Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumen35John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1855 |
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... once the superior safety of its northern bank , the an- nual average of fires on the latter being only 20 against 36 on the southern side . For It will be seen that this estimate in a great measure inverts the order of " dangerous ...
... once the superior safety of its northern bank , the an- nual average of fires on the latter being only 20 against 36 on the southern side . For It will be seen that this estimate in a great measure inverts the order of " dangerous ...
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... Once more the wheel of fortune flies round , and this time is drawn -- a blank ! Note yon- der man , who has been straining and stretch- ing his neck to see the number exhihited , or hear it pronounced - he is the possessor of the ...
... Once more the wheel of fortune flies round , and this time is drawn -- a blank ! Note yon- der man , who has been straining and stretch- ing his neck to see the number exhihited , or hear it pronounced - he is the possessor of the ...
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... once the attribute of genius . It is the product of that delicate susceptibility , bestowed only on the finer spirits , which makes the soul respond at once to all the touches of nature , as the strings of an Eo- lian harp murmur to ...
... once the attribute of genius . It is the product of that delicate susceptibility , bestowed only on the finer spirits , which makes the soul respond at once to all the touches of nature , as the strings of an Eo- lian harp murmur to ...
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... once her salons are crowded with all the kind . She was looked on as an interloper in distinguished men of England ; she begins the house - as one who interfered with the to recognize that she , too , has genius ; and , prospects and ...
... once her salons are crowded with all the kind . She was looked on as an interloper in distinguished men of England ; she begins the house - as one who interfered with the to recognize that she , too , has genius ; and , prospects and ...
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... once . By this event her ladyship found herself reduced to an income of only £ 2,000 a - year , in place of £ 30,000 ; and be- sides , she really seemed to regret her hus- band's death from personal affection for him . In her ...
... once . By this event her ladyship found herself reduced to an income of only £ 2,000 a - year , in place of £ 30,000 ; and be- sides , she really seemed to regret her hus- band's death from personal affection for him . In her ...
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Página 476 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Página 426 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Página 457 - I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 174 - Strong the earthy odour grows — I smell the mould above the rose ! Welcome Life ! the Spirit strives ! Strength returns and hope revives ; Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn Fly like shadows at the morn, — O'er the earth there comes a bloom ; Sunny light for sullen gloom, Warm perfume for vapour cold — I smell the rose above the mould ! April, 1845.
Página 540 - A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet, It is the distant and the dim That we are sick to greet...
Página 477 - These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.
Página 478 - Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...
Página 476 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.
Página 145 - Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanish'd ; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language...
Página 498 - Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!