The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1848 - English literature |
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... head - ache . As his " Records " are not very widely known , I will glean from them two or three anecdotes that not be uninteresting to the general reader . may His The original of Kenney's Jeremy Diddler in the admirable farce of ...
... head - ache . As his " Records " are not very widely known , I will glean from them two or three anecdotes that not be uninteresting to the general reader . may His The original of Kenney's Jeremy Diddler in the admirable farce of ...
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strous heads " but very mountains of liquid brine , on whose white crests , capped as with undriven snow , the frail bark is madly borne along ; whilst over head , on motionless and distended wing , the huge Albatross , like the Spirit ...
strous heads " but very mountains of liquid brine , on whose white crests , capped as with undriven snow , the frail bark is madly borne along ; whilst over head , on motionless and distended wing , the huge Albatross , like the Spirit ...
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... head . As the distance between the above group and the ship thus gradually augments , two or three huge Albatross - atten- tive observers of occurring facts - presently drop heavily amongst the minor fry , for the purpose , no doubt ...
... head . As the distance between the above group and the ship thus gradually augments , two or three huge Albatross - atten- tive observers of occurring facts - presently drop heavily amongst the minor fry , for the purpose , no doubt ...
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... head of Mr. Albatross , and thus , blindfolded , and rendered harmless , he is carried off in triumph , destined probably at some future period to be stuffed , " set up , " and become the stationary inhabitant of a snug glass - case in ...
... head of Mr. Albatross , and thus , blindfolded , and rendered harmless , he is carried off in triumph , destined probably at some future period to be stuffed , " set up , " and become the stationary inhabitant of a snug glass - case in ...
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... heads , an immense canopy , or rather a sky , composed of birds of every species , and of all colours ; cormorants ... head to prevent it from being torn to pieces- ( Quare , by the music or the birds ? ) - and to give a little relief ...
... heads , an immense canopy , or rather a sky , composed of birds of every species , and of all colours ; cormorants ... head to prevent it from being torn to pieces- ( Quare , by the music or the birds ? ) - and to give a little relief ...
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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.