The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1838 - English literature |
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... hope and anxiety , the arrival of the post is unquestionably the most exciting event of the day . A thousand apprehensions are conjured up , a thousand feelings called into action , by the sight of his letters ; indeed , at least , such ...
... hope and anxiety , the arrival of the post is unquestionably the most exciting event of the day . A thousand apprehensions are conjured up , a thousand feelings called into action , by the sight of his letters ; indeed , at least , such ...
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... hope , and give my wife and father - in - law the benefit of a perusal of the old gentleman's letter . Considering the allusions made to Mrs. Nubley's imperfect vision and resolute abjuration of assistance , I thought it wiser merely to ...
... hope , and give my wife and father - in - law the benefit of a perusal of the old gentleman's letter . Considering the allusions made to Mrs. Nubley's imperfect vision and resolute abjuration of assistance , I thought it wiser merely to ...
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CC tress -- and -- there was one cheering and redeeming hope in that - Iyes — I myself , with my paltry , trumpery independence , might relieve him from embarrassment and even poverty ; and , oh ! how happy would Harriet be ! -doubly ...
CC tress -- and -- there was one cheering and redeeming hope in that - Iyes — I myself , with my paltry , trumpery independence , might relieve him from embarrassment and even poverty ; and , oh ! how happy would Harriet be ! -doubly ...
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... hope of the future : the tale would seem incredible , had we not verified its truth on the spot . On the preceding evening the Killarney coach brought the news of the result of the county election , which he no sooner heard , than he ...
... hope of the future : the tale would seem incredible , had we not verified its truth on the spot . On the preceding evening the Killarney coach brought the news of the result of the county election , which he no sooner heard , than he ...
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... hope of comfort for his future life was gone . Although he had no wife or children to share his lot , he was not wholly alone . “ There's the pig , ” said a woman , who , with many others , was looking on the blackened spot ; cratur's ...
... hope of comfort for his future life was gone . Although he had no wife or children to share his lot , he was not wholly alone . “ There's the pig , ” said a woman , who , with many others , was looking on the blackened spot ; cratur's ...
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Page 246 - Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter : that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Page 255 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 260 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made • And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 264 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 255 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height...
Page 497 - What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ! Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 469 - And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Page 261 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 469 - Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles : and they shall not appear before the Lord...
Page 210 - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.