Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14Munroe and Francis, 1824 |
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... sion upon Ru- dolph's mind from this conversation- the last he was ever to hold with his father - was rendered still deeper by the solemn event which followed . About the middle of that same night he was awakened suddenly by a sum- mons ...
... sion upon Ru- dolph's mind from this conversation- the last he was ever to hold with his father - was rendered still deeper by the solemn event which followed . About the middle of that same night he was awakened suddenly by a sum- mons ...
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... sion of his sudden agitation , laid hold of his are - and said , with a powerful voice , that he who trusted in God would assuredly see all his righteous hopes accomplished - in this world , if it were God's pleasure ; but , if not , in ...
... sion of his sudden agitation , laid hold of his are - and said , with a powerful voice , that he who trusted in God would assuredly see all his righteous hopes accomplished - in this world , if it were God's pleasure ; but , if not , in ...
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... sion , they failed at so critical a moment , as to lose him not only all his own mon- ey , but a good deal beside that he had borrowed . Foaming with rage , he came home . He asked furiously after his wife : she was from home . He ...
... sion , they failed at so critical a moment , as to lose him not only all his own mon- ey , but a good deal beside that he had borrowed . Foaming with rage , he came home . He asked furiously after his wife : she was from home . He ...
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... sion , telling him they would take him back to Brest . The pilot instantly took a brace of pistols from his pocket , and pointing one at each of them , ex- claimed I am an Englishman ; and if you do not put me on board my ship , without ...
... sion , telling him they would take him back to Brest . The pilot instantly took a brace of pistols from his pocket , and pointing one at each of them , ex- claimed I am an Englishman ; and if you do not put me on board my ship , without ...
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... sion to it , inasmuch as this sacred book contains in almost every page accounts which cannot fail deeply to wound their feelings , by openly hurting preju- dices which are held most sacred . " To you who have some acquaint- ance with ...
... sion to it , inasmuch as this sacred book contains in almost every page accounts which cannot fail deeply to wound their feelings , by openly hurting preju- dices which are held most sacred . " To you who have some acquaint- ance with ...
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Page 100 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 102 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Page 103 - ... curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Page 102 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Page 209 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 166 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Page 103 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Page 166 - He may require to be repressed sometimes — aliquando sufflaminandus erat — but there is no raising her. You send her soup at dinner, and she begs to be helped — after the gentlemen. Mr. requests the honour of taking wine with her; she hesitates between Port and Madeira, and chooses the former — because he does. She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.
Page 43 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides...
Page 62 - If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.