The Canterbury Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 2, Issue 10Office of the Kentish Observer, 1834 |
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... dear father , where they lie in that humble grave , beside which I stood , and wept tears as sorrowful as ever fell from a son's eyes , when I heard the crumbling dust descend upon thy coffin , telling my young heart that earth had ...
... dear father , where they lie in that humble grave , beside which I stood , and wept tears as sorrowful as ever fell from a son's eyes , when I heard the crumbling dust descend upon thy coffin , telling my young heart that earth had ...
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... dear and valued friend , ( which I know I am ) that when it does come to pass , I may have timely notice ; for though I esteem myself no jot worse than the best of my betters , I am in no fit condition to be overhauled unawares . I ...
... dear and valued friend , ( which I know I am ) that when it does come to pass , I may have timely notice ; for though I esteem myself no jot worse than the best of my betters , I am in no fit condition to be overhauled unawares . I ...
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... dear friend , you , I am sure , would never counsel me to an act of cruelty : tell me , therefore , - was I not sufficiently injured by the tongue and hand of this poltroon , with- out irritating his sword ? For though I am vexed at ...
... dear friend , you , I am sure , would never counsel me to an act of cruelty : tell me , therefore , - was I not sufficiently injured by the tongue and hand of this poltroon , with- out irritating his sword ? For though I am vexed at ...
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... dear hearts , all a thousand times o'er ! Thus we carry our crow - song to door after door ; Alternately chaunting , we ramble along , And we treat all who give , or give not , with a song . " And the song ever concludes " My good ...
... dear hearts , all a thousand times o'er ! Thus we carry our crow - song to door after door ; Alternately chaunting , we ramble along , And we treat all who give , or give not , with a song . " And the song ever concludes " My good ...
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... dear . - I take in the Penny Magazine , between three of us ; and I wish we could make a fourth , for the lite- rature of the country ought to be supported ; but I would not pay a shilling for a magazine , if it was written by the Pope ...
... dear . - I take in the Penny Magazine , between three of us ; and I wish we could make a fourth , for the lite- rature of the country ought to be supported ; but I would not pay a shilling for a magazine , if it was written by the Pope ...
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Page 139 - The Man shall answer, I will. Then shall the Priest say unto the Woman, N. WILT thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou...
Page 74 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 125 - Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart; And fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of hope; And hope that scarce would know itself from fear; Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain...
Page 1 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 10 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud though yet gentle noise came from the heavens (for it was like nothing on earth), which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Page 228 - Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers ; neither take thou vengeance of our sins : spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.
Page 24 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathesomeness and horror, of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange.
Page 38 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him, . .', But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 24 - ... burial they might send a painter to his vault, and if they saw cause for it draw the image of his death unto the life: they did so, and found his face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone full of serpents; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Page 288 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.