New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen135Henry Colburn, 1865 |
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... party , though they sometimes were taken by Madeleine for a drive . Mrs. Percival sat generally in her own boudoir , the pretty morning- room which had been arranged for her by her kind friend Mr. Montague . She passed her time in ...
... party , though they sometimes were taken by Madeleine for a drive . Mrs. Percival sat generally in her own boudoir , the pretty morning- room which had been arranged for her by her kind friend Mr. Montague . She passed her time in ...
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... parties . Madeleine's good looks , under any circumstances , would not have lasted so well as Agnes's , for she had by no means such fine features as her sister , but ennui , spleen , mortification , and bad passions were doing their ...
... parties . Madeleine's good looks , under any circumstances , would not have lasted so well as Agnes's , for she had by no means such fine features as her sister , but ennui , spleen , mortification , and bad passions were doing their ...
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... parties , you never have people to stay here , and get up charades and private theatricals as others do . What is the use of you ? You might just as well be dead . It is a great pity you had not been a Catholic , you might have gone ...
... parties , you never have people to stay here , and get up charades and private theatricals as others do . What is the use of you ? You might just as well be dead . It is a great pity you had not been a Catholic , you might have gone ...
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... party to the ball , Madeleine again attacked her sister about going . " Why won't you go to the ball , Agnes ? I am sure it is so rare to have anything like civilised life in this dull place , that everybody ought to do their best , and ...
... party to the ball , Madeleine again attacked her sister about going . " Why won't you go to the ball , Agnes ? I am sure it is so rare to have anything like civilised life in this dull place , that everybody ought to do their best , and ...
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... parties , and the Opera , and concerts , and flower - fêtes , and everywhere , besides riding and driving in the Park . How have you kept your word ? Except when we went to Spa , and for a short time to Paris , I have been quite shut up ...
... parties , and the Opera , and concerts , and flower - fêtes , and everywhere , besides riding and driving in the Park . How have you kept your word ? Except when we went to Spa , and for a short time to Paris , I have been quite shut up ...
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Página 436 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Página 417 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 412 - ... us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer.
Página 290 - ... so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled, do infinite mischief to those who are so unlucky as to fall into their hands.
Página 420 - To withdraw myself from myself (oh. that cursed selfishness !) has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all ; and publishing is also the continuance of the same object, by the action it affords to the mind, which else recoils upon itself.
Página 163 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 161 - Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime, As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!
Página 440 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 166 - This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing immediately ceased on both sides ; and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been exploded.
Página 432 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.