The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pagina 21
... true , that their energies are seldom employed so as to deserve the gratitude they expect in return for their labours . It is an indisput- able fact in the history of man , that every one desires to be happy in his own way , and that ...
... true , that their energies are seldom employed so as to deserve the gratitude they expect in return for their labours . It is an indisput- able fact in the history of man , that every one desires to be happy in his own way , and that ...
Pagina 22
... true , that the exclamations of the disappointed help powerfully to swell the cry against the ingrati- tude of the species . One instance , however , of such dishonest pre- tensions , cannot be denied , or treated as uncommon ; and that ...
... true , that the exclamations of the disappointed help powerfully to swell the cry against the ingrati- tude of the species . One instance , however , of such dishonest pre- tensions , cannot be denied , or treated as uncommon ; and that ...
Pagina 23
... true that the debt which a child incurs is rarely paid directly to the parent , but is indirectly returned in the like services rendered to the grandchild . But even here , the fault is not always wholly on one Distance and severity ...
... true that the debt which a child incurs is rarely paid directly to the parent , but is indirectly returned in the like services rendered to the grandchild . But even here , the fault is not always wholly on one Distance and severity ...
Pagina 35
... true Irish fashion , by beginning first to back ; but receiving three or four jerks in the mouth from the reins held in Tim's hands , and hearing a certain encouraging " checcuping , " he set off at a loose shambling pace , while a ...
... true Irish fashion , by beginning first to back ; but receiving three or four jerks in the mouth from the reins held in Tim's hands , and hearing a certain encouraging " checcuping , " he set off at a loose shambling pace , while a ...
Pagina 52
... true thing for the enjoyment of this sport , both as regards the safety of the riders , who may then go the ultra - pace without danger , and the tracking the game they are in pursuit of ; and should he be run into❞ as the fox ...
... true thing for the enjoyment of this sport , both as regards the safety of the riders , who may then go the ultra - pace without danger , and the tracking the game they are in pursuit of ; and should he be run into❞ as the fox ...
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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.