fall down and ...
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... present conscious must betray itself were she to enter upon the sub- ject immediately with any one - unless , indeed , it were her lawful hus- band and partner of her greatness . " I will lie down ! " she murmured to herself , as she ...
... present conscious must betray itself were she to enter upon the sub- ject immediately with any one - unless , indeed , it were her lawful hus- band and partner of her greatness . " I will lie down ! " she murmured to herself , as she ...
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... present , except herself , seemed without some feeling of curiosity as to the contents of the despatches that Madame Tornorino was thus making public . Even Mr. Egerton , though hitherto he had not displayed any very strong feeling of ...
... present , except herself , seemed without some feeling of curiosity as to the contents of the despatches that Madame Tornorino was thus making public . Even Mr. Egerton , though hitherto he had not displayed any very strong feeling of ...
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Page 489 - Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Page 267 - 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 360 - 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; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 344 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 489 - 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 158 - Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the Book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
Page 258 - A place for every thing, and every thing in its place," is the •veteran bachelor's fundamental law, and the first canon of the anchorite of chambers.
Page 522 - And now." cried he, making us all sit down again, " where are my rascals of servants ? I sha'n't be in time for the ball ; besides...
Page 489 - 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 8 - Bedew'd with tears of gum— Fierce agonies that ought to yell, But, like the marble, dumb. Nay, yonder blasted Elm that stands So like a man of sin, Who, frantic, flings his arms abroad To feel the worm within— For all that gesture, so intense, It makes no sort of din! An universal silence reigns In rugged bark or peel, Except that very trunk which rings Beneath the biting steel— 433 ! Meanwhile the Woodman plies his axe With unrelenting zeal!