The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23Saunders and Otley, 1838 |
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... nature , and which , to the eyes of any one who has noticed cemeteries in other countries , is particularly disagreeable . Notwithstanding its unsightly state , the little churchyard of which we speak was , however , when we last saw it ...
... nature , and which , to the eyes of any one who has noticed cemeteries in other countries , is particularly disagreeable . Notwithstanding its unsightly state , the little churchyard of which we speak was , however , when we last saw it ...
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... nature - and they shall answer for it to me , by heaven ! " " They shall , William ! " cried his cousin James , warmly clasping his hand ; " and I , for one , am ready to help you to make them do so . But first of all , we must attend ...
... nature - and they shall answer for it to me , by heaven ! " " They shall , William ! " cried his cousin James , warmly clasping his hand ; " and I , for one , am ready to help you to make them do so . But first of all , we must attend ...
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... nature he has made ! " " I think I can guess at what you mean , sir , " remarked Cassin ; " there was some talk of a lady between you both , at that same time . " Hutchinson half turned away , and for a few moments seemed to speak as if ...
... nature he has made ! " " I think I can guess at what you mean , sir , " remarked Cassin ; " there was some talk of a lady between you both , at that same time . " Hutchinson half turned away , and for a few moments seemed to speak as if ...
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... nature and art . The building itself is one of great magnitude . On entering the gate , a spacious quadrangle presents itself . On the south side is an Ionic colonnade . Directly before you is the main building , while the two wings on ...
... nature and art . The building itself is one of great magnitude . On entering the gate , a spacious quadrangle presents itself . On the south side is an Ionic colonnade . Directly before you is the main building , while the two wings on ...
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... natural and artificial curiosities , collected in the then newly - discovered South Sea Islands . Some idea of the ... nature and art which are here exhibited are so varied , and are all so wonderful of their respective kinds , that ...
... natural and artificial curiosities , collected in the then newly - discovered South Sea Islands . Some idea of the ... nature and art which are here exhibited are so varied , and are all so wonderful of their respective kinds , that ...
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Page 245 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 33 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long!
Page 76 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 80 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 117 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Page 352 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 77 - But that same gentle Spirit, from whose pen Large streames of honnie and sweete Nectar flowe, Scorning the boldnes of such base-borne men, Which dare their follies forth so rashlie throwe, Doth rather choose to sit in idle Cell, Than so himselfe to mockerie to sell.
Page 122 - Id have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 5 - Mother baking bread, with her children round her : — all hidden and protectingly folded up in the valley-folds ; yet there and alive, as sure as if I beheld them. Or to see, as well as fancy, the nine Towns and Villages, that lay round my mountain-seat, which, in still weather, were wont to speak to me (by their steeple-bells) with metal tongue ; and, in almost all weather, proclaimed their vitality by repeated Smoke-clouds ; whereon, as on a culinary horologe, I might read the hour of the day.
Page 125 - How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...