New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 152Henry Colburn, 1878 |
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... boat came in as usual at four , but no Mr. Sinclair on board , so he just drove home . " " What a pity ! What shall we do about the picnic ? It can't be put off . " " But you should not have spoken to M'Pherson . What if he were to tell ...
... boat came in as usual at four , but no Mr. Sinclair on board , so he just drove home . " " What a pity ! What shall we do about the picnic ? It can't be put off . " " But you should not have spoken to M'Pherson . What if he were to tell ...
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... boat that was half on the strand and half in the water . was fixing a gig - cushion in the stern . " Will yer honour want me wid ye ? " said Mike . " Certainly not . You may go to the devil till nine o'clock . " " Thank yer honour ; but ...
... boat that was half on the strand and half in the water . was fixing a gig - cushion in the stern . " Will yer honour want me wid ye ? " said Mike . " Certainly not . You may go to the devil till nine o'clock . " " Thank yer honour ; but ...
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... boat bumped on the pebbles , Kate Castleton emerged from some convenient recess , and ran to meet her lover , who had jumped from the boat . She was a very fascinating girl of the true Irish type , improved by French polish . She was ...
... boat bumped on the pebbles , Kate Castleton emerged from some convenient recess , and ran to meet her lover , who had jumped from the boat . She was a very fascinating girl of the true Irish type , improved by French polish . She was ...
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... boat glided on softly through the quiet water , that hissed and bubbled at the prow . Kate sat silently gazing at the sea - birds as they waved their white wings in the golden light of the setting sun . Fred was gazing at his own image ...
... boat glided on softly through the quiet water , that hissed and bubbled at the prow . Kate sat silently gazing at the sea - birds as they waved their white wings in the golden light of the setting sun . Fred was gazing at his own image ...
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... boat landing on the far side of the rock - only it seemed in the cave . be impossible , I fancy . " " Oh perhaps it's pa come to look for me ! " Begorrah that's the hardest night I've been out in this many a day , this rain ' ud damp ...
... boat landing on the far side of the rock - only it seemed in the cave . be impossible , I fancy . " " Oh perhaps it's pa come to look for me ! " Begorrah that's the hardest night I've been out in this many a day , this rain ' ud damp ...
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Seite 280 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Seite 430 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Seite 432 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Seite 436 - Irish imagination were exhaustless I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have ever seen written — though I saw him seldom, and but occasionally.
Seite 376 - ... and even then he kept all his wits about him, to express the most humble and pathetic petitions to the Almighty : and when the first paralytic stroke took his speech from him, he instantly set about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise, that they might not perish by permitted stagnation.
Seite 378 - Nay, hold Mr. Johnson, and do not make a farce of thanking God for a dinner which in a few minutes you will protest not eatable.
Seite 377 - Mother, I have not deceived Mrs. Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle hanged.
Seite 378 - a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One day, when he was speaking upon the subject, I asked him if he ever huffed his wife about his dinner? "So often," replied he, "that at last she called to me, and said, 'Nay, hold, Mr.
Seite 377 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the* fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, Mr, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved lo begin as I meant to end.
Seite 432 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen, (said he,) Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith ; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.