New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 83Henry Colburn, 1848 |
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... felt there was some truth in Maria's observation that they would be discarding Charles without " sounding him , " a practice that she was not at all given to , though she much feared that the Dumps ' representations as to his probable ...
... felt there was some truth in Maria's observation that they would be discarding Charles without " sounding him , " a practice that she was not at all given to , though she much feared that the Dumps ' representations as to his probable ...
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... felt I had almost said is heard by the thrilling heart . Ha ! was that a cricket's chirping ? No , nothing so cheerful . ' Tis the expiring fire clicking its own death - watch . See ! a fresh coal flares up for a moment , casting ...
... felt I had almost said is heard by the thrilling heart . Ha ! was that a cricket's chirping ? No , nothing so cheerful . ' Tis the expiring fire clicking its own death - watch . See ! a fresh coal flares up for a moment , casting ...
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... felt a contempt for those who credit the existence of apparitions , goblins , spectral mani- festations , and all the raw - head and bloody - bones of the nursery . Ridi- culous trash ! fit only for brain - sick old women of either sex ...
... felt a contempt for those who credit the existence of apparitions , goblins , spectral mani- festations , and all the raw - head and bloody - bones of the nursery . Ridi- culous trash ! fit only for brain - sick old women of either sex ...
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... felt both indignant and ashamed , and petulantly turning round the glass with its face to the wall so that it could not again delude me , I threw myself back into my arm chair . But my mind could not recover its serenity , nor could I ...
... felt both indignant and ashamed , and petulantly turning round the glass with its face to the wall so that it could not again delude me , I threw myself back into my arm chair . But my mind could not recover its serenity , nor could I ...
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... felt that while they gave me superior rights , they imposed upon me commensurate duties ; never reflected that the bestower of all my gifts and advantages would one day demand from me an exact account of my stewardship . Occasional ...
... felt that while they gave me superior rights , they imposed upon me commensurate duties ; never reflected that the bestower of all my gifts and advantages would one day demand from me an exact account of my stewardship . Occasional ...
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Seite 52 - Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Seite 412 - Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Seite 301 - Upon a brow more fierce than that, — Sullenly fierce — a mixture dire, Like thunder-clouds, of gloom and fire; In which the Peri's eye could read Dark tales of many a ruthless deed; The ruin'd maid — the shrine profaned — Oaths broken — and the threshold stain'd With blood of guests!
Seite 411 - That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when Truth would set them free. Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Seite 15 - Scottish descent, and flourished at the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh century, having died in the year of our Lord 606.
Seite 533 - On that first evening-, my aunt was lying insensible, to all appearance like one dying, — my father, with his poor forehead plastered over, from a wound he had received from a daughter dearly loved by him, and who loved him no less dearly, — my mother, a dead and murdered corpse, in the next room — yet was I wonderfully supported.
Seite 103 - Sir," replied the old wiseacre, " he was a fool. The right word never came to him. If you gave him back a bad shilling, he'd say, Why' it's as good a shilling as ever was born. You know he ought to have said coined. Coined, sir, never entered his head. He was a fool, sir.
Seite 99 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Seite 413 - Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Seite 533 - God be praised, Coleridge, wonderful as it is to tell, I have never once been otherwise than collected and calm; even on the dreadful day, and in the midst of the terrible scene, I preserved a tranquillity which bystanders may have 40 construed into indifference — a tranquillity not of despair.