The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance

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Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy
G. Henderson, Old Bailey, 1832
An illustrated women's magazine; includes extracts from novels, short stories, reviews, aphorisms, songs, philosophical discussions, and detailed descriptions of the latest clothing fashions from London and Paris.

From inside the book

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Common terms and phrases

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Էջ 373 - Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times opprest; It here is tried and purified, And hath in heaven its perfect rest; It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.''
Էջ 315 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towers, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy Britannia! where the queen of arts Inspiring vigour, Liberty abroad Walks
Էջ 415 - Me, perhaps, The glowing hearth may satisfy awhile With faint illumination, that uplifts The shadows to the ceiling, there, by fits. Dancing uncouthly to the quivering flame. Not undelightful is an hour to me So spent in parlour twilight: such a gloom Suits well the thoughtful or unthinking mind ; The mind contemplative, with some new theme Pregnant, or
Էջ 315 - like a brook, For ever changing, unperceiv'd the change. In the same brook none ever bath'd him twice; To the same life none ever twice awoke. We call the brook the same; the same we think Our life, though still more rapid in its flow, Nor mark the much irrevocably lapsed, And mingled with the sea.
Էջ 415 - urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cupa That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Էջ 415 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and
Էջ 394 - to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient family which
Էջ 366 - in the physical and the moral world— " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more.
Էջ 415 - Tis thus the understanding takes repose In indolent vacuity of thought, And sleeps and is refreshed." And now arrives the time of tapers and tea,
Էջ 382 - and in the darkness prest From his own soul by worldly weights. Even so, Sing, seraph, with the glory I Heaven is high ! Sing, poet, with the sorrow! Earth is low! The Universe's inward voices cry " Amen

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