The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pagina 5
... eyes , by bringing Mr. Francis Grindle here , still having lived with her now for several years , I know enough of her to know that this meeting and their staying in the same house together , will be a great trial to her , and so I ...
... eyes , by bringing Mr. Francis Grindle here , still having lived with her now for several years , I know enough of her to know that this meeting and their staying in the same house together , will be a great trial to her , and so I ...
Pagina 6
... eyes to what she thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she wished to succeed , still if the colonel was to be made aware of it , she , and she only , was the person to warn him . And ...
... eyes to what she thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she wished to succeed , still if the colonel was to be made aware of it , she , and she only , was the person to warn him . And ...
Pagina 8
... eyes , and there maintained their station , aided by the crémes and pomades which are so earnestly recommended to ladies , en decadence . " I say , colonel , " emphatically proceeded Mrs. Smylar , wiping away the drops , " that I feel ...
... eyes , and there maintained their station , aided by the crémes and pomades which are so earnestly recommended to ladies , en decadence . " I say , colonel , " emphatically proceeded Mrs. Smylar , wiping away the drops , " that I feel ...
Pagina 13
... eyes , there could be no need of anything like remonstrance or scolding , and if there were not he had no need of talking to her , and so the Be- hemoth went on wondering why Smylar should have led him into a scrape out of which he did ...
... eyes , there could be no need of anything like remonstrance or scolding , and if there were not he had no need of talking to her , and so the Be- hemoth went on wondering why Smylar should have led him into a scrape out of which he did ...
Pagina 16
... eyes rested on those of Emma . The colonel seemed resolved to be good - humoured ; he knew that he was well housed for the night , and although he might to a certain extent be beaten as to the object of his visit , its result proved ...
... eyes rested on those of Emma . The colonel seemed resolved to be good - humoured ; he knew that he was well housed for the night , and although he might to a certain extent be beaten as to the object of his visit , its result proved ...
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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.