The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Томи 50 – 51Henry Colburn, 1837 |
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... voice , sweet delivery , and as slow as a slug , -breakfast at nine , - no nonsense about nerves , -never let them touch tea , -pure milk - and- water , the cow and the pump , -out for an hour , -relaxation in the ' shrubbery , -at ten ...
... voice , sweet delivery , and as slow as a slug , -breakfast at nine , - no nonsense about nerves , -never let them touch tea , -pure milk - and- water , the cow and the pump , -out for an hour , -relaxation in the ' shrubbery , -at ten ...
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... voice which satisfied me that he would have been more interested in the fact of his own favourite cat having been made up for the night in her well- lined basket . " Oh yes , " said I , " two hours since , I should think - she is not by ...
... voice which satisfied me that he would have been more interested in the fact of his own favourite cat having been made up for the night in her well- lined basket . " Oh yes , " said I , " two hours since , I should think - she is not by ...
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... voice . The party who thus addressed Amine was a little meagre personage , dressed in the garb of the Dutch seamen of the time , with a cap made of badger - skin hanging over his brow . His features were sharp and diminutive , his face ...
... voice . The party who thus addressed Amine was a little meagre personage , dressed in the garb of the Dutch seamen of the time , with a cap made of badger - skin hanging over his brow . His features were sharp and diminutive , his face ...
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... voice of the little man was most peculiar - it was a sort of sub- dued scream , the notes of which sounded in your ear long after he had ceased to speak . " I am Schriften , one of the pilots of the Ter Schilling , " continued the man ...
... voice of the little man was most peculiar - it was a sort of sub- dued scream , the notes of which sounded in your ear long after he had ceased to speak . " I am Schriften , one of the pilots of the Ter Schilling , " continued the man ...
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... voice , your words ( each of which will be engraven in my heart's memory ) , to ponder on and feed my love with in your absence and in my solitude . - No ! No ! Philip ; I thank God that there is yet a week . " " And so do I then ...
... voice , your words ( each of which will be engraven in my heart's memory ) , to ponder on and feed my love with in your absence and in my solitude . - No ! No ! Philip ; I thank God that there is yet a week . " " And so do I then ...
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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.
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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.