Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, Volumes 6-7Anna Maria Hall |
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... reader ) , and laughed himself , he afterwards told me , as much as the rest . When he had finished the chapter , ' Come , ' said he , ' let's form a Don Quixote Club ; and when you have got through this book , we'll have another ...
... reader ) , and laughed himself , he afterwards told me , as much as the rest . When he had finished the chapter , ' Come , ' said he , ' let's form a Don Quixote Club ; and when you have got through this book , we'll have another ...
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... reader to that most lovable of humourists , my Uncle Toby , has discoursed most eloquently on the various hobby - horses which take possession of , and enslave , the mind of man . Fortification , which was my Uncle Toby's mania ...
... reader to that most lovable of humourists , my Uncle Toby , has discoursed most eloquently on the various hobby - horses which take possession of , and enslave , the mind of man . Fortification , which was my Uncle Toby's mania ...
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... reader ? If of the sterner sex , you certainly do ; and if of the gentler , God forbid that we should tell you more than the bare fact that middle - aged bachelors are no better than young ones or rather that they are worse , from ...
... reader ? If of the sterner sex , you certainly do ; and if of the gentler , God forbid that we should tell you more than the bare fact that middle - aged bachelors are no better than young ones or rather that they are worse , from ...
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... reader , I was quite forgetting that you know nothing about such things . Nevertheless , I dare say you have often had for partner at a ball or a picnic a man who was shy and awkward , and spoke little , or talked about the weather ...
... reader , I was quite forgetting that you know nothing about such things . Nevertheless , I dare say you have often had for partner at a ball or a picnic a man who was shy and awkward , and spoke little , or talked about the weather ...
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... reader ; but pardon me if I say that the fault is , in such case , your own . There is a very good and sound moral in it , and one that you will do well to take to heart- " Don't make a bad beginning in what- ever you undertake . " You ...
... reader ; but pardon me if I say that the fault is , in such case , your own . There is a very good and sound moral in it , and one that you will do well to take to heart- " Don't make a bad beginning in what- ever you undertake . " You ...
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Página 362 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer?
Página 312 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Página 71 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 306 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 367 - SIR, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool : But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Página 366 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Página 350 - Denmark when she no longer resists. The line of defence which covered her shores has struck to the British flag: but if the firing is continued on the part of Denmark, he must set on fire all the prizes that he has taken, without having the power of saving the men who have so nobly defended them. The brave Danes are the brothers, and should never be the enemies of the English.
Página 71 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 165 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me ' ? Christians are those who have Christ's spirit, as I think, and sacrifice themselves to save others.
Página 366 - FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved. Where still so much is said ; One half will never be believed. The other never read.