Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 28Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1850 - Literature |
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... remarkable tact and activity . She had acquired from the la- mented Stubbs an insight into the art of popularity , which she turned to practical account amongst the waifs and strays who took up their occasional residence in her house ...
... remarkable tact and activity . She had acquired from the la- mented Stubbs an insight into the art of popularity , which she turned to practical account amongst the waifs and strays who took up their occasional residence in her house ...
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... remarkable and no less equivocal - a loose coat with great pockets , a monstrous pair of trousers with a broad stripe down the sides , flapping over a prodigious pair of dirty boots , an old black handkerchief winding in a narrow stream ...
... remarkable and no less equivocal - a loose coat with great pockets , a monstrous pair of trousers with a broad stripe down the sides , flapping over a prodigious pair of dirty boots , an old black handkerchief winding in a narrow stream ...
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... remarkable specimens of fontal art in Trafalgar Square . Availing myself of a stranger's privilege , I entered several of the court - yards , and generally found them planted with choice flowers and fragrant shrubs , the datura fastuosa ...
... remarkable specimens of fontal art in Trafalgar Square . Availing myself of a stranger's privilege , I entered several of the court - yards , and generally found them planted with choice flowers and fragrant shrubs , the datura fastuosa ...
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... remarkable , that the temptation of briefly narrating them is irresis- tible . The attack was made at night , and the boats of the squadron were ordered to make for the Mole , to land the seamen and marines . As they approached , a ...
... remarkable , that the temptation of briefly narrating them is irresis- tible . The attack was made at night , and the boats of the squadron were ordered to make for the Mole , to land the seamen and marines . As they approached , a ...
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... remarkable for their dryness . To this the extraordinary state of preservation in which the remains are found is due , more than to the rude sort of embalming they under- went . In the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in ...
... remarkable for their dryness . To this the extraordinary state of preservation in which the remains are found is due , more than to the rude sort of embalming they under- went . In the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in ...
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Page 208 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 571 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 576 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 646 - We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 579 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out, For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful, and good husbandry...
Page 481 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Page 72 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 576 - And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons; I have heard, The cock that is the trumpet to the morn Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day...
Page 569 - COME, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free ; And drink to your hearts
Page 316 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.