New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Հատոր 108

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Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Hood, William Ainsworth
Henry Colburn, 1856

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Էջ 307 - Serve to exalt ; they build up greatest things From least suggestions ; ever on the watch, Willing to work and to be wrought upon. They need not extraordinary calls To rouse them ; in a world of life they live, By sensible impressions not enthralled. But by their quickening impulse made more prompt To hold fit converse with the spiritual world...
Էջ 460 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleet-ditch.
Էջ 307 - Such minds are truly from the Deity, For they are Powers ; and hence the highest bliss That flesh can know is theirs — the consciousness Of Whom they are, habitually infused Through every image and through every thought, And all affections by communion raised From earth to heaven, from human to divine...
Էջ 138 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Էջ 251 - THIS is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid 'that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp*, and an approaching peace.
Էջ 468 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen ; Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Էջ 139 - The world improves in one virtue to a violent degree, I mean plain-dealing. Hypocrisy being, as the Scripture declares, a damnable sin, I hope our publicans and sinners will be saved by the open profession of the contrary virtue. I was told by a very good author, who is deep in the secret, that at this very minute there is a bill cooking-up at a hunting-seat in Norfolk,* to have not taken out of the commandments and clapped into the creed, the ensuing session of parliament.
Էջ 443 - He told us of Cooke who translated Hesiod and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus for which he was always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner: "This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother.
Էջ 240 - Post,' in 1695, announces, that ' if any gentleman has a mind to oblige his country friend or correspondent with this account of public affairs, he may have it for 2d. of J. Salisbury, at the Rising Sun in Cornhill, on a sheet of fine paper ; half of which being blank, he may thereon write his own private business, or the material news of the day.
Էջ 394 - ... through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the watershed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland Seas ; and having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown...

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