The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volumen3John Timbs 1840 |
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... possessed beauty almost supernatural , and who , in the " vray paradis de monde , ' which they created around themselves , surpassed even the laughing and bewitch- ing heroines of Grammont's Chronicles ; whilst , second only in our ...
... possessed beauty almost supernatural , and who , in the " vray paradis de monde , ' which they created around themselves , surpassed even the laughing and bewitch- ing heroines of Grammont's Chronicles ; whilst , second only in our ...
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... Possession cloys , and they get peevish and irritable on discovering their mistake . Look about you for ten years more , and then you may write to me again . In the meantime , flirt and chat with every pretty girl you like , but never ...
... Possession cloys , and they get peevish and irritable on discovering their mistake . Look about you for ten years more , and then you may write to me again . In the meantime , flirt and chat with every pretty girl you like , but never ...
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... Possessions in the Low Countries , in 1559. It was one of the many articles of vertu with which Napoleon had vice enough to enrich the city of Paris , it hav- ing been taken from Brussels by his order . At the restoration of the ...
... Possessions in the Low Countries , in 1559. It was one of the many articles of vertu with which Napoleon had vice enough to enrich the city of Paris , it hav- ing been taken from Brussels by his order . At the restoration of the ...
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... possessed the same good sense , industry , and indefatigable order in his art during He his last illness , as at any former period of his career - which was marked by simpli- city and integrity , as was his death by perfect cheerfulness ...
... possessed the same good sense , industry , and indefatigable order in his art during He his last illness , as at any former period of his career - which was marked by simpli- city and integrity , as was his death by perfect cheerfulness ...
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... possessed of means so limited , and filling a situation so impor- tant . His hand was open to all , whether the ... possession of his understanding , with per- fect calmness , in the place in which he had lived for a long series of ...
... possessed of means so limited , and filling a situation so impor- tant . His hand was open to all , whether the ... possession of his understanding , with per- fect calmness , in the place in which he had lived for a long series of ...
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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.