The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Томи 50 – 51Henry Colburn, 1837 |
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... perhaps rather hazardously seated , in the midst of so many partially , and half - deranged people , yet no accident has ever occurred . The latter are not allowed steel knives ; they use silver ; and each guest is carefully attended by ...
... perhaps rather hazardously seated , in the midst of so many partially , and half - deranged people , yet no accident has ever occurred . The latter are not allowed steel knives ; they use silver ; and each guest is carefully attended by ...
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... perhaps for many years , for a second visitation or relapse is more difficult to heal than the first . He was now the orator of the madman's hall ; his religious fanaticism seemed to be forgotten ; it had never been so strong as his ...
... perhaps for many years , for a second visitation or relapse is more difficult to heal than the first . He was now the orator of the madman's hall ; his religious fanaticism seemed to be forgotten ; it had never been so strong as his ...
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... perhaps the most desperate of any - far more so than that of the pale Spaniard , the relapsed Philippist , or the sad English- man , because in his shattered mind there is remorse for the past and hopelessness for the future - fearful ...
... perhaps the most desperate of any - far more so than that of the pale Spaniard , the relapsed Philippist , or the sad English- man , because in his shattered mind there is remorse for the past and hopelessness for the future - fearful ...
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... perhaps beheld in our English asylums , private or public , where the employment of the mind is too much disregarded ; books are deemed useless things in a madman's hands , and are seldom supplied . Why should this be ? the resources of ...
... perhaps beheld in our English asylums , private or public , where the employment of the mind is too much disregarded ; books are deemed useless things in a madman's hands , and are seldom supplied . Why should this be ? the resources of ...
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... perhaps he was too proud - more probably he had a consciousness of his state , —his eye seemed to say so , -and there is nothing so appealing , so painful as the look of a man who knows that his intellect is departing . He was seated on ...
... perhaps he was too proud - more probably he had a consciousness of his state , —his eye seemed to say so , -and there is nothing so appealing , so painful as the look of a man who knows that his intellect is departing . He was seated on ...
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Сторінка 432 - gainst every odds— and I've gained the victory. Our captain sent for all of us; my merry men, said he, I havn't the gift of the gab, my lads, but yet I thankful be; You've done your duty handsomely, each man stood to his gun, If you hadn't, you villains, as sure as day, I'd have flogged each mother's son. Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I'm at sea, I'll fight 'gainst every odds — and I'll gain the victory.
Сторінка 196 - Both in his native and domesticated state, during the solemn stillness of night, as soon as the moon rises in silent majesty, he begins his delightful solo ; and serenades us the livelong night with a full display of his vocal powers, making the whole neighbourhood ring with his inimitable medley...
Сторінка 370 - Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Сторінка 195 - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
Сторінка 262 - He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing down the obstinate doubt that threatened to become an impediment to his ever speaking again with any confidence or comfort. Naturally fond of music, which he could have enjoyed at all hours but for the single drawback of not being able to hear a note, he resorted for solace to his music-book, and began to read. The effort was unsuccessful — -a solitary crotchet, harsh and horrid, having taken possession of his mind. He drew his chair to the...
Сторінка 196 - The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat,...
Сторінка 226 - Of passion link the universal kind Of man so close, what wonder if to search This common nature through the various change Of sex, and age, and fortune, and the frame Of each peculiar, draw the busy mind With unresisted charms?
Сторінка 196 - Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recall his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain.
Сторінка 229 - What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation ? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from...
Сторінка 139 - Upon this development of the motives, the views, and the consistency of the above-mentioned band of patriots, Johnson once remarked to me, that it had given more strength to government than all that had been written in its defence, meaning thereby, that it had destroyed all confidence in men of that character.