The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volumen3John Timbs 1840 |
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... Staircases in the Salt Tower , ( two , ) 232 , 233 Trinity Church , Gray's Inn Road , 49 Ungka - puti , the , 273 Wool and Hair of Animals , ( four , ) 57 Yew - tree in Harlington Churchyard , 145 THE AUTHOR OF " ROOKWOOD , ” " CRICHTON ,
... Staircases in the Salt Tower , ( two , ) 232 , 233 Trinity Church , Gray's Inn Road , 49 Ungka - puti , the , 273 Wool and Hair of Animals , ( four , ) 57 Yew - tree in Harlington Churchyard , 145 THE AUTHOR OF " ROOKWOOD , ” " CRICHTON ,
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... four knapsack of one of Napoleon's corporals planks of his boat ; and unless he should - New York Mirror . be lucky enough to find the doge's ring- " 5204 0000. in - law of a man whose whole fortune is a skiff . Maria might better ...
... four knapsack of one of Napoleon's corporals planks of his boat ; and unless he should - New York Mirror . be lucky enough to find the doge's ring- " 5204 0000. in - law of a man whose whole fortune is a skiff . Maria might better ...
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... four pretty stiff steel wires , but in such a manner as to form four long upright hooks , in which the lower end of the chimney rests ; or , still better , if the lamp be so originally constructed as to sustain the chimney at the ...
... four pretty stiff steel wires , but in such a manner as to form four long upright hooks , in which the lower end of the chimney rests ; or , still better , if the lamp be so originally constructed as to sustain the chimney at the ...
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... four horses , " and he once more drank deeply ; when , after ano- ther long pause , as if calling up the images of those with whom he was once familiar , he said , " reckon poor old Giles the roper is dead and gone ? " " Been dead a ...
... four horses , " and he once more drank deeply ; when , after ano- ther long pause , as if calling up the images of those with whom he was once familiar , he said , " reckon poor old Giles the roper is dead and gone ? " " Been dead a ...
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... four others . - Times . At Berlin , on March 15 , Mr. John Frost , founder of the Medico - Botanical Society of London . At his lodge , Eton College , the Rev. Joseph Goodall , D.D. , Provost of Eton , in the eighty - first year of his ...
... four others . - Times . At Berlin , on March 15 , Mr. John Frost , founder of the Medico - Botanical Society of London . At his lodge , Eton College , the Rev. Joseph Goodall , D.D. , Provost of Eton , in the eighty - first year of his ...
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Página 200 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Página 166 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night.
Página 110 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Página 165 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Página 159 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!
Página 159 - Yes, there is a man in Westmoreland, And Johnny Armstrong they do him call." There, now, you plunge at once into the subject. You have no previous narration to lead you to it. The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good : "Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state'.
Página 378 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Página 337 - Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
Página 268 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 49 - Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.