The Downside magazine and monthly miscellany1844 |
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... observe with no little satisfaction , the rapid progress which this excellent little corps is making . Most of our readers must remember the many delightful treats afforded by its performance some time back , and it will be gratifying ...
... observe with no little satisfaction , the rapid progress which this excellent little corps is making . Most of our readers must remember the many delightful treats afforded by its performance some time back , and it will be gratifying ...
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... observation on our part . When we look on the host of scribbling that has been perpetrated during the last ten years , what a world of trumpery , what a universe of trash , what an immensity of humbug , has rushed from the never failing ...
... observation on our part . When we look on the host of scribbling that has been perpetrated during the last ten years , what a world of trumpery , what a universe of trash , what an immensity of humbug , has rushed from the never failing ...
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... observe an unfortunate scout pitch the ball like one of his sisters would do , instead of throwing it up like a man , we indulge in laughter at his expense ; or if perchance we should be apprehensive that he could and would thrash us ...
... observe an unfortunate scout pitch the ball like one of his sisters would do , instead of throwing it up like a man , we indulge in laughter at his expense ; or if perchance we should be apprehensive that he could and would thrash us ...
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... observe an ordinary mortal run up in breathless haste , almost too late , we perhaps advise him to look sharp , but we do not feel at all inclined to laugh : but let the individual be a round , fat , red - faced , purpled , Dutch- built ...
... observe an ordinary mortal run up in breathless haste , almost too late , we perhaps advise him to look sharp , but we do not feel at all inclined to laugh : but let the individual be a round , fat , red - faced , purpled , Dutch- built ...
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... Charley O'Flannigan , observing him , came up with his copy and blandly asked him , if he would like to read another also . TO THE EDITOR OF THE DOWNSIDE MAGAZINE . O quanta 22 A FEW words of advice • 135 A real, true, actual fact.
... Charley O'Flannigan , observing him , came up with his copy and blandly asked him , if he would like to read another also . TO THE EDITOR OF THE DOWNSIDE MAGAZINE . O quanta 22 A FEW words of advice • 135 A real, true, actual fact.
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Page 140 - The' awaken'd throb for virtue, and for fame ; The sympathies of love, and friendship dear : With all the social offspring of the heart.
Page 117 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 139 - He comes ! he comes ! in every breeze the power Of philosophic melancholy comes ! His near approach the sudden-starting tear. The glowing cheek, the mild dejected air, The soften'd feature, and the beating heart, Pierc'd deep with many a virtuous pang, declare.
Page 4 - LITTLE Jack Horner sat in the corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 63 - ... tale, — * When he saw the morning mists depart From the summits grey and pale : — For he knew that the fan-palm cast the shade Of its ever-glorious green Where the love of his blasted youth was laid, And the light of her steps had been. Ah ! thus, for ever, the heart looks back To its young hope's funeral urn : — To the tender green of that early track, To its light, let us return ! The lines of our life may be smooth and strong, — And our pleasant path may lie Where the stream of affection...
Page 65 - Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem seu ratio dederit seu fors obiecerit, illa contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes...
Page 113 - A greater magnitude is said to be a multiple of a less, when the greater is measured by the less, that is, 'when the greater contains the less a certain number of times exactly.' III. Ratio is a mutual relation of two magnitudes of the same kind to one another, in respect of quantity.
Page 154 - From wealthy abbots' chests, and churls' abundant store, What oftentimes he took he shared amongst the poor: No lordly bishop came in lusty Robin's way, To him before he went, but for his pass must pay.
Page 38 - Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate!
Page 139 - O'er all the soul his sacred influence breathes ! Inflames imagination ; through the breast Infuses every tenderness ; and far Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought. Ten thousand thousand fleet ideas, such As never mingled with the vulgar dream, Crowd fast into the mind's creative eye. As fast the correspondent passions rise, As varied and as high : Devotion...