New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 102Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a pillar of salt . This has been not inaptly B 2 The Sites of the Doomed Cities . 3.
... justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a pillar of salt . This has been not inaptly B 2 The Sites of the Doomed Cities . 3.
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... Nature herself has alone been at work here . I thought of M. de Saulcy and his imaginary ruins . I must acknow- ledge that one is easily led to see in these rocks the ruins of towns and villages . This is more precise , and , as a ...
... Nature herself has alone been at work here . I thought of M. de Saulcy and his imaginary ruins . I must acknow- ledge that one is easily led to see in these rocks the ruins of towns and villages . This is more precise , and , as a ...
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... nature as his fellow Bedouins . Show him that you are anxious to recognise in every stone squared off , by the hand of nature , a piece of antiquity ; excite his covetousness by presenting him continually with piastres , whenever he ...
... nature as his fellow Bedouins . Show him that you are anxious to recognise in every stone squared off , by the hand of nature , a piece of antiquity ; excite his covetousness by presenting him continually with piastres , whenever he ...
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... nature - I should say that , in all probability , it was their chaussure , he having a decided partiality for " a neat foot and ankle , " which he saw to the greatest advantage in bottines of the most delicate hue , the palest blue ...
... nature - I should say that , in all probability , it was their chaussure , he having a decided partiality for " a neat foot and ankle , " which he saw to the greatest advantage in bottines of the most delicate hue , the palest blue ...
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... Nature and her works . The por- traits of the Honourable Miss A. , or the young Lady B. , represented youthful females surrounded by flocks of sheep , and , crooks in hand , re- clining gracefully against a tree , listening to the ...
... Nature and her works . The por- traits of the Honourable Miss A. , or the young Lady B. , represented youthful females surrounded by flocks of sheep , and , crooks in hand , re- clining gracefully against a tree , listening to the ...
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Seite 141 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Seite 191 - There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them...
Seite 291 - Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! HIP.
Seite 126 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 187 - ... bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His...
Seite 290 - With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine, when every room Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy, I have retired me to a wasteful cock, And set mine eyes at flow.
Seite 194 - Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan ; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.
Seite 313 - When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end...
Seite 474 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 485 - Temper the soot within this vase of oil, And let the little tripod aid thy toil. On this, methinks, I see the walking crew, At thy request, support the miry shoe ; The foot grows black that was with dirt embrown'd, And in thy pocket gingling halfpence sound.