The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 55Henry Colburn, 1839 - English literature |
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... speak ; but it will suffer more from the necessary omission of the baron's reflections and considera- tions , comparisons and deductions , and all such other adjuncts to the main history . However , if the incidents which occur in the ...
... speak ; but it will suffer more from the necessary omission of the baron's reflections and considera- tions , comparisons and deductions , and all such other adjuncts to the main history . However , if the incidents which occur in the ...
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... speak for himself , and instead of trusting to Zlippzlopp's interpretation , allow him , as I find him capable of doing , to express his own feelings under all the curious circumstances with which he was mixed up . - Henceforth then ...
... speak for himself , and instead of trusting to Zlippzlopp's interpretation , allow him , as I find him capable of doing , to express his own feelings under all the curious circumstances with which he was mixed up . - Henceforth then ...
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... speaking humbly and encouragingly , said , " Now , you young vagabond , I have got you safe , you may thank your lucky stars I did not give you up to justice . Look at your jacket- where did you get that , but in the cave of some ...
... speaking humbly and encouragingly , said , " Now , you young vagabond , I have got you safe , you may thank your lucky stars I did not give you up to justice . Look at your jacket- where did you get that , but in the cave of some ...
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... speaking somewhat authoritatively . When that had ceased , shouts rent the air , and the whole body marched off , singing one of their popular songs , which never sounded so inharmonious to me as upon that particular night . The Baron ...
... speaking somewhat authoritatively . When that had ceased , shouts rent the air , and the whole body marched off , singing one of their popular songs , which never sounded so inharmonious to me as upon that particular night . The Baron ...
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... speak , for his words were few , as one who felt that he was too friendless and forsaken for life to be a blessing . At the age of eighteen he sank on his last bed , and died after a few weeks ' illness . On the morning after he had ...
... speak , for his words were few , as one who felt that he was too friendless and forsaken for life to be a blessing . At the age of eighteen he sank on his last bed , and died after a few weeks ' illness . On the morning after he had ...
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Page 223 - Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other...
Page 347 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr...
Page 222 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, . Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 347 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell, And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 49 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 347 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 233 - Yea, thee, traitor,' quoth the protector. And another let fly at the lord Stanley, which shrunk at the stroke and fell under the table, or else his head had been cleft to the teeth ; for as shortly as he shrank, yet ran the blood about his ears. Then...
Page 349 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, 'Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Page 348 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Page 347 - Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy...