The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1847 |
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Página 148
... Fairfax has come , and will join us as soon as he has changed his dress . " * The name was aristocratic ; and Mrs. Graham vouchsafed a smile , inquiring , " What Fairfax , Mr. Graham ? " " The eldest son of John Fairfax , who was member ...
... Fairfax has come , and will join us as soon as he has changed his dress . " * The name was aristocratic ; and Mrs. Graham vouchsafed a smile , inquiring , " What Fairfax , Mr. Graham ? " " The eldest son of John Fairfax , who was member ...
Página 149
... Fairfax would have nothing to do with the latter , and kept a position near the piano , especially while Margaret Graham was singing . W Her voice had not been much cultivated , but it was exceedingly sweet , and feeling and taste did ...
... Fairfax would have nothing to do with the latter , and kept a position near the piano , especially while Margaret Graham was singing . W Her voice had not been much cultivated , but it was exceedingly sweet , and feeling and taste did ...
Página 150
... Fairfax in my family , she must have become so within the last ten days , and the very idea of my uncle marrying is tantamount to a charge of lunacy , which you know is a disagreeable circumstance in a man's race . You forget how time ...
... Fairfax in my family , she must have become so within the last ten days , and the very idea of my uncle marrying is tantamount to a charge of lunacy , which you know is a disagreeable circumstance in a man's race . You forget how time ...
Página 151
... Fairfax was still at Mr. Graham's house . It was shooting one day , hunting another , sauntering a third ; and though Mr. Graham himself was obliged to be absent long on each morning upon the various matters of business in which he was ...
... Fairfax was still at Mr. Graham's house . It was shooting one day , hunting another , sauntering a third ; and though Mr. Graham himself was obliged to be absent long on each morning upon the various matters of business in which he was ...
Página 152
... Fairfax reminded him of a slight difference between them and all other machines ; that they felt , that they thought , that they loved , that they hated , that they had hearts as well as arms , an immortal spirit as well as a reasoning ...
... Fairfax reminded him of a slight difference between them and all other machines ; that they felt , that they thought , that they loved , that they hated , that they had hearts as well as arms , an immortal spirit as well as a reasoning ...
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Página 112 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Página 306 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe, and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 512 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Página 117 - When years, perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement ; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill and industry; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes are a tax not only upon industry, but upon that industry which feeds mankind ; upon that species of exertion which it is the aim of all wise laws to cherish and promote...
Página 335 - A further instance of economy was announced by the chancellor of the exchequer in the House of Commons last night, namely, the discontinuance of the officers
Página 520 - When I remember that the Creator, since light sprang out of darkness, has deigned to reveal Himself to His creature only in one land, that in that land He assumed a manly form, and met a human death, I feel persuaded that the country sanctified by such intercourse and such events must be endowed with marvellous and peculiar qualities, which man may not in all ages be competent to penetrate, but which, nevertheless, at all times exercise an irresistible influence upon his destiny. It is these qualities...
Página 160 - Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Página 124 - I hold that the greatest friend to man is labour; that knowledge without toil, if possible, were worthless; that toil in pursuit of knowledge is the best knowledge we can attain; that the continuous effort for fame is nobler than fame itself; that it is not wealth suddenly acquired which is deserving of homage, but the virtues which a man exercises in the slow pursuit of wealth, — the abilities so called forth, the self-denials so imposed ; in a word, that Labour and Patience are the true schoolmasters...
Página 500 - Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Página 117 - Lastly, amongst the negative qualities of our religion, as it came out of the hands of its Founder and his apostles, we may reckon its complete abstraction from all views either of ecclesiastical or civil policy ; or, to meet a language much in fashion with some men, from the politics either of priests or statesmen. Christ's declaration, that " his kingdom was not of this world...