The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pagina 6
... give them the ruddiness which the gal- lant and disagreeable Behemoth was so frequently inclined to mar . Smylar had unquestionably taken a deciding step in opening Miss Harris's letter , which it is quite needless to observe she meant ...
... give them the ruddiness which the gal- lant and disagreeable Behemoth was so frequently inclined to mar . Smylar had unquestionably taken a deciding step in opening Miss Harris's letter , which it is quite needless to observe she meant ...
Pagina 7
... give them a tint , " it may be so ; and it may be that your friends the Amershams think that the better match of the two . " " That'll do , " said the colonel . " Can't make you out . One day the Amershams are all for one match ...
... give them a tint , " it may be so ; and it may be that your friends the Amershams think that the better match of the two . " " That'll do , " said the colonel . " Can't make you out . One day the Amershams are all for one match ...
Pagina 10
... give you one account of them at one time , and another account at another , go - see - and judge for yourself : there , that's my ad- vice . " " Is it ? " said the colonel ; and he began to look as people who have intellects look , when ...
... give you one account of them at one time , and another account at another , go - see - and judge for yourself : there , that's my ad- vice . " " Is it ? " said the colonel ; and he began to look as people who have intellects look , when ...
Pagina 18
... give way to newer impressions , and if ( in the common phrase ) eaten bread should be soon forgotten . It is quite consonant , also , with the same great law of vital action , that the " memory of the heart " ( as the French deaf and ...
... give way to newer impressions , and if ( in the common phrase ) eaten bread should be soon forgotten . It is quite consonant , also , with the same great law of vital action , that the " memory of the heart " ( as the French deaf and ...
Pagina 20
... give it . So cogent indeed is this inference , that it is commonly extended even to those advisers who , in despair of success on better terms , pass off their advice wrapped up with creature comforts , as the Irishman passed his bad ...
... give it . So cogent indeed is this inference , that it is commonly extended even to those advisers who , in despair of success on better terms , pass off their advice wrapped up with creature comforts , as the Irishman passed his bad ...
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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.