The London Magazine, Volume 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 |
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... body's secret was consequently the best kept : no traitors , and though so many babblers no informers . For many years no one had dared to sport with the power of Napoleon : every one considered himself most happy when he supposed ...
... body's secret was consequently the best kept : no traitors , and though so many babblers no informers . For many years no one had dared to sport with the power of Napoleon : every one considered himself most happy when he supposed ...
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... body of cavalry and infantry was attempting to crowd into Paris ; the guard posted at the barrier would not let those who were already within proceed ; and , with great difficulty , effected the shutting and barring of the gates of the ...
... body of cavalry and infantry was attempting to crowd into Paris ; the guard posted at the barrier would not let those who were already within proceed ; and , with great difficulty , effected the shutting and barring of the gates of the ...
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... body of French cavalry galloping into Paris by the Rue Rochechouard , to all appearance escaping from the field of battle , and at three , V― saw artillery brought in at the barrier Rochechouard , and at four a confused flight of ...
... body of French cavalry galloping into Paris by the Rue Rochechouard , to all appearance escaping from the field of battle , and at three , V― saw artillery brought in at the barrier Rochechouard , and at four a confused flight of ...
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... body of Bassville the moment he loses all hope of carrying off his soul to hell . The guardian angel of Bassville , being specially commissioned by the Deity for that purpose , repels the attacks of Lucifer . The astonished soul of ...
... body of Bassville the moment he loses all hope of carrying off his soul to hell . The guardian angel of Bassville , being specially commissioned by the Deity for that purpose , repels the attacks of Lucifer . The astonished soul of ...
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... body who understands Italian to read Monti's book . It recalled to my mind the French line Même quand l'oiseau marche on sent qu'il a des ailes . Over these dry grammatical discussions , envenomed as they are by all the fury of Italian ...
... body who understands Italian to read Monti's book . It recalled to my mind the French line Même quand l'oiseau marche on sent qu'il a des ailes . Over these dry grammatical discussions , envenomed as they are by all the fury of Italian ...
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Página 556 - you are not so kind to the Duke of York of late as you used to be." — " Not I ? " says the King. " Why so ? "— " Why," says he, " if you are, let us drink his health."—" Why, let us,
Página 535 - Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 188 - When we are in perfect health and spirits, we feel in ourselves a happiness independent of any particular outward gratification whatever, and of which we can give no account. This is an enjoyment which the Deity has annexed to life; and it probably constitutes, in a great measure, the happiness of infants and brutes...
Página 568 - Antijacobin may, on their respective sides of the question, be considered as models of that style Of political satire, whose lightness and vivacity give it the appearance of proceeding rather from the wantonness of wit than of ill-nature, and whose very malice, from the fancy with which it is mixed up, like certain kinds of fireworks, explodes in sparkles.
Página 391 - This was the first time he had addressed us. I felt anxious to examine the features of a man who had been so much the public talk on account of his reputed cruelty at Trinidad. I could not deny that I felt a prejudice against him, and his countenance did not do it away: for it had a stern and gloomy expression, which, added to a very dark complexion, made it no way prepossessing ; but when he opened his mouth, and began to pour forth a torrent of abuse on us for our conduct, and his dark eye flashed...
Página 535 - ... ladies above referred to, calmly sinking down on her knees, and clasping her hands together, said,
Página 541 - ... was not repeatedly plunged several feet under water, or dashed with dangerous violence against the sides of the returning boat — or, what not unfrequently happened, was forced to let go his hold of the rope altogether. As there seemed, however no alternative, I did not hesitate, notwithstanding my comparative inexperience and awkwardness in such a situation, to throw my leg across the perilous stick; and with a heart extremely grateful that such means of deliverance, dangerous as they appeared,...
Página 534 - It was a little before this period that one of the officers of the ship, with the wellmeant intention of ascertaining that all was fast below, descended with two of the sailors into the hold, where they carried with them, for safety, a light in the patent lantern ; and seeing that the lamp burned dimly, the officer took the precaution to hand it up to the orlop deck to be trimmed. Having afterwards discovered...
Página 538 - ... fortitude which never fails to characterise and adorn their sex on occasions of overwhelming trial, were placed, without a murmur, in the boat, which was immediately lowered into a sea so tempestuous as to leave us only ' to hope against hope' that it should live in it for a single moment.
Página 539 - ... sacrifice to her filial devotion, not having been picked up by those in the boats until she had sunk five or six times. Another individual, who was reduced to the frightful alternative of losing his wife or. his children, hastily decided in favour of his duty to the former. His wife was accordingly saved, but his four children, alas ! were left to perish. A fine fellow, a soldier, who had neither wife nor child of his own, but who evinced the greatest solicitude for the safety of those of others,...