The Original: A New Miscellany of Humour, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Հատոր 1G. Cowie, 1832 |
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... things of wondrous weight " Who was he ? Some great man by his figure . - Was it the Duke of Buckingham - It was ... thing promised a favorable issue to my attempt ; I passed him , as he walked between me and the lamp . I stared full ...
... things of wondrous weight " Who was he ? Some great man by his figure . - Was it the Duke of Buckingham - It was ... thing promised a favorable issue to my attempt ; I passed him , as he walked between me and the lamp . I stared full ...
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... thing that exists is , either positively or relatively , possessed of those qualities ; and , should the worth of any object not be immediately apparent , it must be sought for in the uses to which it is capable of being applied : and ...
... thing that exists is , either positively or relatively , possessed of those qualities ; and , should the worth of any object not be immediately apparent , it must be sought for in the uses to which it is capable of being applied : and ...
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... thing , " said he , " and that is the portrait of my first wife- for this is my second . " - " But , " said the artist , she is dead , you know Sir , what can I do ; she is only to be admitted as arm . an angel .- " Oh no ! not at all ...
... thing , " said he , " and that is the portrait of my first wife- for this is my second . " - " But , " said the artist , she is dead , you know Sir , what can I do ; she is only to be admitted as arm . an angel .- " Oh no ! not at all ...
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... thing for both of us was , for me to spring back into the steamer again . " " And the strange light ? " I added . " Oh , it was the water as made that ; it was lighted by a lamp a - head of the steamer , which you couldn't see . " We ...
... thing for both of us was , for me to spring back into the steamer again . " " And the strange light ? " I added . " Oh , it was the water as made that ; it was lighted by a lamp a - head of the steamer , which you couldn't see . " We ...
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... thing shows that the whole festival must and will be confined to the long and narrow Corso . Finally , the centre of the street is strewed with pozzolano , in order that the race horses may not be liable to slip upon the polished ...
... thing shows that the whole festival must and will be confined to the long and narrow Corso . Finally , the centre of the street is strewed with pozzolano , in order that the race horses may not be liable to slip upon the polished ...
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admiration amusing appear beautiful better Brother Merry called character Cholera Morbus concert Covent Garden dear death delight devil Ditto Drury Lane Editor effect English EPIGRAM exhibited eyes fair father fear feeling gentleman give hand Handel happy Haydn head heard heart honour hope Idomeneo interest Jack Thompson Judas Maccabeus King KING'S THEATRE lady live London look Lord Lord Byron Ludgate Hill Madame Madame Vestris matter Memnon ment mind Miss morning Mozart nature never night o'er once Opera party passed performance person played poor present racter readers replied Robert Steadman scarcely scene seemed Smith of Apolda song soon soul spirit stand Street style sure sweet taste theatre thee THEOPHRASTUS thing thou thought tion took Vishnu voice wife words young
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Էջ 210 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
Էջ 259 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Էջ 26 - Lord Byron's reading did not seem to me to have been very extensive either in poetry or history. Having the advantage of him in that respect, and possessing a good competent share of such reading as is little read, I was sometimes able to put under his eye objects which had for him the interest of novelty.
Էջ 148 - Her grief restrained its tears. One eve a light shone round her bed, And there she saw him stand — Her infant in his little shroud, A taper in his hand. " Lo ! mother, see my shroud is dry, And I can sleep once more !" And beautiful the parting smile The little infant wore.
Էջ 148 - Twas hard to lay him there, When spring was putting forth its flowers, And everything was fair. She had lost many children — now The last of them was gone ; And day and night she sat and wept Beside the funeral stone. One midnight while her constant tears Were falling with the dew, She heard a voice, and lo ! her child Stood by her weeping, too. His shroud was damp, his face was white : He said, " I cannot sleep, Your tears have made my shroud so wet : Oh, mother, do not weep...
Էջ 204 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide. And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Էջ 88 - I took Moore's poems and my own and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished ( I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even imagination, passion, and invention, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the Lower Empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us ; and if I had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly.
Էջ 88 - I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope, whom I tried in this way: I took Moore's poems and my own and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even imagination, passion, and invention, between the little Queen Anne's man and us of the Lower Empire.
Էջ 167 - Granada, who kept all the saints' days and holidays, and Saint Monday into the bargain, and yet, with all his devotion, he grew poorer and poorer, and could scarcely earn bread for his numerous family. One night he was roused from his first sleep by a knocking at his door. He opened it, and beheld before him a tall meagre, cadaverous-looking priest.
Էջ 149 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.