Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Τόμος 151871 - 2 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... poor wives blushed to own that these had still a lurking desire for an occasional social evening at the Coach and Horses , in spite of the charms of a gothic chimney , and a porch that was massive enough for the dungeon of a medieval ...
... poor wives blushed to own that these had still a lurking desire for an occasional social evening at the Coach and Horses , in spite of the charms of a gothic chimney , and a porch that was massive enough for the dungeon of a medieval ...
Σελίδα 19
... poor soul ! but that was all . I was never " in love " till I knew your daughter ; never understood the meaning of the phrase . Of all the accidents that might have happened to me , this is the most sur- prising to myself , believe me ...
... poor soul ! but that was all . I was never " in love " till I knew your daughter ; never understood the meaning of the phrase . Of all the accidents that might have happened to me , this is the most sur- prising to myself , believe me ...
Σελίδα 21
... poor people ! though I daresay she is kind to them , in her way ; but imagine any one coming in here and opening all our cupboards , and spying out cobwebs , and giving a little shriek at the discovery of a new loaf in our larder . She ...
... poor people ! though I daresay she is kind to them , in her way ; but imagine any one coming in here and opening all our cupboards , and spying out cobwebs , and giving a little shriek at the discovery of a new loaf in our larder . She ...
Σελίδα 23
... Poor papa is to be buried to - morrow ; but I wanted so much to see you on a most important business ; so I ordered the brougham and drove here , with the blinds down all the way , so that no one might see me ; and I'm sure , Clary ...
... Poor papa is to be buried to - morrow ; but I wanted so much to see you on a most important business ; so I ordered the brougham and drove here , with the blinds down all the way , so that no one might see me ; and I'm sure , Clary ...
Σελίδα 42
... poor stipends . They have recourse to the biographers who have gone before them ; and the result is , that the majority of our portly , glossy , splendidly - bound modern encyclopedias are , in a hundred instances , merely perpetuations ...
... poor stipends . They have recourse to the biographers who have gone before them ; and the result is , that the majority of our portly , glossy , splendidly - bound modern encyclopedias are , in a hundred instances , merely perpetuations ...
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Σελίδα 288 - Than that a child, more than all other gifts That Earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts, And stirrings of inquietude, when they By tendency of nature needs must fail.
Σελίδα 73 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Σελίδα 195 - written at three, four, and five o'clock (in the morning) by an octogenary pen ; a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and as HLP feels it to be, all your own.
Σελίδα 90 - Burns's manner was the effect produced upon him by a print of Bunbury's, representing a soldier lying dead on the snow, his dog sitting in misery on one side — on the other, his widow, with a child in her arms. These lines were written beneath: — • * Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew.
Σελίδα 342 - Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist, And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist ; And then thou hast the " Navy List,
Σελίδα 73 - twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Σελίδα 452 - But, for the general award of love, The little sweet doth kill much bitterness ; Though Dido silent is in under-grove, And Isabella's was a great distress, Though young Lorenzo in warm Indian clove Was not embalm'd, this truth is not the less — Even bees, the little almsmen of spring -bowers, Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
Σελίδα 186 - cried Mrs Thrale ; ' pray who is she ? ' ' Oh, a fine character, madam ! She was habitually a slut and a drunkard, and occasionally a thief and a harlot.
Σελίδα 186 - I could not help expressing my amazement at his universal readiness upon all subjects, and Mrs. Thrale said to him, "Sir, Miss Burney wonders at your patience with such stuff; but I tell her you are used to me, for I believe I torment you with more foolish questions than anybody else dares do." "No, madam," said he, "you don't torment me; -you tease me, indeed, sometimes." "Ay, so I do, Dr. Johnson, and I wonder you bear with my nonsense.
Σελίδα 87 - ... from it in the afternoon; here's a rogue, dog, here's conscience and honesty ; this is your wit now, this is the morality of your wits ! You are a wit, and have been a beau, and may be a—- why sirrah, is it not here under hand and seal — can you deny it ? VAL.