The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volumes 50-51Henry Colburn, 1837 - English literature |
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... felt wonderfully dis- appointed by the manner in which her eulogiums upon the Lieutenant had been received , but that she set us down as two of the most hardened hypocrites that ever existed . What else could she think ? she had seen ...
... felt wonderfully dis- appointed by the manner in which her eulogiums upon the Lieutenant had been received , but that she set us down as two of the most hardened hypocrites that ever existed . What else could she think ? she had seen ...
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... felt bound to be unceasingly inquisitive , always , however , running poor Cuthbert eventually into a corner , and then irritating him as much as it was possible for him to be irritated by anything . This question- able system of ...
... felt bound to be unceasingly inquisitive , always , however , running poor Cuthbert eventually into a corner , and then irritating him as much as it was possible for him to be irritated by anything . This question- able system of ...
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... felt I was doing Cuthbert and his daughters - in - law an essential service in contributing to rub off the plating , which he mistook for precious metal , and by allowing his favourite the full gratification of what Kitty had more than ...
... felt I was doing Cuthbert and his daughters - in - law an essential service in contributing to rub off the plating , which he mistook for precious metal , and by allowing his favourite the full gratification of what Kitty had more than ...
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... felt it , commanded - and then con- cocted a tumbler of a similar mixture for myself - the candles burned down - the fire grew dull - the room grew cold - I could hear the ticking of the clock in the hall . " Gilbert , " said my brother ...
... felt it , commanded - and then con- cocted a tumbler of a similar mixture for myself - the candles burned down - the fire grew dull - the room grew cold - I could hear the ticking of the clock in the hall . " Gilbert , " said my brother ...
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... felt no inclination to disturb the tranquillity of the scene . A quarter after twelve - half past twelve ; at which period I was about to suggest that something extraor- dinary must have happened , but suddenly checked myself , when I ...
... felt no inclination to disturb the tranquillity of the scene . A quarter after twelve - half past twelve ; at which period I was about to suggest that something extraor- dinary must have happened , but suddenly checked myself , when I ...
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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 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 neighbourhood ring with his inimitable medley...
Page 370 - Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Page 195 - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
Page 262 - 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, which he could have enjoyed at all hours but for the single drawback of not being able to hear a note, he resorted for solace to his music-book, and began to read. The effort was unsuccessful — -a solitary crotchet, harsh and horrid, having taken possession of his mind. He drew his chair to the...
Page 196 - The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat,...
Page 226 - Of passion link the universal kind Of man so close, what wonder if to search This common nature through the various change Of sex, and age, and fortune, and the frame Of each peculiar, draw the busy mind With unresisted charms?
Page 196 - Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recall his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain.
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 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.