The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 6E. Littell, 1823 |
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... Give him the most dry and abstract position of law to support - the most remote that imagi- nation can conceive from the violation of the Articles of Limerick , or the Rape of the Irish Parliament , and ten to one but he will contrive ...
... Give him the most dry and abstract position of law to support - the most remote that imagi- nation can conceive from the violation of the Articles of Limerick , or the Rape of the Irish Parliament , and ten to one but he will contrive ...
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... give my days and nights to the illustration of some learned author . The classic " world was all before me where to choose ; " but the choice was not easy . An esteemed author was not upon any terms to be had , who was not already so ...
... give my days and nights to the illustration of some learned author . The classic " world was all before me where to choose ; " but the choice was not easy . An esteemed author was not upon any terms to be had , who was not already so ...
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... repeated the simile , totidem verbis , to mark it the more certainly as his own . In order more completely to illustrate this portion of the text , I shall give remarks on second childhood , or old 14 Prospectus of a New Work .
... repeated the simile , totidem verbis , to mark it the more certainly as his own . In order more completely to illustrate this portion of the text , I shall give remarks on second childhood , or old 14 Prospectus of a New Work .
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... Give me then your pledge , never to play again . " - " Cheerfully , " continued I , for I had already formed that resolution . She kissed me with many affectionate thanks , adding that I had made her completely happy . I believe it ...
... Give me then your pledge , never to play again . " - " Cheerfully , " continued I , for I had already formed that resolution . She kissed me with many affectionate thanks , adding that I had made her completely happy . I believe it ...
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... give perfect credit to the averment , that the idea of the crime came suddenly into her head without the least solici- tation , and that she felt driven forward to its accomplishment by some invisible power . Similar declarations from ...
... give perfect credit to the averment , that the idea of the crime came suddenly into her head without the least solici- tation , and that she felt driven forward to its accomplishment by some invisible power . Similar declarations from ...
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Page 104 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 146 - Yet more ! the billows and the depths have more ! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast ! They hear not now the booming waters roar, The battle-thunders will not break their rest. Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave...
Page 104 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 38 - Ring out, ye crystal Spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 527 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 258 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Page 516 - Of all men, saving Sylla, the man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General Boon...
Page 218 - Sheriff, at his return, told him, that since he was so ill prepared he should yet have two hours' respite ; so led him from the scaffold, without giving him any more comfort, and locked him into the great hall to walk with Prince Arthur. The Lord Grey, whose turn was next, was led to the scaffold by a troop of the young courtiers, and was supported on both sides by two of his best friends...
Page 507 - Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting.
Page 516 - Crime came not near him— she is not the child Of solitude; Health shrank not from him— for Her home is in the rarely trodden wild, Where if men seek her not, and death be more Their choice than life, forgive them, as beguiled By habit to what their own hearts abhor— In cities caged. The present case in point I Cite is, that Boon lived hunting up to ninety...