Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 6T. B. Sharpe, 1848 - English literature |
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... head , would only prove thereby that he had no heart at all , and so , being deficient in one half , and that the more important , of spiritual organiza- tion , would be of all men the least likely to pronounce a true judgment in any ...
... head , would only prove thereby that he had no heart at all , and so , being deficient in one half , and that the more important , of spiritual organiza- tion , would be of all men the least likely to pronounce a true judgment in any ...
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... head on the table . My friend made no reply , but , as though she ruled him who was emphatically ringing the bell , calmly awaited the entrance of the her lord and master , and promises to " govern waiter ; that functionary , he of the ...
... head on the table . My friend made no reply , but , as though she ruled him who was emphatically ringing the bell , calmly awaited the entrance of the her lord and master , and promises to " govern waiter ; that functionary , he of the ...
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... head to the sole of the foot , repassing them from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head , and retiring after a low salaam . I fancied I could perceive a pitiable shrinking of the suffering bridegroom from the bony hands of some ...
... head to the sole of the foot , repassing them from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head , and retiring after a low salaam . I fancied I could perceive a pitiable shrinking of the suffering bridegroom from the bony hands of some ...
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... heads and necks of the animals , looked up with an ex- pression of astonishment into his face , as much as to say ... head turned towards the quarter from which the sounds had proceeded . " I wouldn't give second - hand price for the ...
... heads and necks of the animals , looked up with an ex- pression of astonishment into his face , as much as to say ... head turned towards the quarter from which the sounds had proceeded . " I wouldn't give second - hand price for the ...
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... head ever grow giddy with the incessant clatter of manu- factories , the whirl of railroads , the babble of parliamentary questions about food and cloth- ing , taxation and locomotion , corn and cotton , the broad and the narrow gauge ...
... head ever grow giddy with the incessant clatter of manu- factories , the whirl of railroads , the babble of parliamentary questions about food and cloth- ing , taxation and locomotion , corn and cotton , the broad and the narrow gauge ...
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Page 212 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 214 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 241 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Page 37 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 173 - And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land ; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Page 38 - Stand, never overlook'd our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Page 181 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records...
Page 214 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels * bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 36 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 11 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.