The North American Miscellany, Volum 2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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Pàgina 5
... wish to speak to you alone . ” ? I need not now be ashamed to confess that I was over head and ears in love with -or what , in military language , we irrever- ently denominated , spoony on - Mary Bol- ton ; nor can such an event be a ...
... wish to speak to you alone . ” ? I need not now be ashamed to confess that I was over head and ears in love with -or what , in military language , we irrever- ently denominated , spoony on - Mary Bol- ton ; nor can such an event be a ...
Pàgina 6
... wish to sell him for fifty pounds . I believe him to be worth a good deal more ; and papa says he would at any time command that price ; so I thought , Mr. that perhaps you could dispose of him for me : only I want the money immediately ...
... wish to sell him for fifty pounds . I believe him to be worth a good deal more ; and papa says he would at any time command that price ; so I thought , Mr. that perhaps you could dispose of him for me : only I want the money immediately ...
Pàgina 7
... wish you could but live the last half - hour of your life over again ; some- thing whispers , " too late ! -too late ! " Mary Bolton gave me no opportunity of explanation certainly ; I danced with her , but a country - dance is a bad ...
... wish you could but live the last half - hour of your life over again ; some- thing whispers , " too late ! -too late ! " Mary Bolton gave me no opportunity of explanation certainly ; I danced with her , but a country - dance is a bad ...
Pàgina 9
... wish it known to any one ; and , " poor dear , " as the old nurse added , " she sold her horse , that , I've heard her say , she loved like a Christian , to be hunted to death by one of them soger - officers , God forgive ' em , " to ...
... wish it known to any one ; and , " poor dear , " as the old nurse added , " she sold her horse , that , I've heard her say , she loved like a Christian , to be hunted to death by one of them soger - officers , God forgive ' em , " to ...
Pàgina 11
... wish to see ) behind him , came “ sacré - ing " on in my very teeth , with such determination that I saw a collision was unavoidable . He was upon me like lightning ; and I had just time to draw my sword , parry his thrust , and re ...
... wish to see ) behind him , came “ sacré - ing " on in my very teeth , with such determination that I saw a collision was unavoidable . He was upon me like lightning ; and I had just time to draw my sword , parry his thrust , and re ...
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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.