Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... prince and his companions were thus employing their time , Sir Francis Cottington and Endymion Porter were fully occupied in preparations for the journey to be undertaken next day . Their first business was to despatch a courier to King ...
... prince and his companions were thus employing their time , Sir Francis Cottington and Endymion Porter were fully occupied in preparations for the journey to be undertaken next day . Their first business was to despatch a courier to King ...
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... prince's deportment , and the noble character of his features , drew all eyes towards him , while Buckingham's stately figure and haughty manner made him also a mark for general observation . There were some fair ob- servers , however ...
... prince's deportment , and the noble character of his features , drew all eyes towards him , while Buckingham's stately figure and haughty manner made him also a mark for general observation . There were some fair ob- servers , however ...
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... prince with whom he was destined to be allied - or he might have be- stowed something more than a heedless glance upon him . However , though both were objects of interest to him , it was neither with the king nor the queen - mother ...
... prince with whom he was destined to be allied - or he might have be- stowed something more than a heedless glance upon him . However , though both were objects of interest to him , it was neither with the king nor the queen - mother ...
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... prince of very noble presence , and looked more robust than the king , though his features were not so handsome as those of Louis XIII . He was his mother's favourite son , and as she would gladly have seen him on the throne , she ...
... prince of very noble presence , and looked more robust than the king , though his features were not so handsome as those of Louis XIII . He was his mother's favourite son , and as she would gladly have seen him on the throne , she ...
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... prince in the midst , and their haughty reserve and taciturnity effectually isolated them from their neighbours , who regarded them with the dislike which Englishmen at all times have contrived to inspire among their Gallic neighbours ...
... prince in the midst , and their haughty reserve and taciturnity effectually isolated them from their neighbours , who regarded them with the dislike which Englishmen at all times have contrived to inspire among their Gallic neighbours ...
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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.