New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 98Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1853 |
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... kind , em- ployed by Mr. Roper to arrest me . " " I am employed by his Majesty King George the Second , sirrah ; and I will carve you in minced - meat for your impertinence , " the giant roared , making a pass at him with his lengthy ...
... kind , em- ployed by Mr. Roper to arrest me . " " I am employed by his Majesty King George the Second , sirrah ; and I will carve you in minced - meat for your impertinence , " the giant roared , making a pass at him with his lengthy ...
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... kind of cobbling or patching , would be allowed when once the pictures were fairly housed in Trafalgar - square . Exhibitors were fairly told to " leave all hope " of further retouching " behind ; " they were not to paint the lily , nor ...
... kind of cobbling or patching , would be allowed when once the pictures were fairly housed in Trafalgar - square . Exhibitors were fairly told to " leave all hope " of further retouching " behind ; " they were not to paint the lily , nor ...
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... kind , but both painted in a masterly manner . The first is an Oriental subject " Solo- mon Meditating in his Garden ; " the other an Italian one- " A Domini- can Preaching . " To Mr. Hart it almost exclusively belongs to represent the ...
... kind , but both painted in a masterly manner . The first is an Oriental subject " Solo- mon Meditating in his Garden ; " the other an Italian one- " A Domini- can Preaching . " To Mr. Hart it almost exclusively belongs to represent the ...
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... kind of climate may be found at different alti- tudes , as also every description of vegetation ; the soil is fertile in the extreme ; nothing can be more healthy ; constitutions , debilitated by the moist heats of Calcutta , Madras ...
... kind of climate may be found at different alti- tudes , as also every description of vegetation ; the soil is fertile in the extreme ; nothing can be more healthy ; constitutions , debilitated by the moist heats of Calcutta , Madras ...
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... kind . Death inspires no terror to the Chinese . They write upon their tombs , " I have quitted the roof of my fathers and my native soil to sleep under these sacred shades , in an eternal sleep . " To such minds death is repose . It ...
... kind . Death inspires no terror to the Chinese . They write upon their tombs , " I have quitted the roof of my fathers and my native soil to sleep under these sacred shades , in an eternal sleep . " To such minds death is repose . It ...
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Page 227 - Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Page 398 - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me...
Page 333 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul...
Page 34 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 308 - The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
Page 204 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Page 33 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 204 - The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
Page 33 - Clipp'd from the lovely head where late it grew) That, while my nostrils draw the vital air, This hand, which won it, shall for ever wear.
Page 396 - Ann ! She fixed her eyes upon me earnestly ; and I said to her at length : " So then I have found you at last." I waited, but she answered me not a word. Her face was the same as when I saw it last...