Longman's Magazine, Volume 7

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Longmans, Green, 1886
 

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Página 47 - If you do, after all, think fit to dissolve this assembly, do not tell me that you desire me to do it, for that will not satisfy my conscience ; but send me your positive command, in such full and express terms as may absolve me from guilt and punishment for neglecting this opportunity of doing good, when you and I shall appear before the great and awful tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 442 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if, that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent...
Página 495 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Página 442 - ... confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Página 493 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Página 325 - CHALKHILL (John). Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History, in smooth and easie Verse, written long since, by John Chalkhill, Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spencer.
Página 560 - Browne's, from a firm conviction that it is decidedly the best, and also from a sense of duty we owe to the profession and the public, as we are of opinion that the substitution of any other than Collis Browne's is a DELIBERATE BREACH OF FAITH ON THE PART OF THE CHEMIST.
Página 369 - ... and falling into dust at the edges, in capes and bays of fragile decay ; others worm-eaten, some mouse-eaten, many torn half-way through...
Página 152 - NEVER saw an author in my life — saving, perhaps, one — that did not purr as audibly as a full-grown domestic cat, on having his fur smoothed in the right way by a skillful hand.
Página 44 - Finder], according to their promise, when they were in the Isle before the election. The sum was not thirty pounds ; but it was as good as five hundred. Now they knew the burning of my flax, my London journey, and their throwing me out of my regiment, had both sunk my credit and exhausted my money. My adversary was sent to, when I was on the road, to meet me, that I might make some proposals to him.

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