The Metropolitan, Volume 18James Cochrane, 1837 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 11
... to a young girl who had lived secluded ; and as his full - toned voice , in measured and low pitch , fell upon Wilhelmina's ear , she never perhaps was so much interested . She seldom ventured Snarleyyow ; or , the Dog Fiend . 11.
... to a young girl who had lived secluded ; and as his full - toned voice , in measured and low pitch , fell upon Wilhelmina's ear , she never perhaps was so much interested . She seldom ventured Snarleyyow ; or , the Dog Fiend . 11.
Page 25
... voice , her caressing manner , her habit of pointing out to every one their own good qualities , with an air of as much inuocence and simplicity as if she were pointing them out to a third person , all told wonderfully well in mixed ...
... voice , her caressing manner , her habit of pointing out to every one their own good qualities , with an air of as much inuocence and simplicity as if she were pointing them out to a third person , all told wonderfully well in mixed ...
Page 37
... voice of nature is , in fact , never silent - for when we are doing what she requires in obedience to her laws , and when therefore it is not necessary to warn us , even then her encouraging voice is heard in the pleasure which we feel ...
... voice of nature is , in fact , never silent - for when we are doing what she requires in obedience to her laws , and when therefore it is not necessary to warn us , even then her encouraging voice is heard in the pleasure which we feel ...
Page 56
... voice , I said , " Dare we not all die together ? " 66 There was no answer , at first , in words to the impious appeal . But the death that I had thus madly invoked , seemed already to be levy- ing his first tribute on my mother , my ...
... voice , I said , " Dare we not all die together ? " 66 There was no answer , at first , in words to the impious appeal . But the death that I had thus madly invoked , seemed already to be levy- ing his first tribute on my mother , my ...
Page 57
... voice but of the soul . But let me understand , Señor Trottoni , if we should fall in with a West Indian to - morrow , you wish to embark your son with half your property in her , in order to proceed to the West Indies . " " Exactly so ...
... voice but of the soul . But let me understand , Señor Trottoni , if we should fall in with a West Indian to - morrow , you wish to embark your son with half your property in her , in order to proceed to the West Indies . " " Exactly so ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration amusement appearance Aspenall beautiful Bench better Bill blood cabin called Captain Caroline cause character church Clifford cloudy corporal court Court of Chancery court of equity Court of Exchequer daughter dear Dornton England English exclaimed eyes father feeling gentleman give hand happy heard heart Honoria honour hour husband improvements Jemmy Jugurtha King's Bench labour lady Lancashire late Liverpool living looked Lord Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon lordship manner Maremma marriage married matter means ment mind Moggy months morning mother Mynheer nature never observed party person poor Prague present racter Ramsay reader received replied respect seemed sister Smallbones Snarleyyow soon speak spirit Street theatre thing thought tion Torrington Square Vanslyperken voice whole wife wish woman words young
Popular passages
Page 81 - Titles, 30s. cloth. JAMES. -A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE, and of various Events connected therewith, which occurred during the Reign of Edward III. King of England. By GPR JAMES, Esq. 2d Edition. 2 vols. fcp.
Page 66 - Hence we see a great, an almost enormous intellectual activity, and a proportionate aversion to real action, consequent upon it, with all its symptoms and accompanying qualities. This character, Shakespeare places in circumstances under which it is obliged to act on the spur of the moment : Hamlet is brave and careless of death ; but he vacillates from sensibility, and procrastinates from thought, and loses the power of action in the energy of resolve.
Page 66 - Hence it is that the sense of sublimity arises, not from the sight of an outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it; not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex.
Page 103 - I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters, To garter up his hose, And a little handkerchief, To wipe his pretty nose.
Page 34 - ... the thistle-down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown !) Thou pretty opening rose ! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose !) Balmy and breathing music like the South, (He really brings my heart into my mouth !) Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star, — (I wish that window had an iron bar !) Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the, dove, -— (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write unless he's...
Page 366 - Tweed ; and, that no papist should be capable of purchasing any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, either in his own name or in the name of any other person in trust for him.
Page 105 - One bullet wounded him severely in the hip, but not so badly as to prevent his progress. " The Indians having to make a considerable circuit before they could cross the stream, Brady advanced a good distance ahead. His limb was growing stiff from the wound, and, as the Indians gained on him, he made for the pond which...
Page 106 - Horror-struck at the sudden outrage, the Indians simultaneously rushed to rescue the infant from the fire. In the midst of this confusion, Brady darted from the circle, overturning all that came in his way, and rushed into the adjacent thickets, with the Indians yelling at his heels.
Page 31 - TWAS when the world was in its prime, When the fresh stars had just begun Their race of glory, and young Time Told his first birth-days by the sun ; When, in the light of Nature's dawn Rejoicing, men and angels met On the high hill and sunny lawn, — Ere Sorrow came, or Sin had drawn 'Twixt man and Heaven her curtain yet ! When earth lay nearer to the skies Than in...
Page 272 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.