The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1848 - English literature |
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... OF AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE . ILLUSTRATED BY HABLOT K. BROWNE . THE ROMANCE WILL BE CONTINUED IN SUCCEEDING NUMBERS UNTIL ITS COM- PLETION IN THE MAGAZINE . CHAPMAN AND HALL , 186 , STRAND . NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE . GAINS LOST AND LOSSES GAINED .
... OF AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE . ILLUSTRATED BY HABLOT K. BROWNE . THE ROMANCE WILL BE CONTINUED IN SUCCEEDING NUMBERS UNTIL ITS COM- PLETION IN THE MAGAZINE . CHAPMAN AND HALL , 186 , STRAND . NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE . GAINS LOST AND LOSSES GAINED .
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... continued , as he finished the bow of his cravat , for in spite of his objections to modern costume Lord Norham piqued himself on the skill of his tie , an accomplishment really acquired at Oxford , - " make a point of asking the ...
... continued , as he finished the bow of his cravat , for in spite of his objections to modern costume Lord Norham piqued himself on the skill of his tie , an accomplishment really acquired at Oxford , - " make a point of asking the ...
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... continued , " I have got some news about dat camicia . I have discover to whom it belong— a very nice lady ! very beautiful , very rich ! ” " Is that you , Antonio ? What are you talking about ? I wish you would hold your tongue ...
... continued , " I have got some news about dat camicia . I have discover to whom it belong— a very nice lady ! very beautiful , very rich ! ” " Is that you , Antonio ? What are you talking about ? I wish you would hold your tongue ...
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... continued , with a melancholy accent , " I must once more be a wanderer . " " You will not leave that is - quit England , without allowing my aunt to make the acquaintance of her son's friend , without " -she hesi- tated— “ without ...
... continued , with a melancholy accent , " I must once more be a wanderer . " " You will not leave that is - quit England , without allowing my aunt to make the acquaintance of her son's friend , without " -she hesi- tated— “ without ...
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... continued for weeks together the process of shipping off the odoriferous surface of the island , no doubt much to the astonishment and dismay of its winged inhabitants , the penguins and gannets , who would willingly have dispensed with ...
... continued for weeks together the process of shipping off the odoriferous surface of the island , no doubt much to the astonishment and dismay of its winged inhabitants , the penguins and gannets , who would willingly have dispensed with ...
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Popular passages
Page 108 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 108 - The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 506 - The chief and almost the only business of the Syphogrants is to take care that no man may live idle, but that every one may follow his trade diligently; yet they do not wear themselves out with perpetual toil from morning to night, as if they were beasts of burden, which as it is indeed a heavy slavery, so it is everywhere the common course of life amongst all mechanics except the Utopians...
Page 363 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Page 191 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 338 - I'm not a single man. Upon your cheek I may not speak, Nor on your lip be warm, I must be wise about your eyes, And formal with your form; Of all that sort of thing, in short, On TH Bayly's plan, I must not twine a single line — I'm not a single man.
Page 108 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 224 - I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of tide, with any wind, and in any weather...
Page 422 - ... why should we despair that the reason which has enabled us to subdue all nature to our purposes should (if permitted and assisted by the providence of God) achieve a far more difficult conquest, and ultimately find some means of enabling the collective wisdom of mankind to bear down those obstacles which individual short-sightedness, selfishness, and passion, oppose to all improvements, and by which the highest hopes are continually blighted, and the fairest prospects marred ? From a "Discourse...
Page 219 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.