The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... dark eyes alone , were not altered ; they were as full as ever of pride and fire : but in everything else she is changed . The glossy hair , black as the raven's wing , was coiled in thick masses round the well - formed head ; the tall ...
... dark eyes alone , were not altered ; they were as full as ever of pride and fire : but in everything else she is changed . The glossy hair , black as the raven's wing , was coiled in thick masses round the well - formed head ; the tall ...
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... dark bodies glimmered with faint electric light , as they darted to and fro in the darker parts of the marsh , with their spark - like eyes bent on her , and all seemed by their gestures to be jeering and mocking at poor Liuchen . As ...
... dark bodies glimmered with faint electric light , as they darted to and fro in the darker parts of the marsh , with their spark - like eyes bent on her , and all seemed by their gestures to be jeering and mocking at poor Liuchen . As ...
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... dark green leaves . She did not wonder now at the brightness of the river , for those roses had been reflected in it , and their light sparkled on its waves till the river was lost in the sea . Again and again she tried to take one ...
... dark green leaves . She did not wonder now at the brightness of the river , for those roses had been reflected in it , and their light sparkled on its waves till the river was lost in the sea . Again and again she tried to take one ...
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... dark com- made for a holiday use , represent the large part plexions affecting hues only becoming to blonds , of all writings which adds to the pleasures of its or vice versa . We think the chapters on colour hour by moulding surface ...
... dark com- made for a holiday use , represent the large part plexions affecting hues only becoming to blonds , of all writings which adds to the pleasures of its or vice versa . We think the chapters on colour hour by moulding surface ...
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... dark and dead as doom . Good - night fair moon ! -good night again , pale captive to the cloud ; I've That seen a dearer light than thine extinguished by the shroud . cloud is edged with silver now ; its gloom is webbed with gold ; The ...
... dark and dead as doom . Good - night fair moon ! -good night again , pale captive to the cloud ; I've That seen a dearer light than thine extinguished by the shroud . cloud is edged with silver now ; its gloom is webbed with gold ; The ...
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Page 128 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 214 - Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.
Page 322 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 323 - Ant. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable...
Page 34 - Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 325 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 111 - The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Page 310 - ... enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake. And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
Page 209 - Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 209 - Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.