Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 252F. Jefferies, 1882 |
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... young bloods and sprigs of nobility than from professional thieves and blacklegs . Costumes were grotesque and irrational , but were worn with a dash and effrontery that made them becoming . There were cocked hats and steeple- crowned ...
... young bloods and sprigs of nobility than from professional thieves and blacklegs . Costumes were grotesque and irrational , but were worn with a dash and effrontery that made them becoming . There were cocked hats and steeple- crowned ...
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... young looked forward to a good time coming , and the old prophesied misfortune . At that epoch , as in this , Death plied his trade after his well - known fashion , which seems so cruel and arbitrary , and is so merciful and wise . And ...
... young looked forward to a good time coming , and the old prophesied misfortune . At that epoch , as in this , Death plied his trade after his well - known fashion , which seems so cruel and arbitrary , and is so merciful and wise . And ...
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said young Mr. Bendibow , glancing at the other and speaking curtly . Then he added , " You have the advantage of me , sir . " " I call myself Grant , " returned the elderly man . " Never heard my father mention the name , " said Mr ...
said young Mr. Bendibow , glancing at the other and speaking curtly . Then he added , " You have the advantage of me , sir . " " I call myself Grant , " returned the elderly man . " Never heard my father mention the name , " said Mr ...
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... young man's coat . " Ay , there's a dislocation here , " he continued ; " but if you can bear a minute's pain , I can put it right again . We must get your coat off , and then . . . . " " Better get the ladies out of their cage first ...
... young man's coat . " Ay , there's a dislocation here , " he continued ; " but if you can bear a minute's pain , I can put it right again . We must get your coat off , and then . . . . " " Better get the ladies out of their cage first ...
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... young Lancaster showed to advan- tage . He was above the medium height , and strongly made , deep in the chest and elastic in the loins . A tall and massive white throat supported a head that seemed small , but was of remarkably fine ...
... young Lancaster showed to advan- tage . He was above the medium height , and strongly made , deep in the chest and elastic in the loins . A tall and massive white throat supported a head that seemed small , but was of remarkably fine ...
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Página 538 - And then an open field they crossed : The marks were still the same; They tracked them on, nor ever lost; And to the bridge they came. They followed from the snowy bank Those footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank; And further there were none ! — Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild.
Página 101 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 306 - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, ' It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 185 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Página 335 - Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As wanting due relief: No burial this pretty pair Of any man receives, Till Robin-red-breast piously Did cover them with leaves.
Página 336 - Art thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The Bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing?
Página 535 - The Ancient Mariner grew and grew till it became too important for our first object, which was limited to our expectation of five pounds, and we began to...
Página 308 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 700 - Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only child, and brought up to ' great prospects,' I was sublimely ignorant of every branch of useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar, and a very fair mathematician.
Página 534 - ... do with the scheme of the poem. The gloss with which it was subsequently accompanied was not thought of by either of us at the time, at least not a hint of it was given to me, and I have no doubt it was a gratuitous afterthought. We began the composition together on that to me memorable evening. I furnished two or three lines at the beginning of the poem, in particular And listened like a three years' child; The Mariner had his will.