The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... dear friend Miss Harris were , or what her resolutions as to her eventual destiny might be when she had read this " treacherous scrawl , " it is quite impossible for us to say ; but its contents decided her as to the course she was on ...
... dear friend Miss Harris were , or what her resolutions as to her eventual destiny might be when she had read this " treacherous scrawl , " it is quite impossible for us to say ; but its contents decided her as to the course she was on ...
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... dear child . " " That'll do , " said Bruff , " that'll do . I am satisfied of that . Eh , what , Smylar crying ? Come , come , that's nonsense , crying will spoil your complexion . " Many true words are spoken in jest , and most ...
... dear child . " " That'll do , " said Bruff , " that'll do . I am satisfied of that . Eh , what , Smylar crying ? Come , come , that's nonsense , crying will spoil your complexion . " Many true words are spoken in jest , and most ...
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... dear colonel - keep your own council , and speak to nobody on the subject ; you are come down to see your daughter , and there's an end ; -only mark , let the affair turn out as it will , my anxiety is that your views and wishes should ...
... dear colonel - keep your own council , and speak to nobody on the subject ; you are come down to see your daughter , and there's an end ; -only mark , let the affair turn out as it will , my anxiety is that your views and wishes should ...
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... dear friend Miss Harris : - " The Colonel begs you will take no notice to him , nor any body else , of what you wrote to him . He will be down before this post comes in - he thanks you . " This was sealed and despatched , written in a ...
... dear friend Miss Harris : - " The Colonel begs you will take no notice to him , nor any body else , of what you wrote to him . He will be down before this post comes in - he thanks you . " This was sealed and despatched , written in a ...
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... dear no , " said Lady Cramly . " I never venture to look out . The dear duke - Seraphine's godfather - who first induced me to go in one of them , told me never to look out . " " That'll do , my lady , " said the colonel . " I think in ...
... dear no , " said Lady Cramly . " I never venture to look out . The dear duke - Seraphine's godfather - who first induced me to go in one of them , told me never to look out . " " That'll do , my lady , " said the colonel . " I think in ...
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Página 477 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 86 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Página 201 - Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water ; but the swallow alone, in general, washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together : in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny weather sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops...
Página 201 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Página 86 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 427 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Página 86 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Página 547 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!
Página 483 - The cuckoo's a fine bird, he sings as he flies; he brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies. He sucks little birds' eggs to make his voice clear; and when he sings „cuckoo!
Página 85 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.