The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1837 |
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... sure of an audience , and when no proposition is sufficiently monstrous to deprive its advocate of a following and a livelihood . We may know something of steam - engines ; we may be able to calculate an eclipse , or to analyse a gas ...
... sure of an audience , and when no proposition is sufficiently monstrous to deprive its advocate of a following and a livelihood . We may know something of steam - engines ; we may be able to calculate an eclipse , or to analyse a gas ...
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... sure to be anticipated , —the mass , moreover , having become readers , their tastes are to be consulted . The writer who gets the start of his age , or who soars above it , has no chance of a sale . If such be our recollections of the ...
... sure to be anticipated , —the mass , moreover , having become readers , their tastes are to be consulted . The writer who gets the start of his age , or who soars above it , has no chance of a sale . If such be our recollections of the ...
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... sure if , amongst the innumerable classes of domes- tics with which India abounds , there were such an officer as an Eatabadar to be had , Cuthbert would have him at any price . When we first met at Gosport , he was so evidently ...
... sure if , amongst the innumerable classes of domes- tics with which India abounds , there were such an officer as an Eatabadar to be had , Cuthbert would have him at any price . When we first met at Gosport , he was so evidently ...
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... sure , Mr. Gurney , " said Mrs. greatly obliged to you . " Wells , " the girls ought to be " I think they are , " said Cuthbert . " A man who has been abroad so long as I have has always something to communicate which is inte- resting ...
... sure , Mr. Gurney , " said Mrs. greatly obliged to you . " Wells , " the girls ought to be " I think they are , " said Cuthbert . " A man who has been abroad so long as I have has always something to communicate which is inte- resting ...
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... sure they should disturb the chess - players if they staid . ¡ Sniggs was a character - in his way ; he knew everything that was going on in the neighbourhood . The proverb , as Ray has it , says , " Children pick up words , as pigeons ...
... sure they should disturb the chess - players if they staid . ¡ Sniggs was a character - in his way ; he knew everything that was going on in the neighbourhood . The proverb , as Ray has it , says , " Children pick up words , as pigeons ...
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Página 132 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Página 515 - He grasped the mane with both his hands. And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Página 277 - Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before...
Página 207 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Página 586 - He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 147 - ALL love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until 'tis fine ; But, when 'tis settled on the lee, And from th' impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.
Página 277 - When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, 'Your pulse is in greater disorder than it should be, from the degree of fever which you have: is your mind at ease?' Goldsmith answered it was not.
Página 586 - How do you know that?" said the other. " Why, don't you remember," answered the little Virtuoso, " that ' Seven Roman cities strove for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread...
Página 11 - Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. This habit is best acquired by observing strictly the laws of the game, such as, " If you touch a piece, " you must move it somewhere; if you set it down,
Página 585 - Dr Adam, to whom I owed so much, never failed to remind me of my obligations when I had made some figure in the literary world. He was, indeed, deeply imbued with that fortunate vanity which alone could induce a man who has arms to pare and burn a muir, to submit to the yet more toilsome task of cultivating youth.