The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1840 |
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... Straddle , " said Blowhard , " help yourself and pass the bottle . You seem melancholy , man , what ails you ? " " You can't wonder at it , my dear fellow , " said Straddle , sighing and filling his glass , " when you consider under ...
... Straddle , " said Blowhard , " help yourself and pass the bottle . You seem melancholy , man , what ails you ? " " You can't wonder at it , my dear fellow , " said Straddle , sighing and filling his glass , " when you consider under ...
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... Straddle , " but here have I been four years resident in Oxford and what have I got by it ? " " Got ? Why you have ... Straddle ; " but come , I'll give you a toast - here's confusion to all misjudging paternities . " Just as Mr ...
... Straddle , " but here have I been four years resident in Oxford and what have I got by it ? " " Got ? Why you have ... Straddle ; " but come , I'll give you a toast - here's confusion to all misjudging paternities . " Just as Mr ...
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... Straddle , " I can't do , as I'm still upon the look out . There must be many women though about , who would not sneeze at such a figure as mine , though I'm rather inclined to be stout . " Mr. Straddle displayed an excess of modesty in ...
... Straddle , " I can't do , as I'm still upon the look out . There must be many women though about , who would not sneeze at such a figure as mine , though I'm rather inclined to be stout . " Mr. Straddle displayed an excess of modesty in ...
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... Straddle . " No , but I'll call on him to - morrow morning . " " Do so . Now one more bottle to drink a short life and a merry husband to Miss Violetta Jilks . " The fresh bottle was floored , or as Straddle expressed it , another ...
... Straddle . " No , but I'll call on him to - morrow morning . " " Do so . Now one more bottle to drink a short life and a merry husband to Miss Violetta Jilks . " The fresh bottle was floored , or as Straddle expressed it , another ...
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... Straddle were suddenly smitten with a strong attachment for the " sister arts , " and professed an extraordinary pro- pensity for the society of ladies who were accomplished therein . Jilks was delighted at their manifest similarity of ...
... Straddle were suddenly smitten with a strong attachment for the " sister arts , " and professed an extraordinary pro- pensity for the society of ladies who were accomplished therein . Jilks was delighted at their manifest similarity of ...
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acquaintance admiration Agnes Almeria Amersham appearance asked beautiful better Blowhard Bruff Byron Scott called Chantilly character Charles Chesterfield Christopher Circassians Clara colonel course cried daughter dear dear Jane door Doublebrain Duke Duke of Orleans Dumoulin Ellen English Ephraim exciting eyes fancy father favour feel felt France French gentleman George Grindle Gibson give gold golden Goldsniff Grenada Grenoble Guizot hand happy head heart honour horses Jane Jilks Kilmansegg legs literary living look Lord manner Marchmont matter means Miles Blackmore mind Miss Meddows Mont Blanc morning nature Neil Neil MacDonald never Newmarket night party passed person poor present prince race reader replied seemed seen Sherbourne Sir George Smylar Snub sort spirit sporting Straddle sure tell Theodosia thing THOMAS HOOD thought tion told tone Venice whole words young lady
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Página 299 - Dost thou come here to whine ? To outface me with leaping in her grave ? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Página 299 - Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Página 502 - SING aloud unto God our strength : make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Página 502 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Página 502 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Página 358 - Soften'd with the first breathings of the spring ; The high moon sails upon her beauteous way, Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces, Whose porphyry pillars, and whose costly fronts, Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles, Like altars ranged along the broad canal, Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed Rear'd up from out the waters...
Página 416 - Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. 18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her : for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled.
Página 297 - It is a common practice now-a-days, amongst a sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...
Página 83 - And the other sex — the tender — the fair — What wide reverses of fate are there ! Whilst Margaret, charm'd by the Bulbul rare, In a garden of Gul reposes — Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till— think of that, who find life so sweet !— She hates the smell of roses...
Página 502 - Praise the LORD with harp : sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.