Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... France . 250 The Bride of Leon . By Louisa Stuart Costello The Last Days of Charles Albert : ex - King of Sardinia Facts and Fancies . . 256 . 268 . 278 Tasso . 289 Matthew Bramble . Typically considered . By Francis Jacox . 295 Antoine ...
... France . 250 The Bride of Leon . By Louisa Stuart Costello The Last Days of Charles Albert : ex - King of Sardinia Facts and Fancies . . 256 . 268 . 278 Tasso . 289 Matthew Bramble . Typically considered . By Francis Jacox . 295 Antoine ...
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... France , and it signifies little what we are called . " At this juncture , a servant entered to say that a messenger from the Duc de Monbazon was without , and shortly afterwards a well- dressed personage was shown into the room . He ...
... France , and it signifies little what we are called . " At this juncture , a servant entered to say that a messenger from the Duc de Monbazon was without , and shortly afterwards a well- dressed personage was shown into the room . He ...
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... France , Duc d'Orléans , conducting Mademoiselle de Montpensier , whom he subsequently espoused . Monsieur , as the Duc d'Orléans was styled , was presumptive heir to the throne , the king being as yet without issue by his union with ...
... France , Duc d'Orléans , conducting Mademoiselle de Montpensier , whom he subsequently espoused . Monsieur , as the Duc d'Orléans was styled , was presumptive heir to the throne , the king being as yet without issue by his union with ...
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... France , then the most elegant and refined as well as the most aristocratic in Europe , could boast in the way of nobility and high birth , was present . The chief beauties and the most accomplished gallants belonging to a court ...
... France , then the most elegant and refined as well as the most aristocratic in Europe , could boast in the way of nobility and high birth , was present . The chief beauties and the most accomplished gallants belonging to a court ...
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... France . " Then feeling she had said too much , she added , " To you , my lord , I will venture to utter what I would confide to few others . My heart is in Spain - I am still a stranger here , and shall ever continue so . When you see ...
... France . " Then feeling she had said too much , she added , " To you , my lord , I will venture to utter what I would confide to few others . My heart is in Spain - I am still a stranger here , and shall ever continue so . When you see ...
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Page 410 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 71 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 619 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 521 - When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll, And swelling organs lift the rising soul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight : In seas of flame my plunging soul is drown'd, While altars blaze, and angels tremble round.
Page 523 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving ; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving ; There, thy rest shalt thou take, Parted for ever, Never again to wake, Never, O never.
Page 618 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Page 619 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 411 - The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom, " passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 295 - He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness.
Page 78 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steamengine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.