New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 50, Part 1Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, William Ainsworth, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth 1837 |
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... seemed extremely likely that the real state of the case had oozed out during the afternoon , and that he might favour us with the domestic version of the " soger officer's " inglorious retreat . Cuthbert , whose consummate skill in the ...
... seemed extremely likely that the real state of the case had oozed out during the afternoon , and that he might favour us with the domestic version of the " soger officer's " inglorious retreat . Cuthbert , whose consummate skill in the ...
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... seemed a little out of sorts at first , but he soon recovered his usual good temper , and has played off our visiter to the greatest possible advantage . However , adieu for the present ; I think half - an - hour will terminate our ...
... seemed a little out of sorts at first , but he soon recovered his usual good temper , and has played off our visiter to the greatest possible advantage . However , adieu for the present ; I think half - an - hour will terminate our ...
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... seemed disposed , late as it was , to make up his rubber , which , amidst the interest he took in Mrs. Brandyball's au- tobiography had slipped out of his mind , when , to my great relief , -for I longed to get up to Harriet , who was ...
... seemed disposed , late as it was , to make up his rubber , which , amidst the interest he took in Mrs. Brandyball's au- tobiography had slipped out of his mind , when , to my great relief , -for I longed to get up to Harriet , who was ...
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... seemed to ring in my ears to a popular air , which I fancied I traced in the ticking of the clock . " Yaah , " said Cuthbert , " I'm getting sleepy myself . " 66 Hadn't you better go to bed ? " said I. " No , no , " replied my brother ...
... seemed to ring in my ears to a popular air , which I fancied I traced in the ticking of the clock . " Yaah , " said Cuthbert , " I'm getting sleepy myself . " 66 Hadn't you better go to bed ? " said I. " No , no , " replied my brother ...
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... seemed so particularly odd in the whole of the business was , that the day on which so disagreeable an event had occurred in Wells's family should have been fixed upon for what really was an unusual gaiety there . I found , however ...
... seemed so particularly odd in the whole of the business was , that the day on which so disagreeable an event had occurred in Wells's family should have been fixed upon for what really was an unusual gaiety there . I found , however ...
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Page 370 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 580 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before...
Page 432 - gainst every odds— and I've gained the victory. Our captain sent for all of us; my merry men, said he, I havn't the gift of the gab, my lads, but yet I thankful be; You've done your duty handsomely, each man stood to his gun, If you hadn't, you villains, as sure as day, I'd have flogged each mother's son. Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I'm at sea, I'll fight 'gainst every odds — and I'll gain the victory.
Page 58 - Vous êtes assurée ici d'un plein secret, » Et le mal n'est jamais que dans l'éclat qu'on fait. Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait l'offense, Et ce n'est pas pécher que pécher en silence.
Page 322 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Page 262 - ... at two yards' distance. He went home (as I afterwards learned) to a solitary dinner, instead of dining at the club, as he had intended. The hint thrown out touching this new feature of his deafness, had induced him to change his mind, and to avoid company until he had had a little self-communion. He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing down the obstinate doubt that threatened to become an impediment to his ever speaking again with any confidence or comfort. Naturally fond of music,...
Page 229 - What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation ? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from...
Page 195 - In his native groves, mounted on the top of a tall bush, or half-grown tree, in the dawn of dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises pre-eminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Page 139 - Upon this development of the motives, the views, and the consistency of the above-mentioned band of patriots, Johnson once remarked to me, that it had given more strength to government than all that had been written in its defence, meaning thereby, that it had destroyed all confidence in men of that character.
Page 196 - Both in his native and domesticated state, during the solemn stillness of night, as soon as the moon rises in silent majesty, he begins his delightful solo, and serenades us the livelong night with a full display of his vocal powers, making the whole neighborhood ring with his inimitable medley.