Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 6T. B. Sharpe, 1848 - English literature |
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... readers , but those also which examine our pages through the spectacles of the " Heads of Families , " may peruse it easily and pleasantly . The present Volume , like its immediate predecessor , consists of four months only , but for ...
... readers , but those also which examine our pages through the spectacles of the " Heads of Families , " may peruse it easily and pleasantly . The present Volume , like its immediate predecessor , consists of four months only , but for ...
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... reader trust too implicitly to appearances , he may find that he has made but a sorry bargain after all . The straightforward old chronicler who told his story from beginning to end like a fairy tale , never once doubting or suffering ...
... reader trust too implicitly to appearances , he may find that he has made but a sorry bargain after all . The straightforward old chronicler who told his story from beginning to end like a fairy tale , never once doubting or suffering ...
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... readers with an example of it . Anderton , the supposed printer of some tracts in favour of King James , was brought to trial by Queen Mary during her regency of 1693 : - : - " There was no real evidence against him , nothing but ...
... readers with an example of it . Anderton , the supposed printer of some tracts in favour of King James , was brought to trial by Queen Mary during her regency of 1693 : - : - " There was no real evidence against him , nothing but ...
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... reader may suspect ; lost and buried as I was in abstraction , my fingers had unwittingly stolen to the refused tankard , the grasp had tightened , and I had ( quite unconsciously , of course ) imbibed the greater portion of the ...
... reader may suspect ; lost and buried as I was in abstraction , my fingers had unwittingly stolen to the refused tankard , the grasp had tightened , and I had ( quite unconsciously , of course ) imbibed the greater portion of the ...
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... Reader , -even those which were never kept . " Why , there he is , after all ! Charley , my boy , come here , your kind friends have been seeking you everywhere . Approach , O knight of the broken splash - board ! -draw near and pay thy ...
... Reader , -even those which were never kept . " Why , there he is , after all ! Charley , my boy , come here , your kind friends have been seeking you everywhere . Approach , O knight of the broken splash - board ! -draw near and pay thy ...
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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.