The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1847 - English literature |
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... turning up their eyes , eternally nodding their heads from their canvass , crucifixes slinking down from their crosses and roaming about like uneasy ghosts ; Madonnas shifting their quarters across seas and mountains , with goods and ...
... turning up their eyes , eternally nodding their heads from their canvass , crucifixes slinking down from their crosses and roaming about like uneasy ghosts ; Madonnas shifting their quarters across seas and mountains , with goods and ...
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... turned into ashes ; for at every step in those eternal palace stairs , beauty kindles as it climbs , so that , but for the interference of a tempering medium , but for a partial eclipse , mortal ken would shrink from it , even as a leaf ...
... turned into ashes ; for at every step in those eternal palace stairs , beauty kindles as it climbs , so that , but for the interference of a tempering medium , but for a partial eclipse , mortal ken would shrink from it , even as a leaf ...
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... For our own part we are anxious to see Dante turned into literal but eloquent prose , though such an achievement , we are aware , would require pens tempered somewhat after the fashion of the old biblical 16 The Spirit of Dante .
... For our own part we are anxious to see Dante turned into literal but eloquent prose , though such an achievement , we are aware , would require pens tempered somewhat after the fashion of the old biblical 16 The Spirit of Dante .
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... turned towards her , gazing at her steadfastly . She thought him remarkably handsome , and certainly there was something in his air and manner which distinguished him from every one else in the room . He was a young man , too , tall and ...
... turned towards her , gazing at her steadfastly . She thought him remarkably handsome , and certainly there was something in his air and manner which distinguished him from every one else in the room . He was a young man , too , tall and ...
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... turned deadly pale again , but he made no answer for several moments . When he did speak , he asked somewhat abruptly , " Is she still living in this neighbourhood ? " " Oh , yes , ” replied Miss Harding , " she is living at her house ...
... turned deadly pale again , but he made no answer for several moments . When he did speak , he asked somewhat abruptly , " Is she still living in this neighbourhood ? " " Oh , yes , ” replied Miss Harding , " she is living at her house ...
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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...