The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volume 3John Timbs 1840 |
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... reached our ear , and so unanimous has been the approval of the critical press , -that , even were we not the Prometheus of the work , we should scarcely deem our eulogy worth addition . All we shall say , is , that if the reader ex ...
... reached our ear , and so unanimous has been the approval of the critical press , -that , even were we not the Prometheus of the work , we should scarcely deem our eulogy worth addition . All we shall say , is , that if the reader ex ...
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... reached our ear , and so unanimous has been the approval of the critical press , -that , even were we not the Prometheus of the work , we should scarcely deem our eulogy worth addition . All we shall say , is , that if the reader ex ...
... reached our ear , and so unanimous has been the approval of the critical press , -that , even were we not the Prometheus of the work , we should scarcely deem our eulogy worth addition . All we shall say , is , that if the reader ex ...
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... reached the village of Waterloo . If it had been really the battle of Waterloo , the vic tory must have been Napoleon's , for it is on the Brussels side of the ground for which he fought . Odd Technology . - In the article on Asphyxia ...
... reached the village of Waterloo . If it had been really the battle of Waterloo , the vic tory must have been Napoleon's , for it is on the Brussels side of the ground for which he fought . Odd Technology . - In the article on Asphyxia ...
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... reached Ham- burgh . He had not , however , passed many weeks from the night of the murder , be- fore one day , in the crowded street , he heard his name called by a voice familiar to him he turned short round , and saw the face of his ...
... reached Ham- burgh . He had not , however , passed many weeks from the night of the murder , be- fore one day , in the crowded street , he heard his name called by a voice familiar to him he turned short round , and saw the face of his ...
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... reached Madrid about the end of March , and prevailed there the whole of April . In Germany the influenza appeared at Berlin in January , affected Dresden some- what later , and Vienna and Munich a fortnight after Dresden . At Hamburgh ...
... reached Madrid about the end of March , and prevailed there the whole of April . In Germany the influenza appeared at Berlin in January , affected Dresden some- what later , and Vienna and Munich a fortnight after Dresden . At Hamburgh ...
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Page 200 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 166 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night.
Page 110 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 165 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Page 159 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!
Page 159 - Yes, there is a man in Westmoreland, And Johnny Armstrong they do him call." There, now, you plunge at once into the subject. You have no previous narration to lead you to it. The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good : "Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state'.
Page 378 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 337 - Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
Page 268 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 49 - Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.