Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 17Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1845 - English literature |
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... person . There were two Calmuck chiefs and one Calmuck lady , whose countenances were of that peculiar stamp which one sees delineated upon China tea - pots , their Tartar vestments resembling in form those of the natives of the ...
... person . There were two Calmuck chiefs and one Calmuck lady , whose countenances were of that peculiar stamp which one sees delineated upon China tea - pots , their Tartar vestments resembling in form those of the natives of the ...
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... person presented the most perfect type of royalty . Without a shade of haughtiness on his brow , he looked as one born to command . The Empress , although not inheriting all the beauty of her mother , the celebrated Queen of Prussia ...
... person presented the most perfect type of royalty . Without a shade of haughtiness on his brow , he looked as one born to command . The Empress , although not inheriting all the beauty of her mother , the celebrated Queen of Prussia ...
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... person and attire , and concluded by expressing my con- viction that she could not be a Russian . " You mean the Countess A- , " said the old General ; " she is , nevertheless , a Russian , the daughter of a Cossack general , and the ...
... person and attire , and concluded by expressing my con- viction that she could not be a Russian . " You mean the Countess A- , " said the old General ; " she is , nevertheless , a Russian , the daughter of a Cossack general , and the ...
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... person but himself and his adversary being privy to the affair : for , aware of the extreme rigour with which duelling is punished by the Russian laws , he felt assured that were the family of A- to obtain any suspicion of the motive ...
... person but himself and his adversary being privy to the affair : for , aware of the extreme rigour with which duelling is punished by the Russian laws , he felt assured that were the family of A- to obtain any suspicion of the motive ...
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... person in a long pier - glass in the drawing - room , while the Countess , with something of maternal solicitude , was placing some rare exotic blossoms in the young beauty's fair hair , when the tramp of a horse's feet entering rapidly ...
... person in a long pier - glass in the drawing - room , while the Countess , with something of maternal solicitude , was placing some rare exotic blossoms in the young beauty's fair hair , when the tramp of a horse's feet entering rapidly ...
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Page 620 - And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Page 38 - Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Page 620 - So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Page 86 - Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might...
Page 388 - It is only the public situation which this gentleman holds which entitles me or induces me to say so much about him. He is a fly in amber, nobody cares about the fly : the only question is, How the Devil did it get there?
Page 620 - Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time!
Page 618 - May with floures newe, (For with the rose colour strof hire hewe; I n'ot which was the finer of hem two) Er it was day, as she was wont to do, She was arisen, and all redy dight. For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte, And sayth, arise, and do thin observance.
Page 619 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept; Come and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night: And Titan on the eastern hill Retires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth. Wash, dress, be brief in praying: Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.
Page 382 - From the beginning of the century to the death of Lord Liverpool was an awful period for those who had the misfortune to entertain liberal opinions, and who were too honest to sell them for the ermine of the judge or the lawn of the prelate ; a long and hopeless career in your profession,— the chuckling grin of noodles,— the sarcastic leer of the genuine political rogue...
Page 389 - ... bishops made over your head — reverend renegadoes advanced to the highest dignities of the Church for helping to rivet the fetters of Catholic and Protestant Dissenters, and no more chance of a Whig administration than of a thaw in Zembla...