The New Monthly Magazine, Volumen104

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Chapman and Hall (Adams and Francis; E.W. Allen), 1855

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Página 231 - Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady Frances...
Página 163 - ... new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid, and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 25 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Página 62 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Página 61 - See' ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Página 159 - In any well-used Copy of the Seasons the Book generally opens of itself with the rhapsody on love, or with one of the stories (perhaps Damon and...
Página 161 - Thee disposed into congenial soils Stands each attractive plant, and sucks and swells The juicy tide ; a twining mass of tubes.
Página 359 - Miss , too, the other day, walking round the grounds at Combe Florey, exclaimed, ' Oh, why do you chain up that fine Newfoundland dog, Mr. Smith?' ' Because it has a passion for breakfasting on parish boys.' ' Parish boys !' she exclaimed, ' does he really eat boys, Mr. Smith?' 'Yes, he devours them, buttons and all.
Página 231 - April, the open fields that s-kirt the metropolis were filled with an incredible number of people assembled in chairs, in chaises, and coaches, as well as on foot, who waited in the most fearful suspense until morning, and the return of day disproved the truth of the dreaded prophecy. Then their fears vanished : they returned to their respective habitations in a transport of joy; and were soon reconciled to their abandoned vices, which they seemed to resume with redoubled affection, and once more...
Página 351 - A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith By his Daughter, LADY HOLLAND. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by MRS. AUSTIN.

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