The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued as] The Pocket magazine, Հատոր 71821 |
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Արդյունքներ 49–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... Heaven be thanked , I feel tolerably well in my old age ; yet , according to the customary course of nature , I can , at the very utmost , only expect to live eight minutes more . What then avails all my in- dustry ? What avails it ...
... Heaven be thanked , I feel tolerably well in my old age ; yet , according to the customary course of nature , I can , at the very utmost , only expect to live eight minutes more . What then avails all my in- dustry ? What avails it ...
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to his artillery , what they had taken to be addressed to heaven . READY WIT . A MAN seeing , in a street in Paris , an old woman who drove some asses , said " Adieu , mother of asses . ' “ Adieu , adieu , my son , " answered she . TO ...
to his artillery , what they had taken to be addressed to heaven . READY WIT . A MAN seeing , in a street in Paris , an old woman who drove some asses , said " Adieu , mother of asses . ' “ Adieu , adieu , my son , " answered she . TO ...
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... Heaven , " said with one voice all these affectionate children , " preserve to us our beloved mother , and grant us the grace to imitate her virtues , and to contribute to her happiness . " A pious silence succeeded this short and ...
... Heaven , " said with one voice all these affectionate children , " preserve to us our beloved mother , and grant us the grace to imitate her virtues , and to contribute to her happiness . " A pious silence succeeded this short and ...
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... Heaven . " Let us then strive to encourage the growth of this feeling in our hearts ; let us endeavour to raise our- selves above the dust of which we are formed ; let us cherish the ethereal spark which the wisdom of our Creator has ...
... Heaven . " Let us then strive to encourage the growth of this feeling in our hearts ; let us endeavour to raise our- selves above the dust of which we are formed ; let us cherish the ethereal spark which the wisdom of our Creator has ...
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... heaven from all those sorrows which op- pressed them here . Let us , as far as the human nature can imitate the divine , follow his example ; and , oh ! how glorious will be the result ? How far beyond all the pleasures which the ...
... heaven from all those sorrows which op- pressed them here . Let us , as far as the human nature can imitate the divine , follow his example ; and , oh ! how glorious will be the result ? How far beyond all the pleasures which the ...
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Էջ 337 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among -the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Էջ 271 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Էջ 109 - The friendly many, and the favourite few ; Nor one that day did he to mind recall, But she has treasured, and she loves them all ; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people — death has made them dear. He named his friend, but then his hand she prest, And fondly whispered, " Thou must go to rest :"
Էջ 70 - ... towards it with a view of proceeding close to its base, I observed a few little pieces fall from the top, and while my eye was fixed upon- the place, an immense column, probably fifty feet square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity fell with an awful crash into the sea. The water into which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapour or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading.
Էջ 220 - It derives its name from the instrument made use of by surgeons to stop the circulation of the blood in a limb about to be amputated. It is performed by clasping the hand of your friend, as far as you can, in your own, and then contracting the muscles of your thumb, fingers, and palm, till you have induced any degree of compression you may propose in the hand of your friend.
Էջ 71 - ... through sub-glacial channels to the front of the iceberg, where, in transparent streams, or in small cascades, they fell into the sea. In some places, chasms of several yards in width were seen, in others they were only a few inches or feet across. One of the sailors who attempted to walk across the iceberg, imprudently stept into a narrow chasm filled up with snow to the general level.
Էջ 109 - Apart she sigh'd ; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so—
Էջ 326 - Jones at piquet, for sixpence a game; they played a good while, and the Duke left off when winner of one game. Some time after, he desired the Dean to pay him his sixpence; the Dean said he had no silver ; the Duke asked him for it over and over, and at last desired that he would change a guinea to pay it him, because he should want it to pay the chair that carried him home. The Dean...
Էջ 109 - twas her proper care. Here will she come, and on the grave will sit, Folding her arms, in long abstracted fit; But, if observer pass, will take her round, And careless seem, for she would not be found ; Then go again, and thus her hour employ, While visions please her, and while woes destroy.
Էջ 243 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the -wretch to weep...