New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 96E. W. Allen, 1852 |
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Page 129
... poor thing . I would give my life if she were well again . Are you awake , Emily ? " abruptly said Mrs. Parkins as she turned towards the bed , and spoke in a louder tone . No reply was given . In the momentary pause which followed , B ...
... poor thing . I would give my life if she were well again . Are you awake , Emily ? " abruptly said Mrs. Parkins as she turned towards the bed , and spoke in a louder tone . No reply was given . In the momentary pause which followed , B ...
Page 131
... poor lady had been cast . Mrs. Parkins was exceedingly careful in all she said , and my sister still continued wondering and doubtful as before . I should have told you , that on the morning of the tall gentleman's departure , at the ...
... poor lady had been cast . Mrs. Parkins was exceedingly careful in all she said , and my sister still continued wondering and doubtful as before . I should have told you , that on the morning of the tall gentleman's departure , at the ...
Page 133
... poor , and deserted ; wherever there is disease or distress there will you find some medical practitioner exercising his glorious art - patiently , freely , and fearlessly , for those whose poverty or vice , or the breath of pestilence ...
... poor , and deserted ; wherever there is disease or distress there will you find some medical practitioner exercising his glorious art - patiently , freely , and fearlessly , for those whose poverty or vice , or the breath of pestilence ...
Page 134
... poor lady in a fit . Mrs. Parkins was in a state of intense alarm ; and , in justice to the landlady , she was also extremely anxious . Seeing at a glance that her paroxysm was not likely to be of serious import , I first endeavoured to ...
... poor lady in a fit . Mrs. Parkins was in a state of intense alarm ; and , in justice to the landlady , she was also extremely anxious . Seeing at a glance that her paroxysm was not likely to be of serious import , I first endeavoured to ...
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... POOR EMILY ! Not long after the death of the stranger lady , the matron of the hospital informed me of some particulars that transpired immediately before the deceased's tongue was stilled for ever ; and amongst others , that her last ...
... POOR EMILY ! Not long after the death of the stranger lady , the matron of the hospital informed me of some particulars that transpired immediately before the deceased's tongue was stilled for ever ; and amongst others , that her last ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...