The North American Miscellany, Volum 2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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Pàgina 12
... asking for the offi- cer in command , he presented “ Monsieur le capitaine's " compliments , and begged that his men might be allowed to water their horses at the spring without molestation . This request was instantly and graciously ...
... asking for the offi- cer in command , he presented “ Monsieur le capitaine's " compliments , and begged that his men might be allowed to water their horses at the spring without molestation . This request was instantly and graciously ...
Pàgina 27
... asked her in marriage . The charm of a superior fortune which he possessed soon induced her parent to change his resolution with respect to his neighbor's son ; and the daughter's aversion to her new lover being overcome by her filial ...
... asked her in marriage . The charm of a superior fortune which he possessed soon induced her parent to change his resolution with respect to his neighbor's son ; and the daughter's aversion to her new lover being overcome by her filial ...
Pàgina 30
... asked he , tomb . " is she not with you ? " They were silent , and he guessed the cause of her absence . His grief was intense and overwhelming , but he said nothing , and determined to see her once more . As soon as he had an op ...
... asked he , tomb . " is she not with you ? " They were silent , and he guessed the cause of her absence . His grief was intense and overwhelming , but he said nothing , and determined to see her once more . As soon as he had an op ...
Pàgina 36
... asked her to go down . Forgetting a previous appointment with my former antagonist , she accepted my offer , and the latter just arrived in time to see us start from the hill . In his rage he deter- mined to do me some mischief by ...
... asked her to go down . Forgetting a previous appointment with my former antagonist , she accepted my offer , and the latter just arrived in time to see us start from the hill . In his rage he deter- mined to do me some mischief by ...
Pàgina 39
... asked ? On the contrary , each autograph is but an infinitesimal contribution to a book which the collector takes much pride in showing ; a book in which notorieties of all dimensions , from Dr. Johnson to Dr. Dodd - from John Milton to ...
... asked ? On the contrary , each autograph is but an infinitesimal contribution to a book which the collector takes much pride in showing ; a book in which notorieties of all dimensions , from Dr. Johnson to Dr. Dodd - from John Milton to ...
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Pàgina 496 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Pàgina 394 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Pàgina 3 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Pàgina 496 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Pàgina 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Pàgina 251 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Pàgina 248 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pàgina 128 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Pàgina 231 - The Cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Pàgina 250 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.