The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volum 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pàgina 4
... course of which she might have extracted from her the circumstances on which her apprehensions were grounded ; but suspecting as she did that Miss Harris was not entirely indifferent to Mr. Rumfit , whose presumptuous advances she ...
... course of which she might have extracted from her the circumstances on which her apprehensions were grounded ; but suspecting as she did that Miss Harris was not entirely indifferent to Mr. Rumfit , whose presumptuous advances she ...
Pàgina 5
... course by that night's post reached Harley- street , and in less than ten minutes after its arrival was opened and read by Mrs. Smylar , who , taking into her kind consideration the ad- vancing age and increasing infirmities of her ...
... course by that night's post reached Harley- street , and in less than ten minutes after its arrival was opened and read by Mrs. Smylar , who , taking into her kind consideration the ad- vancing age and increasing infirmities of her ...
Pàgina 6
... course she was on the in- stant to pursue . That question was settled . The moment she saw the colonel she would open his eyes to what she thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she ...
... course she was on the in- stant to pursue . That question was settled . The moment she saw the colonel she would open his eyes to what she thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she ...
Pàgina 11
... course , the remotest notion of seeing him there , and Mrs. Amersham , to whom he had never paid the civility of even a morning visit for years , felt almost frightened at his approach . " My dear father ! " said Jane , running to meet ...
... course , the remotest notion of seeing him there , and Mrs. Amersham , to whom he had never paid the civility of even a morning visit for years , felt almost frightened at his approach . " My dear father ! " said Jane , running to meet ...
Pàgina 14
... course welcomed in a house , under the roof of which his only daughter was an inmate ; but a visit of his being as we have seen so unusual , its effect was proportionably remarkable , its object and intention turning out complete ...
... course welcomed in a house , under the roof of which his only daughter was an inmate ; but a visit of his being as we have seen so unusual , its effect was proportionably remarkable , its object and intention turning out complete ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 477 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Pàgina 86 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Pàgina 201 - Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water ; but the swallow alone, in general, washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together : in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny weather sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops...
Pàgina 201 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Pàgina 86 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Pàgina 427 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Pàgina 86 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Pàgina 547 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!
Pàgina 483 - The cuckoo's a fine bird, he sings as he flies; he brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies. He sucks little birds' eggs to make his voice clear; and when he sings „cuckoo!
Pàgina 85 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.