New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen84Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1848 |
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... cause of this unaccustomed mode of proceeding . It is , I believe , within everybody's experience , if the superscription of a letter be in an unknown hand , how , instead of at once opening it and satisfying one's curiosity as to the ...
... cause of this unaccustomed mode of proceeding . It is , I believe , within everybody's experience , if the superscription of a letter be in an unknown hand , how , instead of at once opening it and satisfying one's curiosity as to the ...
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... cause ; it had reference neither to the Vidame de Chartres , nor the Reine Pédauque , nor in fact to any of the themes which were at once my study and my delight . Instead of an elaborate dis- quisition closely written and accurately ...
... cause ; it had reference neither to the Vidame de Chartres , nor the Reine Pédauque , nor in fact to any of the themes which were at once my study and my delight . Instead of an elaborate dis- quisition closely written and accurately ...
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... cause of my abstraction . I explained as well as I could that my mind was occupied by a very diffi- cult inscription , which had been forwarded me to decypher from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Heligoland , and that I was uncertain ...
... cause of my abstraction . I explained as well as I could that my mind was occupied by a very diffi- cult inscription , which had been forwarded me to decypher from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Heligoland , and that I was uncertain ...
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... cause . She rid herself of the importunate remonstrances of some of the elderly dames . She had offered to go , and go she must . She laid down her distaff , and stuck her spindle into her girdle . She drew up her Polonaise hood over ...
... cause . She rid herself of the importunate remonstrances of some of the elderly dames . She had offered to go , and go she must . She laid down her distaff , and stuck her spindle into her girdle . She drew up her Polonaise hood over ...
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... cause me to make myself as ridicu- lous as possible in the eyes of the shocked Lavinia and her reproving papa . I don't like to confess it ; but , I am afraid the truth is , that I challenged both Peter and the major to fight that very ...
... cause me to make myself as ridicu- lous as possible in the eyes of the shocked Lavinia and her reproving papa . I don't like to confess it ; but , I am afraid the truth is , that I challenged both Peter and the major to fight that very ...
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Página 542 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 112 - I find earlier days are gone by — I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but continual drinking of knowledge.
Página 333 - They that go down to the sea in ships, and do business in great waters, These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 330 - replies a pamper'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Página 111 - That if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
Página 163 - That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to...
Página 519 - CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Página 99 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still and stirred not for all that.
Página 112 - There is but one way for me; the road lies through application, study and thought. I will pursue it and to that end purpose retiring for some years.
Página 530 - ... no portion of which was, to our perception, used in propelling it through the water, either by vertical or horizontal undulation. It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter, that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognised his features with the naked eye...