The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 6E. Littell, 1823 |
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... habits differ materially from those of his fashionable neighbours . The half- opened parlour - shutter , and the light within , announces that some one dwells there whose time is too precious to permit him to regulate his rising with ...
... habits differ materially from those of his fashionable neighbours . The half- opened parlour - shutter , and the light within , announces that some one dwells there whose time is too precious to permit him to regulate his rising with ...
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... habits - his sanguine temperament , which renders him not merely the advocate but the partisan of his client— his acuteness - his fluency of thought and language - his unconquerable good humour - and , above all , his versatility . By ...
... habits - his sanguine temperament , which renders him not merely the advocate but the partisan of his client— his acuteness - his fluency of thought and language - his unconquerable good humour - and , above all , his versatility . By ...
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... habit of storing them up ready made against any poetry that subsequent chance may throw into their way . No wonder , then , that the fit often should resemble that of a Monmouth - street suit . In this manner the musical annals of ...
... habit of storing them up ready made against any poetry that subsequent chance may throw into their way . No wonder , then , that the fit often should resemble that of a Monmouth - street suit . In this manner the musical annals of ...
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... habits and opinions are in unison with their own , and he is made an object of admiration rather than contempt . Our guardians of the night and police magistrates can bear testimony to this truth . Next to the author , the censor inter ...
... habits and opinions are in unison with their own , and he is made an object of admiration rather than contempt . Our guardians of the night and police magistrates can bear testimony to this truth . Next to the author , the censor inter ...
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... habits of regularity , and the necessity of a temporary absence from scenes and persons fami- liar to me , and even not always without the power of annoying me . As I generally travel by coach , I look forward with pain to the weary ...
... habits of regularity , and the necessity of a temporary absence from scenes and persons fami- liar to me , and even not always without the power of annoying me . As I generally travel by coach , I look forward with pain to the weary ...
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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...