Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 5Richard Bentley, 1839 - Literature |
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... spirit I drink may be poison , -it may kill me , perhaps it is killing me : -but so would hunger , cold , misery , so would my own thoughts . I should have gone mad without it . Gin is the poor man's friend , his sole set - off against ...
... spirit I drink may be poison , -it may kill me , perhaps it is killing me : -but so would hunger , cold , misery , so would my own thoughts . I should have gone mad without it . Gin is the poor man's friend , his sole set - off against ...
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... spirit of the suicide , that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted , and was , consequently , entirely abandoned . In this state Mrs. Sheppard found it ; and , as no one opposed her , she at once took up her abode ...
... spirit of the suicide , that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted , and was , consequently , entirely abandoned . In this state Mrs. Sheppard found it ; and , as no one opposed her , she at once took up her abode ...
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... spirit . " It's very well you haven't crushed the poor little thing to death with this confounded clothes ' - bag . But some people have no consideration . " " That child may be the means of saving me , " muttered the stranger , as if ...
... spirit . " It's very well you haven't crushed the poor little thing to death with this confounded clothes ' - bag . But some people have no consideration . " " That child may be the means of saving me , " muttered the stranger , as if ...
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... spirits for an encounter . " Let us in , " said the Master , rapping his truncheon authori- tatively against the boards , " or we'll force an entrance . " But as no answer was returned to this summons , though it was again , and more ...
... spirits for an encounter . " Let us in , " said the Master , rapping his truncheon authori- tatively against the boards , " or we'll force an entrance . " But as no answer was returned to this summons , though it was again , and more ...
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... spirit , in the highest energies of his intellect , in the perfect bloom of his affections , we find him torn from ... spirits of the world , and from out your dreary dungeons shall go for ever forth , " appeals from tyranny to God ...
... spirit , in the highest energies of his intellect , in the perfect bloom of his affections , we find him torn from ... spirits of the world , and from out your dreary dungeons shall go for ever forth , " appeals from tyranny to God ...
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Page 30 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 48 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 45 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility'? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 47 - In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 82 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 283 - If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, 'the law is a ass— a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience— by experience.
Page 48 - The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are.
Page 260 - And a magic voice and verse Hath baptized thee with a curse ; And a spirit of the air Hath begirt thee with a snare : In the wind there is a voice Shall forbid thee to rejoice ; And to thee shall Night deny All the quiet of her sky ; And the day shall have a sun, 230 Which shall make thee wish it done.
Page 149 - God, yet they defer from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, from year to year, the practice of these duties.
Page 98 - May-pole once o'erlook'd the Strand, But now (so ANNE and Piety ordain) A Church collects the saints of Drury-lane. With Authors, Stationers obey'd the call (The field of glory is a field for all). Glory, and gain, th' industrious tribe provoke; And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.