New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 135Henry Colburn, 1865 |
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Page 74
... glory and the folly of war , and who have the courage to place liberty , industry , and the cause of a general humanity in the front . IDALIA . BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRANVILLE DE VIGNE 74 A French Conscript at Leipsic and Waterloo .
... glory and the folly of war , and who have the courage to place liberty , industry , and the cause of a general humanity in the front . IDALIA . BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRANVILLE DE VIGNE 74 A French Conscript at Leipsic and Waterloo .
Page 75
IDALIA . BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRANVILLE DE VIGNE , ' 99 66 STRATHMORE , " & c . BOOK THE THIRD . IN THE ROSES OF THE EAST . CHAPTER VI . THE DAUGHTER OF EMPERORS . ONCE , twice , thrice , the days came and passed away , spent thus . He ...
IDALIA . BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRANVILLE DE VIGNE , ' 99 66 STRATHMORE , " & c . BOOK THE THIRD . IN THE ROSES OF THE EAST . CHAPTER VI . THE DAUGHTER OF EMPERORS . ONCE , twice , thrice , the days came and passed away , spent thus . He ...
Page 76
... Idalia's dress , while her hand rested on the dog's broad tawny head ; when the heat cooled , he took the oars of her caïque and rowed her down the shore , through the fragrant beds of water - weeds , and past fairy islands all odorous ...
... Idalia's dress , while her hand rested on the dog's broad tawny head ; when the heat cooled , he took the oars of her caïque and rowed her down the shore , through the fragrant beds of water - weeds , and past fairy islands all odorous ...
Page 77
... Idalia leant back among the cushions , the daz- zling play of her words ceasing for a while ; the moon's rays touching the proud arch of her brows , the clusters of her hair bound with a narrow gold band of antique workmanship , the ...
... Idalia leant back among the cushions , the daz- zling play of her words ceasing for a while ; the moon's rays touching the proud arch of her brows , the clusters of her hair bound with a narrow gold band of antique workmanship , the ...
Page 78
... west meet one another , and God would give us a paradise if men did not make us a hell . Dreams -dreams - youth is all a dream , and life too , some metaphysicians say . Idalia . Where shall we wake , I wonder , 78 Idalia .
... west meet one another , and God would give us a paradise if men did not make us a hell . Dreams -dreams - youth is all a dream , and life too , some metaphysicians say . Idalia . Where shall we wake , I wonder , 78 Idalia .
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 412 - ... us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 163 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.