Scott's Monthly Magazine, Band 6,Ausgaben 1-7J.J. Toon, 1868 |
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... Miss Braddon's merits is a stupid , ignor- ant pedantic , priggish , hypocritical hum- bug - though we are sensible that , in trying to quote from memory , we do injustice to the vigor of his expressions . And by de- scending a step ...
... Miss Braddon's merits is a stupid , ignor- ant pedantic , priggish , hypocritical hum- bug - though we are sensible that , in trying to quote from memory , we do injustice to the vigor of his expressions . And by de- scending a step ...
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... Miss Betsy Trotwood's visit to poor Clara , and of Jane Eyre looking in at the window of Moorhouse cottage ; but you remembered that you had no aunt - in- law who would be likely to visit you in that mysterious manner , and that Jane ...
... Miss Betsy Trotwood's visit to poor Clara , and of Jane Eyre looking in at the window of Moorhouse cottage ; but you remembered that you had no aunt - in- law who would be likely to visit you in that mysterious manner , and that Jane ...
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... Miss Pleasants is a thinker and writer of high or- der , and her mission upon earth cannot but be both beautiful and profitable . The most ambitious and most faultless poem which she has yet written is called " The Viewless Bride ...
... Miss Pleasants is a thinker and writer of high or- der , and her mission upon earth cannot but be both beautiful and profitable . The most ambitious and most faultless poem which she has yet written is called " The Viewless Bride ...
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... Miss Swift's earnest counsels and inspiring " excelsior " of spirit , if I may use the expression , that she gained the perseverance that strives to conquer all things , and the energetic determination that , in spite of obstacles ...
... Miss Swift's earnest counsels and inspiring " excelsior " of spirit , if I may use the expression , that she gained the perseverance that strives to conquer all things , and the energetic determination that , in spite of obstacles ...
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... missed , with their feet chopped off . Parliament of Paris by Louis , and now the ferocious tyrant caused the severed head to be invested with the usual cap of office , and deposited in its proper place among the members of that legal ...
... missed , with their feet chopped off . Parliament of Paris by Louis , and now the ferocious tyrant caused the severed head to be invested with the usual cap of office , and deposited in its proper place among the members of that legal ...
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Seite 594 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Seite 633 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Seite 633 - Some men with swords may reap the field And plant fresh laurels where they^ kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Seite 633 - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Seite 590 - Shiver and whisper in the breeze ; Over it sailing shadows go Of soaring hawk and screaming crow ; And mountain grasses, low and sweet, Grow in the middle of every street. Over the river under the hill, Another village lieth still ; There I see in the cloudy night Twinkling stars of household light, Fires that gleam from the smithy's door, Mists that curl on the river shore ; And in the roads no grasses grow, For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
Seite 589 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Seite 522 - It is intended to overcome this difficulty by the partial operations suggested, and such other, as the particular case may require. We must endeavor to seize places on the railways, in the rear of the enemy's points of concentration, and we must threaten their sea-board cities, in order that...
Seite 60 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Seite 53 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Seite 724 - ... LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood, — Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out ; the bubble dies ; The spring entombed in autumn lies ; The dew dries up ; the star is shot ; The flight is past ; and man forgot.