Spirit of the English Magazines, Volumen14Munroe and Francis, 1824 |
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... never accumu- lated any money . Every thing was squandered upon the dissipated life which he and his family pursued . At length at the baths of - the matter began to take an unfortunate turn . A violent passion for a beauti- ful young ...
... never accumu- lated any money . Every thing was squandered upon the dissipated life which he and his family pursued . At length at the baths of - the matter began to take an unfortunate turn . A violent passion for a beauti- ful young ...
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... NEVER BE STRUCK ! ' --- About sun - set it was found necessary to am- putate his arm above the elbow ; and on the day after the Brunswick's arri- val at Spithead , he was conveyed on shore at Portsmouth , where after bear- ing the most ...
... NEVER BE STRUCK ! ' --- About sun - set it was found necessary to am- putate his arm above the elbow ; and on the day after the Brunswick's arri- val at Spithead , he was conveyed on shore at Portsmouth , where after bear- ing the most ...
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... never catch any thing with that line . The peasant does not allow any per- son to admire or praise any thing he possesses , especially his flocks , his poultry , his corn , & c .; he is convinced that every thing so praised will perish ...
... never catch any thing with that line . The peasant does not allow any per- son to admire or praise any thing he possesses , especially his flocks , his poultry , his corn , & c .; he is convinced that every thing so praised will perish ...
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... never fear'd wars ; So fight on my boys , we shall beat them , " & c . The close of Jeremy Clarke's ( 1700 ) Song on " St George , " is worthy of a Greek Epigram . " All the world can't shew the like Saint . All the sacrifice that we ...
... never fear'd wars ; So fight on my boys , we shall beat them , " & c . The close of Jeremy Clarke's ( 1700 ) Song on " St George , " is worthy of a Greek Epigram . " All the world can't shew the like Saint . All the sacrifice that we ...
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... never suspected the lint merchant from the narrow street to occupy a place in her daughter's heart . She had looked on him merely as a wild youth , wooing every maiden that came within his view . This discovery , therefore , gave her no ...
... never suspected the lint merchant from the narrow street to occupy a place in her daughter's heart . She had looked on him merely as a wild youth , wooing every maiden that came within his view . This discovery , therefore , gave her no ...
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Página 100 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 102 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Página 103 - ... curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Página 102 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Página 209 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 166 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Página 103 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Página 166 - He may require to be repressed sometimes — aliquando sufflaminandus erat — but there is no raising her. You send her soup at dinner, and she begs to be helped — after the gentlemen. Mr. requests the honour of taking wine with her; she hesitates between Port and Madeira, and chooses the former — because he does. She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.
Página 43 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides...
Página 62 - If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.