The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 40Henry Colburn and Company, 1834 - English literature |
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... bills of mortality ? Civilization is the very Herod of our days . There was a queer look , a half - open leer , a glance ... Bill Woods , John King , and Paddy Puss . The first of these was a fellow who had his leg broken , and his skull ...
... bills of mortality ? Civilization is the very Herod of our days . There was a queer look , a half - open leer , a glance ... Bill Woods , John King , and Paddy Puss . The first of these was a fellow who had his leg broken , and his skull ...
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... Bill Woods was certainly intended by Nature for a hero . He was a perfect block in point of feeling . All his tastes were military , and he delighted in destruction . He was of a good size , had tolerable features , and would have been ...
... Bill Woods was certainly intended by Nature for a hero . He was a perfect block in point of feeling . All his tastes were military , and he delighted in destruction . He was of a good size , had tolerable features , and would have been ...
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... bill , bade her a good afternoon , and promised to come to her early in the morning . Sir , " said she , " don't be angry with me for what I am going to say ; -I feel very anxious about you : -do you know much of Dr. Crowpick ? " 66 66 ...
... bill , bade her a good afternoon , and promised to come to her early in the morning . Sir , " said she , " don't be angry with me for what I am going to say ; -I feel very anxious about you : -do you know much of Dr. Crowpick ? " 66 66 ...
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... bills of the butcher are said to be artificially kept up . Reduce the price of meat to twopence per pound by means of a society , and you do an apparently great public good . But who are you that effect this good for the public ...
... bills of the butcher are said to be artificially kept up . Reduce the price of meat to twopence per pound by means of a society , and you do an apparently great public good . But who are you that effect this good for the public ...
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... bills come in , that , instead of a Pantheon , it will turn out to be a Pandemonium . - EMIGRATION TAX ON ABSENTEES . : Emigration to the Conti- nent continues to a frightful extent . Lord and Lady Jersey are now gone - Lord and Lady ...
... bills come in , that , instead of a Pantheon , it will turn out to be a Pandemonium . - EMIGRATION TAX ON ABSENTEES . : Emigration to the Conti- nent continues to a frightful extent . Lord and Lady Jersey are now gone - Lord and Lady ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 9 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 193 - London Prentice. I have often wished that our tragedians would copy after this great master in action. Could they make the same use of their arms and legs, and inform their faces with as significant looks and passions, how glorious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity to the forced thoughts, cold conceits, and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera...
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Page 8 - All this hath somewhat worn me, and may wear, But must be borne. I stoop not to despair; For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall...
Page 227 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history : And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 46 - ... vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation, to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people at that day, when thou, the eternal and shortly-expected king, shalt open the clouds to judge the several kingdoms of the world, and distributing national honours and rewards to religious and just common-wealths, shalt put an end to all earthly tyrannies, proclaiming thy universal and mild monarchy through heaven and earth.