The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1840 - English literature |
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... effect upon her young and affectionate friend's heart ; but the movements of the gallant and disagreeable colonel were so prompt and rapid , that the details of the change which had taken place during the last eight - and - forty hours ...
... effect upon her young and affectionate friend's heart ; but the movements of the gallant and disagreeable colonel were so prompt and rapid , that the details of the change which had taken place during the last eight - and - forty hours ...
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... effect , ' why , however flat the country is , of course , I let him poke them in , for these painters will have their way . ' " " Pray , Mr. Grindle , " said Lady Gramm , " when you were at Flo- rence , did you meet a relation of mine ...
... effect , ' why , however flat the country is , of course , I let him poke them in , for these painters will have their way . ' " " Pray , Mr. Grindle , " said Lady Gramm , " when you were at Flo- rence , did you meet a relation of mine ...
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... effects so different from those produced upon her mind in the hot closed room in which she had been for two or three hours pent , and the one crowning feeling of disinclination , not to say disgust , towards the man whom she now was ...
... effects so different from those produced upon her mind in the hot closed room in which she had been for two or three hours pent , and the one crowning feeling of disinclination , not to say disgust , towards the man whom she now was ...
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... effect pro- duced by whatever happened , was to settle the question of love at first sight for his half - brother ; and yet in all that passed , not one word did Francis speak to the disparagement of George - nor did he even mention his ...
... effect pro- duced by whatever happened , was to settle the question of love at first sight for his half - brother ; and yet in all that passed , not one word did Francis speak to the disparagement of George - nor did he even mention his ...
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... effect , insisted upon George's going in the colonel's carriage with Jane and her father , while Lady Gramm , the chaperon , and Miss Pheezle , were to be buttoned up with Sir George and Frank ; and so , in the end , it was settled ...
... effect , insisted upon George's going in the colonel's carriage with Jane and her father , while Lady Gramm , the chaperon , and Miss Pheezle , were to be buttoned up with Sir George and Frank ; and so , in the end , it was settled ...
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Page 299 - Dost thou come here to whine ? To outface me with leaping in her grave ? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Page 299 - Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Page 502 - SING aloud unto God our strength : make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Page 502 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Page 502 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Page 358 - Soften'd with the first breathings of the spring ; The high moon sails upon her beauteous way, Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces, Whose porphyry pillars, and whose costly fronts, Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles, Like altars ranged along the broad canal, Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed Rear'd up from out the waters...
Page 416 - Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. 18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her : for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled.
Page 297 - It is a common practice now-a-days, amongst a sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...
Page 83 - And the other sex — the tender — the fair — What wide reverses of fate are there ! Whilst Margaret, charm'd by the Bulbul rare, In a garden of Gul reposes — Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till— think of that, who find life so sweet !— She hates the smell of roses...
Page 502 - Praise the LORD with harp : sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.