New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 164Henry Colburn, 1879 |
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... speak to casually , but that is all ; my landlady , if you like to ask her , can tell you about my habits while I have been in her house . " The address was somewhere in Bloomsbury , and the woman's name , though familiar , quite ...
... speak to casually , but that is all ; my landlady , if you like to ask her , can tell you about my habits while I have been in her house . " The address was somewhere in Bloomsbury , and the woman's name , though familiar , quite ...
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... speak , but owing to her imperfect articulation , I utterly failed to comprehend what she was saying ; a piece of stupidity on my part that seemed to greatly irritate the old lady , who shrieked at me , and shook her wrinkled and bony ...
... speak , but owing to her imperfect articulation , I utterly failed to comprehend what she was saying ; a piece of stupidity on my part that seemed to greatly irritate the old lady , who shrieked at me , and shook her wrinkled and bony ...
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... speak , our bow to the public , and intimated that the series had closed . Since that time , however , we have been given to understand from an authori- tative quarter that a continuance of the sketches would be far from unwelcome to ...
... speak , our bow to the public , and intimated that the series had closed . Since that time , however , we have been given to understand from an authori- tative quarter that a continuance of the sketches would be far from unwelcome to ...
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... speak forth manly words of truth and soberness , would perhaps be missed as much as any figure in it . XXVII . SIR WILLIAM EDMONETONE . " THE Admiral , " as he is usually termed , is decidedly the oddity , par excellence , of the House ...
... speak forth manly words of truth and soberness , would perhaps be missed as much as any figure in it . XXVII . SIR WILLIAM EDMONETONE . " THE Admiral , " as he is usually termed , is decidedly the oddity , par excellence , of the House ...
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... speaking a word , close up to the infant . The old woman held up her fingers . " You must not kiss your little sister yet , deary , for fear you should wake her , " said the woman , with an important air peculiar to her office . Honoria ...
... speaking a word , close up to the infant . The old woman held up her fingers . " You must not kiss your little sister yet , deary , for fear you should wake her , " said the woman , with an important air peculiar to her office . Honoria ...
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Page 568 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 93 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 646 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Page 685 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 218 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 331 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! I TRAVELLED among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea ; Nor.
Page 705 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Page 416 - That she was a lady, inwards and outwards, from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet, in head, in heart, and in mind, a lady by education and a lady by nature, a lady also by birth in spite of that deficiency respecting her grandfather, I hereby state as a fact — meo periculo.
Page 406 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 405 - That not a natural flower can grow on earth, Without a flower upon the spiritual side, Substantial, archetypal, all a-glow With blossoming causes,— not so far away, That we, whose spirit-sense is somewhat cleared, May not catch something of the bloom and breath,- Too vaguely apprehended, though indeed Still apprehended, consciously or not.