New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 147Henry Colburn, 1870 |
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... nature of Captain Land- grave's business . " He is not very well off , then ? " I ventured to say . " Well off ? Oh yes , he does very well as businesses go . And lately he has come into some property , and has paid off some out ...
... nature of Captain Land- grave's business . " He is not very well off , then ? " I ventured to say . " Well off ? Oh yes , he does very well as businesses go . And lately he has come into some property , and has paid off some out ...
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... Nature has put on her richest garmens , and lies before you in wild simplicity , unadorned by art . Turning to the court - yard , the scene is changed . Old Dick , the turkey - cock , who for some time has been monarch of all he surveys ...
... Nature has put on her richest garmens , and lies before you in wild simplicity , unadorned by art . Turning to the court - yard , the scene is changed . Old Dick , the turkey - cock , who for some time has been monarch of all he surveys ...
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... nature of a dream depends upon the state of the bodily health , and it is certainly singular that the state of the stomach be what it may , we shall at one time have pleasant dreams , and at another those which are painful . We even ...
... nature of a dream depends upon the state of the bodily health , and it is certainly singular that the state of the stomach be what it may , we shall at one time have pleasant dreams , and at another those which are painful . We even ...
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... nature of things is changed in this respect , but only the mistaken inter- pretations . These were continued to a ... natural , " the " divine , " and the " demoniacal , " and in Artimoderus , Cardan , and Sam- biscus , whole volumes may ...
... nature of things is changed in this respect , but only the mistaken inter- pretations . These were continued to a ... natural , " the " divine , " and the " demoniacal , " and in Artimoderus , Cardan , and Sam- biscus , whole volumes may ...
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... nature he always ex- hibits , depicts it with a clearness and force that would seem to imply he was happy to be awakened out of a scene to which the bare recollection was far less vivid than the imagery of his dream had been in its ...
... nature he always ex- hibits , depicts it with a clearness and force that would seem to imply he was happy to be awakened out of a scene to which the bare recollection was far less vivid than the imagery of his dream had been in its ...
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Page 367 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 362 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 690 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen. As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee.
Page 670 - Fag. I beg pardon, sir; I beg pardon. But, with submission, a lie is nothing unless one supports it. Sir, whenever I draw on my invention for a good current lie, I always forge indorsements as well as the bill. Abs. Well, take care you don't hurt your credit, by offering too much security.
Page 145 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 329 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 28 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 725 - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir Mr.
Page 205 - Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended...