New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 96E. W. Allen, 1852 |
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Page 127
... kind of square , which , doubtless , in the days of yore , was more fashionable than This is Park - place . There stood the once proud mansion of a metropolitan magnate , darkened and antiquated by the breath of time . In the downward ...
... kind of square , which , doubtless , in the days of yore , was more fashionable than This is Park - place . There stood the once proud mansion of a metropolitan magnate , darkened and antiquated by the breath of time . In the downward ...
Page 129
... kind but half - subdued tone of voice . " You are sent for , sir , " resumed Mrs. Parkins , after a short pause , " to attend a lady who now sleeps there " -pointing to the bed on the opposite side of the room- " and may God in his ...
... kind but half - subdued tone of voice . " You are sent for , sir , " resumed Mrs. Parkins , after a short pause , " to attend a lady who now sleeps there " -pointing to the bed on the opposite side of the room- " and may God in his ...
Page 133
... kind attentions . " I was not a little perplexed how to act . The lady had thrown out a deli- cate hint that her circumstances were limited . The odious coins I wanted not ; and if I had , it would have been impossible to desire them ...
... kind attentions . " I was not a little perplexed how to act . The lady had thrown out a deli- cate hint that her circumstances were limited . The odious coins I wanted not ; and if I had , it would have been impossible to desire them ...
Page 137
... kind of patriarchal existence , far from the vanities and temp- tations of politer life and a more advanced world , this little community , if it lacked the advantages of refinement and fashion , escaped many evils and moral corruptions ...
... kind of patriarchal existence , far from the vanities and temp- tations of politer life and a more advanced world , this little community , if it lacked the advantages of refinement and fashion , escaped many evils and moral corruptions ...
Page 139
... kind of consolatory strain , he muttered in conclusion , " It's no use arguing , women will have their own way , and the more you reason and explain , the more obstinate and wrong - headed they become ! " As Alfred grew up , he became ...
... kind of consolatory strain , he muttered in conclusion , " It's no use arguing , women will have their own way , and the more you reason and explain , the more obstinate and wrong - headed they become ! " As Alfred grew up , he became ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...