The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1842 |
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... answer . 66 Well , but think now , " pursued the lady , " just estimate the expenses . What would a carriage and horses , once purchased , cost in the year ? " " Pair of horses ? Oh , why - a hundred a - year - set it down at a hundred ...
... answer . 66 Well , but think now , " pursued the lady , " just estimate the expenses . What would a carriage and horses , once purchased , cost in the year ? " " Pair of horses ? Oh , why - a hundred a - year - set it down at a hundred ...
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... to its benignant Creator in loving it too little ? ANSWER to a lady who requested the author to write some verses in her Album , declaratory of what he liked and what he disliked . You bid me mention what I like , And gaily ( 13 )
... to its benignant Creator in loving it too little ? ANSWER to a lady who requested the author to write some verses in her Album , declaratory of what he liked and what he disliked . You bid me mention what I like , And gaily ( 13 )
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... answered completely ; for so naturally did she resume this appellation , endeared to her doubtless by the remembrance of the early days of her love , that from that time forward , she was never known to blunder when addressing him ...
... answered completely ; for so naturally did she resume this appellation , endeared to her doubtless by the remembrance of the early days of her love , that from that time forward , she was never known to blunder when addressing him ...
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... answered the not- too - well - informed Mrs. Allen Barnaby . The young lady did not reply , but closed her eyes as if disposed ... answer . " It was but a day or two before we quitted London , " said the former lady , " that we paid our ...
... answered the not- too - well - informed Mrs. Allen Barnaby . The young lady did not reply , but closed her eyes as if disposed ... answer . " It was but a day or two before we quitted London , " said the former lady , " that we paid our ...
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... answer coming over American ladies with long stories about going to court , because it is the very thing of all creation that we most hate , despise , and abominate . You can't , I expect , though you do come from the old country , you ...
... answer coming over American ladies with long stories about going to court , because it is the very thing of all creation that we most hate , despise , and abominate . You can't , I expect , though you do come from the old country , you ...
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Seite 76 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Seite 160 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Seite 270 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part?
Seite 332 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Seite 569 - tis not that now I shrink from what is suffer'd : let him speak Who hath beheld decline upon my brow, Or seen my mind's convulsion leave it weak ; But in this page a record will I seek. Not in the air shall these my words disperse, Though I be ashes ; a far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic fulness of this verse, And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse ! cxxxv.
Seite 73 - Or call up him that left half -told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 94 - About an hour before sunset (for then the mice begin to run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosuies for them, which seem to be their only food. In this irregular country we can stand on an eminence and see them beat the fields over like a setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn.
Seite 519 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Seite 49 - The man who is fitted out by nature, and sent into the world with great abilities, is capable of doing great good or mischief in it.
Seite 580 - ... in such terms of his pleasure in seeing me, that I soon lost the whole of my terror ; astonishment to find him so nearly well, and gratification to see him so pleased, removed every uneasy feeling, and the joy that succeeded, in my conviction of his recovery, made me ready to throw myself at his feet to express it. What a conversation followed ! When he saw me fearless, he grew more and more alive, and made me walk close by his side, away from the attendants, and even the Willises themselves,...