Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 18Richard Bentley, 1845 - English literature |
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... minutes after he left in deep re- flection , from which he was aroused by the sound of the curfew , as the adjacent bell of Notre Dame , on the other side the left branch of the Seine , swung its booming echoes over the dreary precincts ...
... minutes after he left in deep re- flection , from which he was aroused by the sound of the curfew , as the adjacent bell of Notre Dame , on the other side the left branch of the Seine , swung its booming echoes over the dreary precincts ...
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... selves , and tumble down into the street ; and so they remained for some minutes , watching each other like two fencers , to be in readiness for any attack the other was about to make . THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS . 5.
... selves , and tumble down into the street ; and so they remained for some minutes , watching each other like two fencers , to be in readiness for any attack the other was about to make . THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS . 5.
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... minute had passed before they had pulled off their scarves , and some ten or a dozen standing in a circle laid hold of the different ends , pulling them tight , so as to form a sort of net - work , as they stood in a ring directly ...
... minute had passed before they had pulled off their scarves , and some ten or a dozen standing in a circle laid hold of the different ends , pulling them tight , so as to form a sort of net - work , as they stood in a ring directly ...
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... minute of silence , as they regarded each other with fixed intensity , waiting for the suggestion . Plunged as they were in the dregs of crime , they hesitated to unfold their plan , although they knew there was but one scheme intended ...
... minute of silence , as they regarded each other with fixed intensity , waiting for the suggestion . Plunged as they were in the dregs of crime , they hesitated to unfold their plan , although they knew there was but one scheme intended ...
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... minutes after she had spoken , broken only by the laboured breathing of either party , or the drip of water , as , stealing through the walls from the river , it fell upon the noisome floor . Each was waiting for the other to speak ...
... minutes after she had spoken , broken only by the laboured breathing of either party , or the drip of water , as , stealing through the walls from the river , it fell upon the noisome floor . Each was waiting for the other to speak ...
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Page 388 - To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy...
Page 387 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence — ripen, fall, and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 233 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 550 - At our feast we had a play called Twelve Night, or What you Will, much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 69 - Lay not too much upon the back of a poor gentleman, who desires, without much noise, to lay down his life, and bleed the last drop to serve the Cause and you. I ask not your money for myself: if that were my end and hope, — viz. the pay of my place, — I would not open my mouth at this time. I desire to deny myself; but others will not be satisfied. I beseech you hasten supplies. Forget not your prayers. Gentlemen, I am Yours, OLIVER CROMWELL.* ' Lay not too much upon a poor gentleman...
Page 198 - Birde as it perch'd upon a bier ; That joyous smile was gone. And the face was white and wan As the downe upon the swan Doth appear, As I laye a-thynkynge — oh ! bitter flow'd the tear ! 7.
Page 60 - Hold, Lady Sneerwell — before you go, let me thank you for the trouble you and that gentleman have taken, in writing letters from me to Charles, and answering them yourself; and let me also request you to make my respects to the scandalous college, of which you are president, and inform them, that Lady Teazle, licentiate, begs leave to return the diploma they granted her, as she leaves off practice, and kills characters no longer.
Page 465 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion ; and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Page 331 - But then my study was to cog the dice, And dexterously to throw the lucky sice ; To shun ames-ace, that swept my stakes away, •) And watch the box, for fear they should convey > False bones, and put upon me in the play ; 3 Careful, besides, the whirling top to whip, And drive her giddy, till she fell asleep.
Page 198 - As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, Sweetly sang the Birde as she sat upon the briar; There came a lovely Childe, And his face was meek and mild, Yet joyously he smiled On his sire; As I laye a-thynkynge, a Cherub mote admire.