The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volum 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pàgina 26
... whilst his heart beat with vivid emotion at every transition of her beautiful countenance , and every flash of her brilliant eyes . He at length , by assiduity and bribery , obtained the entrée to the stage and foyer and attended the ...
... whilst his heart beat with vivid emotion at every transition of her beautiful countenance , and every flash of her brilliant eyes . He at length , by assiduity and bribery , obtained the entrée to the stage and foyer and attended the ...
Pàgina 54
... whilst two or three , with a cur dog or so , put him up out of his den . He of course tries to es- cape , when silence leads him to expect no enemy at hand ; and then the shots , placed at about forty yards apart , kill him when he ...
... whilst two or three , with a cur dog or so , put him up out of his den . He of course tries to es- cape , when silence leads him to expect no enemy at hand ; and then the shots , placed at about forty yards apart , kill him when he ...
Pàgina 63
... whilst I , who could hardly write a stanza if my life depended upon it , understand with the nicest accuracy the varying value of every species of property , with its real worth and annual returns , as thoroughly as a shepherd knows his ...
... whilst I , who could hardly write a stanza if my life depended upon it , understand with the nicest accuracy the varying value of every species of property , with its real worth and annual returns , as thoroughly as a shepherd knows his ...
Pàgina 108
... whilst the rear of the building , on the first and second floors , are devoted to the purposes of the tribunals ; beauty , order , cleanliness , ventilation , warmth , a good ordered police , ample accommodation to all who visit or ...
... whilst the rear of the building , on the first and second floors , are devoted to the purposes of the tribunals ; beauty , order , cleanliness , ventilation , warmth , a good ordered police , ample accommodation to all who visit or ...
Pàgina 112
... Whilst all this has been proceeding within the Bourse , other opera- tions have been going on without . Who is that old gentleman , pale , sour , ugly , vulgar , and inquisitive , sitting in a green French landau , on the Place de la ...
... Whilst all this has been proceeding within the Bourse , other opera- tions have been going on without . Who is that old gentleman , pale , sour , ugly , vulgar , and inquisitive , sitting in a green French landau , on the Place de la ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.