New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 152Henry Colburn, 1878 |
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... possessed of a very fair portion of good looks , but their secluded life had tended to make them more or less awkward and shy . Ellen O'Hara placed herself beside Sophy Drummond on the window - seat , while the other girls surrounded ...
... possessed of a very fair portion of good looks , but their secluded life had tended to make them more or less awkward and shy . Ellen O'Hara placed herself beside Sophy Drummond on the window - seat , while the other girls surrounded ...
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... possessed of some private means . They were to be married in a few days , and could as yet hardly realise the blissful promise of the future . Lucy Fitzpatrick was almost as happy as the young lovers : she was glad that such joy had ...
... possessed of some private means . They were to be married in a few days , and could as yet hardly realise the blissful promise of the future . Lucy Fitzpatrick was almost as happy as the young lovers : she was glad that such joy had ...
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... possessing himself of that brother's bride , and which act , far from proving a joy to him , seemed only a blight . Yes , there was retribution even in this world ; for had he known a moment's more happiness than this brother that now ...
... possessing himself of that brother's bride , and which act , far from proving a joy to him , seemed only a blight . Yes , there was retribution even in this world ; for had he known a moment's more happiness than this brother that now ...
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... possessed an extensive practice for miles around . There were only two children - myself and a girl , my senior by three years . We lived in a detached house , with fine gardens , hothouses , and every luxury surrounding us . My father ...
... possessed an extensive practice for miles around . There were only two children - myself and a girl , my senior by three years . We lived in a detached house , with fine gardens , hothouses , and every luxury surrounding us . My father ...
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... possessed a Drury Lane celebrity . Feeling certain that he would engage me ( for we were old chums ) , I gathered my effects together , and bade good - bye to the company of the house , which consisted of a miller in the neigh- bourhood ...
... possessed a Drury Lane celebrity . Feeling certain that he would engage me ( for we were old chums ) , I gathered my effects together , and bade good - bye to the company of the house , which consisted of a miller in the neigh- bourhood ...
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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.