The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 74Henry Colburn, 1845 - English literature |
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a crown of twelve aged oaks of ancient growth , under whose shades were once the ample cellars , the butchery , and the ice - house of the mo- nastery , and where now , if you believe the old crones and the thick- sculled bumpkins at ...
a crown of twelve aged oaks of ancient growth , under whose shades were once the ample cellars , the butchery , and the ice - house of the mo- nastery , and where now , if you believe the old crones and the thick- sculled bumpkins at ...
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... once . And , as they met and knocked against , and all but tumbled upon each other , in the bear - like evolu- tions of that lumbering tournament , it was dismal to hear the scolding and cursing , and the half - muttered oaths , with ...
... once . And , as they met and knocked against , and all but tumbled upon each other , in the bear - like evolu- tions of that lumbering tournament , it was dismal to hear the scolding and cursing , and the half - muttered oaths , with ...
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... once more began to flow . " There is the giantess again ! " said the marchese , with one glance at the retreating domestic . " Her phantom will haunt me like a night- mare in my sleep . " " Treat her then , even as a ghost should be ...
... once more began to flow . " There is the giantess again ! " said the marchese , with one glance at the retreating domestic . " Her phantom will haunt me like a night- mare in my sleep . " " Treat her then , even as a ghost should be ...
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... Once in her bed , she was assailed by burning fevers from which she only recovered after the lapse of forty days . Reason and memory seemed hopelessly to have forsaken her ; and that same ghost - like rigidness of features , that ...
... Once in her bed , she was assailed by burning fevers from which she only recovered after the lapse of forty days . Reason and memory seemed hopelessly to have forsaken her ; and that same ghost - like rigidness of features , that ...
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... once , at least , I am quite sure that you will succeed . " " I have no more money about me , " said Edward , in his best French , addressing the man with a degree of cool assurance that did infinite honour to his rapidly improving ...
... once , at least , I am quite sure that you will succeed . " " I have no more money about me , " said Edward , in his best French , addressing the man with a degree of cool assurance that did infinite honour to his rapidly improving ...
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Popular passages
Page 372 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 372 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind...
Page 372 - His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has...
Page 585 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 204 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 125 - ... their retreat, carried off part of the treasure, and, what was dearer than any treasure, several of the women of the great king; who was at last obliged to repass the Euphrates with some marks of haste and confusion.
Page 635 - It has been suggested," observes the same philosophic writer, "that, as in our own times, the northern animals migrate, so the Siberian Elephant and Rhinoceros may have wandered towards the north in summer." In making such excursions during the heat of that brief season, the Mammoths would be arrested in their northern progress by a condition to which the Rein-deer and...
Page 70 - Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end.. The Cock, at a distance, saw what happened , and, hardly yet daring to trust himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and peeped at him, not without some horror and dread of mind. Reynard no sooner perceived it, but he addressed himself to him, with all the designing artifice imaginable.
Page 145 - You are all aware that On our throne there once sat A very great king who'd an Angevin hat, With a great sprig of broom, which he wore as a badge in it, Named from this circumstance, Heury Plintagenet.