The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1842 - English literature |
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... readers wise , he must himself occasion- ally play the fool . Mark how he commences the preface to his col- lected " Observators , " of which the first was published 13th of April , 1681 . " The disproportion and the indecorum of the ...
... readers wise , he must himself occasion- ally play the fool . Mark how he commences the preface to his col- lected " Observators , " of which the first was published 13th of April , 1681 . " The disproportion and the indecorum of the ...
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... readers I resign the task , though only too well aware that of these , not above one in five hundred can be expected to possess the faculty in sufficient vigour to do justice to the image I have suggested . Never , in truth , was there ...
... readers I resign the task , though only too well aware that of these , not above one in five hundred can be expected to possess the faculty in sufficient vigour to do justice to the image I have suggested . Never , in truth , was there ...
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... reader relax till she had , in loud and distinct tones , gone through the perusal of every docu- ment . But upon Patty's throwing down the last sheet , and exclaiming , " There , that's all ! " he immediately walked up to Miss Louisa ...
... reader relax till she had , in loud and distinct tones , gone through the perusal of every docu- ment . But upon Patty's throwing down the last sheet , and exclaiming , " There , that's all ! " he immediately walked up to Miss Louisa ...
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... reader may by this time be pretty to- lerably well aware , a good deal of native decisiveness of purpose in the character of Mrs. Allen Barnaby ; and when she had determined upon doing any thing , she generally did it . But ...
... reader may by this time be pretty to- lerably well aware , a good deal of native decisiveness of purpose in the character of Mrs. Allen Barnaby ; and when she had determined upon doing any thing , she generally did it . But ...
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... readers ( and more especially such of them as are in her majesty's service ) will be apt enough to tingle at the sound ; and it must needs be confessed that there are good and sufficient reasons why , in the ordinary intercourse of ...
... readers ( and more especially such of them as are in her majesty's service ) will be apt enough to tingle at the sound ; and it must needs be confessed that there are good and sufficient reasons why , in the ordinary intercourse of ...
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Page 16 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 493 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 269 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers. The composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Page 493 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 354 - em! No knowing 'em! No travelling at all - no locomotion, No inkling of the way - no notion 'No go' - by land or ocean No mail - no post No news from any foreign coast No Park - no Ring - no afternoon gentility - . •, No company - no nobility No warmth, no cheerfulness, no...
Page 354 - No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day — No sky — no earthly view — No distance looking blue — No road — no street — no
Page 388 - It is my lady ; Oh! it is my love : Oh, that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing : what of that ? Her eye discourses : I will answer it.
Page 364 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm i Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 493 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 289 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.