The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1843 - English literature |
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... perhaps only a coincidence - and yet the beast might compre- hend and enjoy the sudden turning of the tables , the Man became a Prisoner , and the Brute his Gaoler . It might tickle his savage fancy to behold a creature of the species ...
... perhaps only a coincidence - and yet the beast might compre- hend and enjoy the sudden turning of the tables , the Man became a Prisoner , and the Brute his Gaoler . It might tickle his savage fancy to behold a creature of the species ...
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... perhaps in conformity with their real- feelings at the moment . Even in selecting modes of suicide there is sometimes a touch of conceita hankering after posthumous celebrity . Why did Empe- docles throw himself into the crater of Mount ...
... perhaps in conformity with their real- feelings at the moment . Even in selecting modes of suicide there is sometimes a touch of conceita hankering after posthumous celebrity . Why did Empe- docles throw himself into the crater of Mount ...
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... perhaps also for the devil . " Never attempt to villanize mankind , " says Cudworth . If the wheel of thought , and consequently of action and condition , rolled round like that of fortune - if there were to be no such thing as human ...
... perhaps also for the devil . " Never attempt to villanize mankind , " says Cudworth . If the wheel of thought , and consequently of action and condition , rolled round like that of fortune - if there were to be no such thing as human ...
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... perhaps , the patching up of their defective memo- ries with the patching of decayed clothes . A hard - working race are the chorus singers ! Of the lady choristers , however , there may be said to be two classes -choristers in fact ...
... perhaps , the patching up of their defective memo- ries with the patching of decayed clothes . A hard - working race are the chorus singers ! Of the lady choristers , however , there may be said to be two classes -choristers in fact ...
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... perhaps , for the theatre , that there exists a sort of corps de reserve , composed of the venerable matrons whom I have styled the choristers de facto : since , were it not for them , an opera might often be rendered inoperative by the ...
... perhaps , for the theatre , that there exists a sort of corps de reserve , composed of the venerable matrons whom I have styled the choristers de facto : since , were it not for them , an opera might often be rendered inoperative by the ...
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Page 126 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 98 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Page 128 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 179 - Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And said,
Page 128 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 128 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 344 - Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud resting on the bosom of the blue expanse, which reminded us of what we had seen in some picture in the Louvre. We were suddenly roused from our reverie by recollecting that till we had answered...
Page 98 - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Page 395 - Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings, I felt a sense of pain when I beheld The silent trees, and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods.
Page 127 - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.