New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1822 |
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... light - hearted and loving , That caught even Pleasure , as round her he flew . I gazed , till enchanted I sprang to her side , 66 And besought her to say where her mates had all flown ; - Alas , " and she blushed as she softly replied ...
... light - hearted and loving , That caught even Pleasure , as round her he flew . I gazed , till enchanted I sprang to her side , 66 And besought her to say where her mates had all flown ; - Alas , " and she blushed as she softly replied ...
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... light in his genius , of a quality peculiarly calculated to shine in those dark and tempestuous times . The familiar and almost daily indulgence of the fiercer passions begot a corresponding avidity for emotion in the pic- tures of ...
... light in his genius , of a quality peculiarly calculated to shine in those dark and tempestuous times . The familiar and almost daily indulgence of the fiercer passions begot a corresponding avidity for emotion in the pic- tures of ...
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... light was closing , And its aspect , to use a French phrase , was imposing . Its magnificent portals , majestic and wide , Through which Temple - bar without stooping might ride— Its houses of such Brobdignagian height That they make ...
... light was closing , And its aspect , to use a French phrase , was imposing . Its magnificent portals , majestic and wide , Through which Temple - bar without stooping might ride— Its houses of such Brobdignagian height That they make ...
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... light , and as we passed through the camps of the different regiments on the road - side , we were received with loud cheers . The night of my arrival was , I think , the most miserable I ever spent . The rain had been falling in ...
... light , and as we passed through the camps of the different regiments on the road - side , we were received with loud cheers . The night of my arrival was , I think , the most miserable I ever spent . The rain had been falling in ...
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... light active fellow , had just gained his legs , and with sacre in his mouth , and a long sabre in his hand , was about to wreck his vengeance upon my Bucephalus ; when a back - handed blow from my sword upon his headpiece put a speedy ...
... light active fellow , had just gained his legs , and with sacre in his mouth , and a long sabre in his hand , was about to wreck his vengeance upon my Bucephalus ; when a back - handed blow from my sword upon his headpiece put a speedy ...
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Page 137 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed: Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 162 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 38 - Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.
Page 163 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 434 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 540 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 122 - The days are now long enough to walk in the Park after dinner; and so I do whenever it is fair. This walking is a strange remedy; Mr. Prior walks to make himself fat, and I to bring myself down ; he has generally a cough, which he only calls a cold : we often walk round the Park together.
Page 199 - oh ! gallant stranger, For hapless ADELGITHA'S love. " For he is in a foreign far land Whose arm should 'now have set me free ; And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead, or false to me.
Page 251 - DE toutes les habitations où j'ai demeuré ( et jen ai eu de charmantes), aucune ne m'a rendu si véritablement heureux , et ne m'a laissé de si tendres regrets, que l'île de Saint-Pierre, au milieu du lac de Bienne.
Page 276 - Successive crys the seasons' change declare, And mark the monthly progress of the year. Hark, how the streets with treble voices ring, To sell the bounteous product of the spring!