Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, Volumes 4-5Anna Maria Hall |
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... death investigated , and he was right . The fat old face turned almost as white as the bandages in which his forehead was wrapped , and his hand clenched on a tumbler near him , which I expected to see dashed at the head of my com ...
... death investigated , and he was right . The fat old face turned almost as white as the bandages in which his forehead was wrapped , and his hand clenched on a tumbler near him , which I expected to see dashed at the head of my com ...
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... death was brought about by fright , when ex- posed to the violence of an infuriated popu- lace ; and the hapless poet fell in the arms of untoward circumstances attending war and slaughter ! When the rioters approached Col- wick Hall ...
... death was brought about by fright , when ex- posed to the violence of an infuriated popu- lace ; and the hapless poet fell in the arms of untoward circumstances attending war and slaughter ! When the rioters approached Col- wick Hall ...
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... death itself came over Maître Jean . But he was a hero after his own fashion , and repair- ing to his beloved , yet ill - boding cathedral , with a firm and cheerful countenance , such as he had all along maintained , he dismissed the ...
... death itself came over Maître Jean . But he was a hero after his own fashion , and repair- ing to his beloved , yet ill - boding cathedral , with a firm and cheerful countenance , such as he had all along maintained , he dismissed the ...
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... death and judgment gathering round his spirit like maddened wolves , and in his de- spair he cried : " Oh , would that by any means - at any price , I could escape this dreadful doom ! " The words were inarticulate through his anguish ...
... death and judgment gathering round his spirit like maddened wolves , and in his de- spair he cried : " Oh , would that by any means - at any price , I could escape this dreadful doom ! " The words were inarticulate through his anguish ...
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... death which closed it baffling the ex- pectation of the demon , who had shrewdly calculated that , with or without the lost bond , the soul of the proud , ambitious architect was sure to be his own . And there , beneath the high altar ...
... death which closed it baffling the ex- pectation of the demon , who had shrewdly calculated that , with or without the lost bond , the soul of the proud , ambitious architect was sure to be his own . And there , beneath the high altar ...
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Page 235 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 283 - I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person." "Why, who," cries Jones, "dost thou take to be such a coward here besides thyself?
Page 202 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
Page 237 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 204 - Officers of justice have owned to me, that they have passed by such with warrants in their pockets against them without daring to apprehend them ; and, indeed, they could not be blamed for not exposing themselves to sure destruction ; for it is a melancholy truth, that, at this very day, a rogue no sooner gives the alarm, within certain purlieus, than twenty or thirty armed villains are found ready to come to his assistance.
Page 234 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 290 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country...
Page 208 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 112 - By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate• at once my lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day We read no more.
Page 202 - In short, the magistrate had too great an honour for truth, to suspect that she ever appeared in sordid apparel ; nor did he ever sully his sublime notions of that virtue, by uniting them with the mean ideas of poverty and distress.