The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., Volumen1Tobias Merton (pseud) 1824 |
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... head or to the brain , as Jacques Ferrand endeavours to prove . The peculiar susceptibility , and warm temperament of Petrarch , indeed , eaused him to cherish a glowing and unwearied though unfortunate attachment for twenty years , to ...
... head or to the brain , as Jacques Ferrand endeavours to prove . The peculiar susceptibility , and warm temperament of Petrarch , indeed , eaused him to cherish a glowing and unwearied though unfortunate attachment for twenty years , to ...
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... head , and passed silently on . " I could bear it no longer . Salt streams burst forth from my eyes , and with a broken heart I hurried tremblingly back into darkness . The plates by George Cruickshank are almost enough to persuade one ...
... head , and passed silently on . " I could bear it no longer . Salt streams burst forth from my eyes , and with a broken heart I hurried tremblingly back into darkness . The plates by George Cruickshank are almost enough to persuade one ...
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... heads . " Had Messrs . Hum- boldt and Bompland estimated the exact height of the Himalayan mountains , they might have spared themselves the toil and exertion of ascending 19,000 feet to dance on the summit of Chimborazo or of Co ...
... heads . " Had Messrs . Hum- boldt and Bompland estimated the exact height of the Himalayan mountains , they might have spared themselves the toil and exertion of ascending 19,000 feet to dance on the summit of Chimborazo or of Co ...
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... head to foot as these words were trembling upon his lips . She , too , threw her eyes on the ground , and a deep glow rushed over her face ; but that was chased instantly by a fixed and solemn paleness , and her gaze once more met his ...
... head to foot as these words were trembling upon his lips . She , too , threw her eyes on the ground , and a deep glow rushed over her face ; but that was chased instantly by a fixed and solemn paleness , and her gaze once more met his ...
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... head upon her knees he drew her hand to his lips , and kissed it , and wept upon it , and whispered as none ever ... heads , or fall down upon the ground , or throw themselves against the walls . So that the dead man is the most happy of ...
... head upon her knees he drew her hand to his lips , and kissed it , and wept upon it , and whispered as none ever ... heads , or fall down upon the ground , or throw themselves against the walls . So that the dead man is the most happy of ...
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Página 73 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Página 358 - twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold: Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Página 358 - Twas, on those little silver feet! With what a pretty, skipping grace It oft would challenge me the race ! And when 't had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay; For it was nimbler, much, than hinds, And trod as if on the four winds.
Página 32 - Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue. But now the day was come, the day, the hour; Now, frowning, smiling, for the hundredth...
Página 414 - I will delate you for a warlock to the privy council!' said Sir John. 'I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch ! ' 'I intend to delate mysell to the presbytery,' said Steenie, ' and tell them all I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
Página 225 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Página 28 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Página 100 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Página 405 - Court, wi' the king's ain sword ; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it ; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other. Redgauntlet was aye for the strong hand ; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tarn Dalyell's.
Página 416 - Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute. Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o...