New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 96E. W. Allen, 1852 |
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... person respecting whose history we are but little acquainted ; if we were , it might prove a strange narration . " " Has Mrs. Allen been long at her present residence ? " inquired I. " As near as I can calculate , about three months ...
... person respecting whose history we are but little acquainted ; if we were , it might prove a strange narration . " " Has Mrs. Allen been long at her present residence ? " inquired I. " As near as I can calculate , about three months ...
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... person Godfrey showed the good breeding it had been his lot to inherit . His tall and commanding figure , with finely moulded limbs and erect carriage ; those acute , strongly marked features , with quick eyes and aquiline nose ; the ...
... person Godfrey showed the good breeding it had been his lot to inherit . His tall and commanding figure , with finely moulded limbs and erect carriage ; those acute , strongly marked features , with quick eyes and aquiline nose ; the ...
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... person of property , and that's the long and short of it , or all my scheming and hopes are at an end . He is handsome , of good family , and every way eligible for making a good speculation . He must have one with a fortune ; he must ...
... person of property , and that's the long and short of it , or all my scheming and hopes are at an end . He is handsome , of good family , and every way eligible for making a good speculation . He must have one with a fortune ; he must ...
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... person of sense , that without a competency there is no happiness . To sigh and dream about pretty faces and such like nonsense , is ridiculous in a man of mind , and I am convinced , when Alfred grows up and knows something of his ...
... person of sense , that without a competency there is no happiness . To sigh and dream about pretty faces and such like nonsense , is ridiculous in a man of mind , and I am convinced , when Alfred grows up and knows something of his ...
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... person to be imperious , overbearing , and haughty - to carry out those false notions of exclusiveism and prerogative of order with which his mind was so strongly imbued . The fates had decided otherwise , and his capabilities of ...
... person to be imperious , overbearing , and haughty - to carry out those false notions of exclusiveism and prerogative of order with which his mind was so strongly imbued . The fates had decided otherwise , and his capabilities of ...
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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...