The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1832 |
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... head of the idol— the Brahmins flock around - they weep - they implore — they threaten -it is even said that they attempted to bribe . Mahmoud is softened not he splits the idol in twain - a profusion of pearls and rubies tumble forth ...
... head of the idol— the Brahmins flock around - they weep - they implore — they threaten -it is even said that they attempted to bribe . Mahmoud is softened not he splits the idol in twain - a profusion of pearls and rubies tumble forth ...
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... head of the list , it may be inferred , are a fair sample of the rest , as there is no reason why a Duke should be more dumb or dense than a man in any other degree in the peerage . It is true that one could not get so far in the other ...
... head of the list , it may be inferred , are a fair sample of the rest , as there is no reason why a Duke should be more dumb or dense than a man in any other degree in the peerage . It is true that one could not get so far in the other ...
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... head under water till he was fit for selling , and I then sold him , Sir , for twelve guineas ; and now I feel mightily eased in my mind , and am going to have a pleasant nap ; " - if this is to be the moral of Burking and confessing to ...
... head under water till he was fit for selling , and I then sold him , Sir , for twelve guineas ; and now I feel mightily eased in my mind , and am going to have a pleasant nap ; " - if this is to be the moral of Burking and confessing to ...
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... head of the new cabinet , and was given the rectory of Bin less than a fortnight . Nor would his preferment have stopped here , but for a singular accident - the sudden death of his new patron , who was once more succeeded by his ...
... head of the new cabinet , and was given the rectory of Bin less than a fortnight . Nor would his preferment have stopped here , but for a singular accident - the sudden death of his new patron , who was once more succeeded by his ...
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... head of an Administration , he might have been uneasy at the state of Foreign Affairs without being able exactly to define the reason ; and without inconsistency , he might have cordially approved Mr. Canning's system without ...
... head of an Administration , he might have been uneasy at the state of Foreign Affairs without being able exactly to define the reason ; and without inconsistency , he might have cordially approved Mr. Canning's system without ...
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Página 15 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Página 127 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Página 67 - Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss !
Página 230 - Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. ' He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Página 74 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 86 - ... through his locks unconsciously, so that it was singularly wild and rough. . . . His features were not symmetrical (the mouth, perhaps, excepted), yet was the effect of the whole extremely powerful. They breathed an animation, a fire, an enthusiasm, a vivid and preternatural intelligence that I never met with in any other countenance.
Página 118 - Afterwards, he retired to a more reserved and melancholy society, yet preserving his own natural cheerfulness and vivacity, and, above all, a flowing courtesy to all men...
Página 506 - What, then, is man ! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning, gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.
Página 67 - Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness perversely strays ; And finds all desert now; and meets the ghosts Of my departed joys...
Página 490 - Both must be blamed, both pardon'd ; — 'twas just so " With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; " So Walpole, Pulteney ;— factions in all times, " Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend...