New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 59Henry Colburn, 1840 |
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Page 114 - IN joyous youth, what soul hath never known Thought, feeling, taste, harmonious to its own ? Who hath not paused while Beauty's pensive eye Ask'd from his heart the homage of a sigh ? Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name...
Page 567 - Territory," performed by order of the domestic committee of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the spring of l844, by their secretary and general agent.
Page 245 - Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus...
Page 203 - A good Dinner is one of the greatest enjoyments of human life; — and as the practice of Cookery is attended with so many discouraging difficulties,* so many disgusting and disagreeable circumstances, and even dangers, we ought to have some regard for those who encounter them, to procure us pleasure, and to reward their attention by rendering their situation every way...
Page 416 - I am now passing into another world, and I must leave you to your fortunes, and the queen's grace and goodness; but beware of the gipsy, (meaning Leicester,) for he will be too hard for you all, you know not the beast so well as I do.
Page 117 - Give me sacke, old sacke, boys, To make the muses merry. The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup of good old sherry.
Page 530 - Better it were if, in his best of suits, The artisan, who goes to work on Monday, Should spend a leisure hour among the brutes, Than make a beast of his own self on Sunday — But what is your opinion, Mrs.
Page 409 - Orme, Brown, and Green, say that the work is out of print." She would rather have perished than omitted a partner, and she would have added " and Co." had she found it on the doorpost. The gentleman who denied that the Duke of Wellington could ever have reaped any of his laurels in India, seeing that the laurel does not grow there, was less literal than Soph. It was absolutely necessary to speak by the card when you spoke to her ; but even then you were not safe. Her capacity for not comprehending,...
Page 410 - ... minutes will suffice for the boiling of an egg. At last you make her clearly comprehend, and feel that you may safely calculate on a breakfast. No, the eggs come up as before, hard as undertakers
Page 414 - I'm sure I shall never forget Easter Sunday ; for if you believe me, that day five weeks Kate was Mrs. Macintosh !" Call her off you might, but she would return three-quarters of an hour after to the scene, and take up another thread of the story — " Ah ! yes — and well do I remember father saying one day, ' Here, hem me these two white neck-handkerchiefs...