The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1839 - English literature |
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... give myself up to the officer and tell my own story- which I now see would have been the thing to do - and therefore lay perdu as they passed me , having in the midst of them five of my inti- mate friends , with their hands tied behind ...
... give myself up to the officer and tell my own story- which I now see would have been the thing to do - and therefore lay perdu as they passed me , having in the midst of them five of my inti- mate friends , with their hands tied behind ...
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... give you a letter to a most liberal and excellent friend of mine , no less a person than Prince Felderstein , whose territories , it is true , are not large , but whose spirit is noble , and whose liberality is unbounded - as far as his ...
... give you a letter to a most liberal and excellent friend of mine , no less a person than Prince Felderstein , whose territories , it is true , are not large , but whose spirit is noble , and whose liberality is unbounded - as far as his ...
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... give me a note ; having delivered which , he jumped back again , and was out of sight in a moment . I opened the missive of course , and read , " If Mr. Widdlezig wishes to keep his office , he will leave the park- wall as it is . " A ...
... give me a note ; having delivered which , he jumped back again , and was out of sight in a moment . I opened the missive of course , and read , " If Mr. Widdlezig wishes to keep his office , he will leave the park- wall as it is . " A ...
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... give us as keen a pleasure as in years long past , when they first led our steps away ? Time has no power over this enthusiasm- " it dieth not : " even when every face is cold , and every voice is still , of our faded life , and our ...
... give us as keen a pleasure as in years long past , when they first led our steps away ? Time has no power over this enthusiasm- " it dieth not : " even when every face is cold , and every voice is still , of our faded life , and our ...
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... give his heart to it . Ambition had been quenched by the sad circumstances of his life . He made many and persevering inquiries after his lost mother , and it should seem , by what occurred many years after , not wholly in vain : it was ...
... give his heart to it . Ambition had been quenched by the sad circumstances of his life . He made many and persevering inquiries after his lost mother , and it should seem , by what occurred many years after , not wholly in vain : it was ...
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Page 223 - Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other...
Page 347 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr...
Page 222 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, . Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 347 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell, And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 49 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 347 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 233 - Yea, thee, traitor,' quoth the protector. And another let fly at the lord Stanley, which shrunk at the stroke and fell under the table, or else his head had been cleft to the teeth ; for as shortly as he shrank, yet ran the blood about his ears. Then...
Page 349 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, 'Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Page 348 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Page 347 - Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy...