Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 6T. B. Sharpe, 1848 - English literature |
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... round the town , to view the preparations ; and after a slight arrangement of our tournure at the glass , for we men are very vain after all - generally too vain to confess it - we all four sallied forth into the streets . My spirits ...
... round the town , to view the preparations ; and after a slight arrangement of our tournure at the glass , for we men are very vain after all - generally too vain to confess it - we all four sallied forth into the streets . My spirits ...
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... rounded by bevies of fair damsels , not one of whom his foot on the other end of the treacherous timber . A you know . How you despise the presuming atten- school - boy could have done it as well ; a half - hun- dant cavaliers who flit ...
... rounded by bevies of fair damsels , not one of whom his foot on the other end of the treacherous timber . A you know . How you despise the presuming atten- school - boy could have done it as well ; a half - hun- dant cavaliers who flit ...
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... round " Mrs. Baverstock , " said my tormentor , " don't you the broken columns ; but let us have no bread - and- think he ought to be punished ? We might borrow a butter within their time - hallowed precincts . hint from the Ancient ...
... round " Mrs. Baverstock , " said my tormentor , " don't you the broken columns ; but let us have no bread - and- think he ought to be punished ? We might borrow a butter within their time - hallowed precincts . hint from the Ancient ...
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... round his neck , and on his arm a magnificent green Cash- mere shawl . Meer Jaffur's fine figure , handsome countenance , and graceful manner , adorn any dress ; but the one in question was in such ad- mirable taste , that I could not ...
... round his neck , and on his arm a magnificent green Cash- mere shawl . Meer Jaffur's fine figure , handsome countenance , and graceful manner , adorn any dress ; but the one in question was in such ad- mirable taste , that I could not ...
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... round her face and figure . She was then care - a less charming hue must also receive suste- fully placed in an open palankeen , decorated nance , despite ceremonies , cashmeres , and stiff with cushions and tassels of green and gold ...
... round her face and figure . She was then care - a less charming hue must also receive suste- fully placed in an open palankeen , decorated nance , despite ceremonies , cashmeres , and stiff with cushions and tassels of green and gold ...
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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.