La Belle Assemblée, Volume 18J. Bell, 1818 |
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... ment had sent his discharge , and that he was maintained by the government . He instantly began to follow another course , called for clothes , slept at night , gave up his singing , and finally shewed himself a young man of sense and ...
... ment had sent his discharge , and that he was maintained by the government . He instantly began to follow another course , called for clothes , slept at night , gave up his singing , and finally shewed himself a young man of sense and ...
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... ment . She wheedled her husband , at the end of four years , to take a trip to Eng land . He was a Creole , brought up on the spot of his nativity ; and a total stranger in the emporium of pleasure and profusion , he depended entirely ...
... ment . She wheedled her husband , at the end of four years , to take a trip to Eng land . He was a Creole , brought up on the spot of his nativity ; and a total stranger in the emporium of pleasure and profusion , he depended entirely ...
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... ment ; we cannot forbear saying a very outré one . Many matronly ladies , however , in the country , wear at evening parties small equestrian hats of Chinese gauze or satin , with full plumes of feathers : the Caledonian cap , for sea ...
... ment ; we cannot forbear saying a very outré one . Many matronly ladies , however , in the country , wear at evening parties small equestrian hats of Chinese gauze or satin , with full plumes of feathers : the Caledonian cap , for sea ...
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... ment . At length he falls into the hands of justice in two capacities - as the Major , for murder in a duel , and as Timothy Flat , for running away with his master's livery . He is conducted to prison , where he is visited by the ...
... ment . At length he falls into the hands of justice in two capacities - as the Major , for murder in a duel , and as Timothy Flat , for running away with his master's livery . He is conducted to prison , where he is visited by the ...
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... ment for the next season at the Theatre Français , to which she will return at the THEATRE DE L'OPERA COMIQUE.- Sketch of The Little Red Riding Hood , an operatic fairy tale , in three acts , Rose d'Amour , whose birth is unknown , has ...
... ment for the next season at the Theatre Français , to which she will return at the THEATRE DE L'OPERA COMIQUE.- Sketch of The Little Red Riding Hood , an operatic fairy tale , in three acts , Rose d'Amour , whose birth is unknown , has ...
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Page 58 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
Page 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Page 233 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Page 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
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Page 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Page 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Page 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...