Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14Munroe and Francis, 1824 |
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... produced , there is among other tales , one entitled Nin- ette , ou la fille de bonne Volonté , par E. Jouy . " In the time of the Regents there lived , or rather flourished , at Yvetot , a sweet little girl named Ninette . If the be ...
... produced , there is among other tales , one entitled Nin- ette , ou la fille de bonne Volonté , par E. Jouy . " In the time of the Regents there lived , or rather flourished , at Yvetot , a sweet little girl named Ninette . If the be ...
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... produced on her a similar effect : and as curiosity early triumphs over feebleness , the de- sire of seeing each other was soon equally felt by both the young scholars . " OF THE INSTINCTS OF NATURE IN DISEASES . NATURE has 58 Story of ...
... produced on her a similar effect : and as curiosity early triumphs over feebleness , the de- sire of seeing each other was soon equally felt by both the young scholars . " OF THE INSTINCTS OF NATURE IN DISEASES . NATURE has 58 Story of ...
Page 64
... produces from its nature such an effect upon them that they must of necessity contract and thus exclude the redun- dant rays , without our having occasion to form previously any resolution on the subject , nay , even without our be- ing ...
... produces from its nature such an effect upon them that they must of necessity contract and thus exclude the redun- dant rays , without our having occasion to form previously any resolution on the subject , nay , even without our be- ing ...
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... produce such movements as direct the senses and imagination to other things which are antidotes to it . In like manner the overloading of the stomach takes away the appetite from all animals , and if they then force them- selves to take ...
... produce such movements as direct the senses and imagination to other things which are antidotes to it . In like manner the overloading of the stomach takes away the appetite from all animals , and if they then force them- selves to take ...
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... produced by the sud- den infusion of a great mass of half understood words and facts ; it is to this alone that we ... produce most admirable effects , both directly upon the minds of the jurymen themselves , and indirectly upon the ...
... produced by the sud- den infusion of a great mass of half understood words and facts ; it is to this alone that we ... produce most admirable effects , both directly upon the minds of the jurymen themselves , and indirectly upon the ...
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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.