The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1847 - English literature |
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... interests with the great cause of mankind . But parties , in the middle ages , however hostile , were never bent on utter extermination . They loved fighting for its own sake , they warred for the assertion of unmeaning claims , for the ...
... interests with the great cause of mankind . But parties , in the middle ages , however hostile , were never bent on utter extermination . They loved fighting for its own sake , they warred for the assertion of unmeaning claims , for the ...
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... interest , which I should much wish to write even here . The construction of my tale will not let me ; but I promise to return to it hereafter , and give its details . I must therefore pass over about a fortnight in silence , and , for ...
... interest , which I should much wish to write even here . The construction of my tale will not let me ; but I promise to return to it hereafter , and give its details . I must therefore pass over about a fortnight in silence , and , for ...
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... interest the reader in the slightest manner to repeat . Allan Fairfax arrived in safety , about three o'clock on the following day , at an inn in the giant of cities . it . He instantly set out for the chambers of a lawyer Margaret ...
... interest the reader in the slightest manner to repeat . Allan Fairfax arrived in safety , about three o'clock on the following day , at an inn in the giant of cities . it . He instantly set out for the chambers of a lawyer Margaret ...
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... interest , whether he sold spirits of turpentine ? .66 Sir , I have at this moment one hundred and eighty - seven carboys of spirits of turpentine in my warehouse , " was the reply . " Good , good ; and they are highly inflammable , I ...
... interest , whether he sold spirits of turpentine ? .66 Sir , I have at this moment one hundred and eighty - seven carboys of spirits of turpentine in my warehouse , " was the reply . " Good , good ; and they are highly inflammable , I ...
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... interest shown by Monsieur Felix , that I did not hesitate to tell him all that had occurred , from the hour of my abrupt departure from Bourg la Reine up to that time , and on his questioning me still further , I added all I knew of my ...
... interest shown by Monsieur Felix , that I did not hesitate to tell him all that had occurred , from the hour of my abrupt departure from Bourg la Reine up to that time , and on his questioning me still further , I added all I knew of my ...
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Page 294 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 400 - How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity...
Page 191 - Shakspeare, that none of them, as far as we know, have ever thought of availing themselves of his sonnets for tracing the circumstances of his life. These sonnets paint most unequivocally the actual situation and sentiments of the poet; they enable us to become acquainted with the passions of the man; they even contain the most remarkable confessions of his youthful errors.
Page 322 - Give that, and welcome War to brace Her drums and rend heaven's reeking space ! The colours planted face to face, The charging cheer, Though Death's Pale Horse lead on the chase, Shall still be dear.
Page 42 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 481 - We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together, that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships could pass, the waves breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of...
Page 479 - ESE, close along the lofty perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure could we discover throughout its whole extent, and the intensely bright sky beyond it but too plainly indicated the great distance to which it reached to the southward.
Page 224 - Nor are the banks less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation, resembling in some measure those of the Thames near Richmond. From the very brink of the river, there rises a gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak. Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting, as it does, the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded steam-boats...
Page 477 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean.
Page 481 - ... against the precipitous faces of the bergs; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then forcing them again far beneath their water-line, and sometimes rending them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different circumstances, to us it was awful, if not appalling. For eight hours we had been gradually drifting towards what to human eyes appeared inevitable destruction : the high waves and deep...