Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... on the expedition , and John Smith I will continue till I reach Madrid . " " And I of course shall remain brother Tom , " said Buckingham . " After all , one English name is as good B 2 THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CHIMNEYS . 3.
... on the expedition , and John Smith I will continue till I reach Madrid . " " And I of course shall remain brother Tom , " said Buckingham . " After all , one English name is as good B 2 THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CHIMNEYS . 3.
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... course of events , Gaston was ever conspiring against his royal brother , but his designs were invariably baffled by the vigilance of Richelieu , who surrounded him with spies , and received intelligence of all his machinations . The ...
... course of events , Gaston was ever conspiring against his royal brother , but his designs were invariably baffled by the vigilance of Richelieu , who surrounded him with spies , and received intelligence of all his machinations . The ...
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... course will be to depart at once . " " Where is the king ? " demanded Anne of Austria , uneasily . " Madame , he is in the ball - room at this moment , " replied Mon- bazon ; " but he is certain to come hither before long , and if he ...
... course will be to depart at once . " " Where is the king ? " demanded Anne of Austria , uneasily . " Madame , he is in the ball - room at this moment , " replied Mon- bazon ; " but he is certain to come hither before long , and if he ...
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... course of two years , these two years will be sufficient to form a Papal army , with the help of France , strong enough and sufficiently well organised to offer the Papal government all desirable security , now that it no longer has any ...
... course of two years , these two years will be sufficient to form a Papal army , with the help of France , strong enough and sufficiently well organised to offer the Papal government all desirable security , now that it no longer has any ...
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... course , his Eminence is a much older man . Beginning the conversa- tion in Italian , though he speaks French , Greek , German , Spanish , Latin , Polynesian , and Hebrew with the greatest facility - having ob- tained the gold medal for ...
... course , his Eminence is a much older man . Beginning the conversa- tion in Italian , though he speaks French , Greek , German , Spanish , Latin , Polynesian , and Hebrew with the greatest facility - having ob- tained the gold medal for ...
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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.