The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volum 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Pàgina 87
... appeared , as if by magic , to be made acquainted with his plans , and the storming party was repelled with loss . He at length discovered that certain fair dames of the town of Kufstein , who met with no cold recep- tion from his ...
... appeared , as if by magic , to be made acquainted with his plans , and the storming party was repelled with loss . He at length discovered that certain fair dames of the town of Kufstein , who met with no cold recep- tion from his ...
Pàgina 89
... appeared to be to open communications with the other leaders before they should have consulted together , and thus ... appearance in the Austrian court at such a moment were the acting motives for his decision . Certain it is that ...
... appeared to be to open communications with the other leaders before they should have consulted together , and thus ... appearance in the Austrian court at such a moment were the acting motives for his decision . Certain it is that ...
Pàgina 90
... appeared to be looked upon as already settled , and other more im- portant because more imminent events must be cared for . It was while these considerations passing rapidly through his mind seemed to open his eyes to the false step he ...
... appeared to be looked upon as already settled , and other more im- portant because more imminent events must be cared for . It was while these considerations passing rapidly through his mind seemed to open his eyes to the false step he ...
Pàgina 93
... appeared ubiquitous ; wherever the contest raged fiercest , his arm was raised to strike ; whenever his men wavered for a moment under the attacks of a superior force , his encour- aging voice was heard ; he encountered more risks than ...
... appeared ubiquitous ; wherever the contest raged fiercest , his arm was raised to strike ; whenever his men wavered for a moment under the attacks of a superior force , his encour- aging voice was heard ; he encountered more risks than ...
Pàgina 96
... appeared in the Inspruck journals , and that Hofer found himself obliged to abandon even that capital , which it had been the object of his friends ' projects to protect . Spechbacher , meantime , was doomed to pay the penalty of the ...
... appeared in the Inspruck journals , and that Hofer found himself obliged to abandon even that capital , which it had been the object of his friends ' projects to protect . Spechbacher , meantime , was doomed to pay the penalty of the ...
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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.