New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 119E. W. Allen, 1860 |
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... fact ! " " Such as a Strasbourg pâté , that is an unanswerable argument with most men , I believe , " said Conran , who liked to hear the boy chatter . " What are you going to do with yourself to - night , Grand ? " " I am going to - ar ...
... fact ! " " Such as a Strasbourg pâté , that is an unanswerable argument with most men , I believe , " said Conran , who liked to hear the boy chatter . " What are you going to do with yourself to - night , Grand ? " " I am going to - ar ...
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... fact , seen a woman worth a glance before . She listened to us - or rather to him , I was too awe- struck to advance much beyond monosyllables - and laughed at him , and smiled encouragingly on my gaucherie ( and when a boy is gauche ...
... fact , seen a woman worth a glance before . She listened to us - or rather to him , I was too awe- struck to advance much beyond monosyllables - and laughed at him , and smiled encouragingly on my gaucherie ( and when a boy is gauche ...
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... fact nature certainly , but which contains so readable and popular an exposition of life assurance as a plea for its more general adoption , that we think the City men and companies should not have it all to themselves . and coun- It is ...
... fact nature certainly , but which contains so readable and popular an exposition of life assurance as a plea for its more general adoption , that we think the City men and companies should not have it all to themselves . and coun- It is ...
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... of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade , the author of the valuable work well known under the title of " The Progress of the Nation . " live beyond it . Mr. Porter mentions the fact that 20 Life Assurance .
... of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade , the author of the valuable work well known under the title of " The Progress of the Nation . " live beyond it . Mr. Porter mentions the fact that 20 Life Assurance .
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live beyond it . Mr. Porter mentions the fact that , according to the " Carlisle Tables , " of 10,000 children born alive , only 8461 attain the age of a year , and only 5000 remain alive at the age of 41 ; that of 500 at that age 7 ...
live beyond it . Mr. Porter mentions the fact that , according to the " Carlisle Tables , " of 10,000 children born alive , only 8461 attain the age of a year , and only 5000 remain alive at the age of 41 ; that of 500 at that age 7 ...
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Page 39 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Page 158 - And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
Page 153 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Page 157 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme...
Page 74 - Ye woodlands all , awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds ! sweet Philomela , charm The listening shades, and teach the night his praise.
Page 310 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ; For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. And, as I watch the line of light, that plays Along the smooth wave tow'rd the burning west, I long to tread that golden path of rays, And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest.
Page 78 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Page 72 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 157 - 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...
Page 68 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.