Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 1J. M Lewer, 1838 |
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... beauty , but the light only seemed to show the boy his own lonesomeness and desolation as he sat with bleeding feet and covered with dust upon a cold door - step . By degrees the shutters were opened , the window - blinds were drawn up ...
... beauty , but the light only seemed to show the boy his own lonesomeness and desolation as he sat with bleeding feet and covered with dust upon a cold door - step . By degrees the shutters were opened , the window - blinds were drawn up ...
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... beauty , calling back the lustre of the eyes , the bright- ness of the smile , the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay , and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb , changed but to be height- ened ; and taken from earth only to ...
... beauty , calling back the lustre of the eyes , the bright- ness of the smile , the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay , and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb , changed but to be height- ened ; and taken from earth only to ...
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... beauty to give her any other than a female designation . Every body has been in love sometime or other in the course of his existence , and the object of his affection was no doubt an angel in the eyes of the ardent lover : -just so was ...
... beauty to give her any other than a female designation . Every body has been in love sometime or other in the course of his existence , and the object of his affection was no doubt an angel in the eyes of the ardent lover : -just so was ...
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... beauty , her majesty and her might . The giantess of the deep , her lightnings sleeping and her thunders hushed , dances lightly o'er thy mimic billows , and curtseys to the gentle gale . ' There , my lord , that is the way I begin ...
... beauty , her majesty and her might . The giantess of the deep , her lightnings sleeping and her thunders hushed , dances lightly o'er thy mimic billows , and curtseys to the gentle gale . ' There , my lord , that is the way I begin ...
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... beauty . " " What have I said that's witty , now ? " returned the veteran ; " I can't open my mouth to utter a word of truth , or to ax a question , but I'm called a wit ; for my part , I see no wit in it . " " Your anecdote , " said ...
... beauty . " " What have I said that's witty , now ? " returned the veteran ; " I can't open my mouth to utter a word of truth , or to ax a question , but I'm called a wit ; for my part , I see no wit in it . " " Your anecdote , " said ...
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Page 259 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven : And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 144 - To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 94 - ... in the direction of Spitalfields. The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets ; the rain fell sluggishly down, and every thins; felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved, crawling forth by night...
Page 467 - But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 270 - Kindly she chides his boyish flights, while he Will for a moment fix'd and pensive be; And as she trembling speaks, his lively eyes Explore her looks, he listens to her sighs; Charm'd by her voice, th...
Page 8 - said the board, looking very knowing; "we are the fellows to set this to rights ; we'll stop it all, in no time." So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.
Page 8 - ... he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides. The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large...
Page 1 - ... a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
Page 2 - ... fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
Page 96 - Satan in divers shapes in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils ; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was — a woman.