The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1843 - English literature |
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... tell us , with a kind of prickle , so that he can spur as well as lash himself into a hasty fit , lying as idle and still as a torpid snake . Did you ever see an attitude more expressive of lassitude , and yet he hath but taken a few ...
... tell us , with a kind of prickle , so that he can spur as well as lash himself into a hasty fit , lying as idle and still as a torpid snake . Did you ever see an attitude more expressive of lassitude , and yet he hath but taken a few ...
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... tell you the truth , " was the frank reply , " I am obliged to run about the world to keep ahead of my character ; the moment it over- takes me I am ruined ; but I don't care who knows me so long as I travel incognito . " Boswell ...
... tell you the truth , " was the frank reply , " I am obliged to run about the world to keep ahead of my character ; the moment it over- takes me I am ruined ; but I don't care who knows me so long as I travel incognito . " Boswell ...
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... got some foreign silks about me pinn'd , In short so many things , all contraband , To tell the truth , I am afraid to land , In such a searching wind ! " RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY . No. XVI . I go 16 A Custom - house Breeze .
... got some foreign silks about me pinn'd , In short so many things , all contraband , To tell the truth , I am afraid to land , In such a searching wind ! " RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY . No. XVI . I go 16 A Custom - house Breeze .
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... tell us all about him . " " We were speaking of Q. Do you know him ? " " I have that honour . " " Is he not a very curious kind of person , -quite an original ? " " His writings , I believe , have the latter merit . " " Is it really ...
... tell us all about him . " " We were speaking of Q. Do you know him ? " " I have that honour . " " Is he not a very curious kind of person , -quite an original ? " " His writings , I believe , have the latter merit . " " Is it really ...
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... tell them - that they are turning the very milky way of love that was flowing towards them with a spring tide , through the breasts of their fellow - creatures , into gall ? Will they not perceive that they are carrying desolation where ...
... tell them - that they are turning the very milky way of love that was flowing towards them with a spring tide , through the breasts of their fellow - creatures , into gall ? Will they not perceive that they are carrying desolation where ...
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Page 126 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 98 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Page 128 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 179 - Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And said,
Page 128 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 128 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 344 - Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud resting on the bosom of the blue expanse, which reminded us of what we had seen in some picture in the Louvre. We were suddenly roused from our reverie by recollecting that till we had answered...
Page 98 - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Page 395 - Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings, I felt a sense of pain when I beheld The silent trees, and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods.
Page 127 - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.