The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1840 - English literature |
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... keep up the ball , and even proceeded to the dangerous expedient of rallying Frank on his dulness . The reply was merely the expression of an unconsciousness of any particular " stupidity " on the occasion , and George's observation ...
... keep up the ball , and even proceeded to the dangerous expedient of rallying Frank on his dulness . The reply was merely the expression of an unconsciousness of any particular " stupidity " on the occasion , and George's observation ...
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... keeping up a conversation calculated to ward off any allusion to the matter nearest her father's heart . She affected good spirits , and as they passed the walls of the noble establishment which dignifies the sur- rounding dirt , she ...
... keeping up a conversation calculated to ward off any allusion to the matter nearest her father's heart . She affected good spirits , and as they passed the walls of the noble establishment which dignifies the sur- rounding dirt , she ...
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... keeping the beaten track , they all lost the cry of the pack , and , consequently , as pretty a hunt , for about six miles over the open country , as any one could desire to see . The singularity of the fact consists in this , -that out ...
... keeping the beaten track , they all lost the cry of the pack , and , consequently , as pretty a hunt , for about six miles over the open country , as any one could desire to see . The singularity of the fact consists in this , -that out ...
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... keep in mind , it is this which must teach me to raise my eye undaunted , forget- ful that my home has been a farmhouse , and my kindred the tillers of the soil . " At this moment the cab drew up suddenly , very suddenly , and Charles ...
... keep in mind , it is this which must teach me to raise my eye undaunted , forget- ful that my home has been a farmhouse , and my kindred the tillers of the soil . " At this moment the cab drew up suddenly , very suddenly , and Charles ...
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... keep it , Mr. Chesterfield . Good morning . " It was very judicious , and quite right in the young lady , to make the ceremony of dismissal thus clear ; for the feeling of fear , very nearly amounting to dislike , which Charles had ...
... keep it , Mr. Chesterfield . Good morning . " It was very judicious , and quite right in the young lady , to make the ceremony of dismissal thus clear ; for the feeling of fear , very nearly amounting to dislike , which Charles had ...
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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.