The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... England , by W. Sarsfield Taylor . - The French Stage and the French People , as exhibited in the Memoirs of M. Fleury . Edited , with Notes , by Theodore Hook , Esq . Six Months with the Chinese Expedition ; or , Leaves from a ...
... England , by W. Sarsfield Taylor . - The French Stage and the French People , as exhibited in the Memoirs of M. Fleury . Edited , with Notes , by Theodore Hook , Esq . Six Months with the Chinese Expedition ; or , Leaves from a ...
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... England she would not be allowed to in- dulge in it ; for said she , " Were I to take it in my head not to sing , I am given to understand that the people would certainly mob me , and per- haps break my bones . Now , I like to sleep in ...
... England she would not be allowed to in- dulge in it ; for said she , " Were I to take it in my head not to sing , I am given to understand that the people would certainly mob me , and per- haps break my bones . Now , I like to sleep in ...
Pagina 41
... England , the iron box with its contents , in all probability is somewhere embedded in the earth , at the bottom of the Bay of Biscay . Donovan read the newspaper paragraph to Mrs. and Miss O'Carrol , advising them to leave the result ...
... England , the iron box with its contents , in all probability is somewhere embedded in the earth , at the bottom of the Bay of Biscay . Donovan read the newspaper paragraph to Mrs. and Miss O'Carrol , advising them to leave the result ...
Pagina 42
... deciding in favour of the former . He says he has seen both , and is of opinion , that were hogs as abundant in England as they used to be in India , foxes would be much neglected . The variety of game in India is greater than it ( 42 )
... deciding in favour of the former . He says he has seen both , and is of opinion , that were hogs as abundant in England as they used to be in India , foxes would be much neglected . The variety of game in India is greater than it ( 42 )
Pagina 43
... England , whether for the amount of public money , betting , or sport , " thirty - eight races were run , matches included , which is quite equal in amount to our two October meetings at Newmarket ; although in the value of the stakes ...
... England , whether for the amount of public money , betting , or sport , " thirty - eight races were run , matches included , which is quite equal in amount to our two October meetings at Newmarket ; although in the value of the stakes ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 477 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Pagina 86 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Pagina 201 - Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water ; but the swallow alone, in general, washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together : in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny weather sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops...
Pagina 201 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Pagina 86 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Pagina 427 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Pagina 86 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Pagina 547 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!
Pagina 483 - The cuckoo's a fine bird, he sings as he flies; he brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies. He sucks little birds' eggs to make his voice clear; and when he sings „cuckoo!
Pagina 85 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.