New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 152Henry Colburn, 1878 |
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... nature , and loved amusement , hence her habitual discontent . The young ladies who were so anxious to see the above - men- tioned Mr. Sinclair , were her younger sisters , pretty girls both of them , but not nearly so handsome as ...
... nature , and loved amusement , hence her habitual discontent . The young ladies who were so anxious to see the above - men- tioned Mr. Sinclair , were her younger sisters , pretty girls both of them , but not nearly so handsome as ...
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... nature . He was a man capable of an ardent attachment , and one of those unhappy people who never forget anything . His story was this . He was on the point of being married to a beautiful girl , who seemed devoted to him . The wedding ...
... nature . He was a man capable of an ardent attachment , and one of those unhappy people who never forget anything . His story was this . He was on the point of being married to a beautiful girl , who seemed devoted to him . The wedding ...
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... nature of it . His father had often impressed upon him that it was a duty which he owed to himself and to his ancestors never to speak to one of the Castletons . His mother died shortly after his birth . He was about leaving school when ...
... nature of it . His father had often impressed upon him that it was a duty which he owed to himself and to his ancestors never to speak to one of the Castletons . His mother died shortly after his birth . He was about leaving school when ...
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... nature of the road would admit . As they approached the old house the sky had become clearer , and objects could be more distinctly seen in advance . Several of the party imagined that they could at times discern a white object before ...
... nature of the road would admit . As they approached the old house the sky had become clearer , and objects could be more distinctly seen in advance . Several of the party imagined that they could at times discern a white object before ...
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... nature I must leave you soon . My friends and relatives are almost all gone before me . You are my last ties to this world . I am not sorrowful , dears - only a little grave . " 9 Days went by and Nora nearly forgot the dream . Mrs ...
... nature I must leave you soon . My friends and relatives are almost all gone before me . You are my last ties to this world . I am not sorrowful , dears - only a little grave . " 9 Days went by and Nora nearly forgot the dream . Mrs ...
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answer appear arrived asked beautiful believe brought called Captain carried Cecil character Charlotte close continued daughter dear death door English eyes face father fear feel followed friends gave Geraldine girl give given gone Hamlet hand head hear heard heart Herat Hill hope hundred India James kind king knew known lady leave less letter live look Lucy Mary master means mind Miss morning mother nature never night once passed perhaps Persian play poor possessed present question reached remain replied rest river round Russia seemed seen side Sinclair soon speak stand sure taken tell things Thirlwell thought told Tollington took true turned whole wish young
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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.