The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volum 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pàgina 1
... thought there could be no doubt whatever of the young lady's acceding to any arrangements which would bring her and the man whom she liked under the same roof ; more especially after she had , as she thought , effectually succeeded in ...
... thought there could be no doubt whatever of the young lady's acceding to any arrangements which would bring her and the man whom she liked under the same roof ; more especially after she had , as she thought , effectually succeeded in ...
Pàgina 5
... thought it my duty - and I hope to be forgiven for what I have done to write and tell you the truth . " I have no motive , sir , and can have none , but acting for the best . I know that Miss Jane is good and excellent in every way ...
... thought it my duty - and I hope to be forgiven for what I have done to write and tell you the truth . " I have no motive , sir , and can have none , but acting for the best . I know that Miss Jane is good and excellent in every way ...
Pàgina 6
... thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she wished to succeed , still if the colonel was to be made aware of it , she , and she only , was the person to warn him . And so , as it seems ...
... thought the schemes of the Amershams . For although it was the scheme of all others which she wished to succeed , still if the colonel was to be made aware of it , she , and she only , was the person to warn him . And so , as it seems ...
Pàgina 7
... thought was a hard hit , which might be useful in the prosecution of her own project . " I don't know what you mean by confidante , " said Bruff , " be- cause I don't know the language ; but she takes an interest in my affairs . " " Yes ...
... thought was a hard hit , which might be useful in the prosecution of her own project . " I don't know what you mean by confidante , " said Bruff , " be- cause I don't know the language ; but she takes an interest in my affairs . " " Yes ...
Pàgina 13
... thought he might perhaps be useful to him , if not in business , at least in diverting his mind while he was an invalid . " " So , " thought Bruff , " then the man has never been here after all . Smylar's a fool ; and I am dragged away ...
... thought he might perhaps be useful to him , if not in business , at least in diverting his mind while he was an invalid . " " So , " thought Bruff , " then the man has never been here after all . Smylar's a fool ; and I am dragged away ...
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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.