The Daguerreotype, Band 3J. M. Whittemore, 1849 |
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... Macfum was a sprig , was an old , old piece of vegetation , at least so said Mr. Julius Macfum . If the historian may rely upon the testimony of this gentleman , the Macfums came to England with the Conqueror ; and , if the ...
... Macfum was a sprig , was an old , old piece of vegetation , at least so said Mr. Julius Macfum . If the historian may rely upon the testimony of this gentleman , the Macfums came to England with the Conqueror ; and , if the ...
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... Macfum . And Macfum , in the largeness of his heart and the emptiness of his pocket , determined to test the truth of his protégé's soul - to try whether he had discovered one trusting nature among the selfish and suspicious souls that ...
... Macfum . And Macfum , in the largeness of his heart and the emptiness of his pocket , determined to test the truth of his protégé's soul - to try whether he had discovered one trusting nature among the selfish and suspicious souls that ...
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... Macfum , that his ( Pursey's ) knowledge of horseflesh was limited to an occasional canter upon the ponies stationed on Blackheath , for the espe- cial patronage of those persons who do not ob- ject to broken knees in their horseflesh ...
... Macfum , that his ( Pursey's ) knowledge of horseflesh was limited to an occasional canter upon the ponies stationed on Blackheath , for the espe- cial patronage of those persons who do not ob- ject to broken knees in their horseflesh ...
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I wonder whether Macfum could get one a post in the Treasury . If Macfum can ' t , I should think Lord Condiment could , easily . Macfum is a deuced good fellow ; there's no mistake about that . What would Mary say , if she could see me ...
I wonder whether Macfum could get one a post in the Treasury . If Macfum can ' t , I should think Lord Condiment could , easily . Macfum is a deuced good fellow ; there's no mistake about that . What would Mary say , if she could see me ...
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... Macfum and the world . Macfum did not dis- guise the humbleness of his sleeping room from his aristocratic acquaintance . He called his apartment his perch , and talked of finding his roosting - place when he was about to with- draw for ...
... Macfum and the world . Macfum did not dis- guise the humbleness of his sleeping room from his aristocratic acquaintance . He called his apartment his perch , and talked of finding his roosting - place when he was about to with- draw for ...
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Seite 273 - As to the poetical character itself (I mean that sort, of which, if I am anything, I am a member; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone...
Seite 273 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity ; he is continually in for, and filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.
Seite 273 - A poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence, because he has no Identity — he is continually in for and filling some other Body — The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none, no identity — he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures.
Seite 307 - ... trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail ; And a single small Cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. She looks, and her heart is in heaven : but they fade, The mist and the river, the hill and the shade : The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all passed...
Seite 468 - CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Seite 272 - Castle of indolence. My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this side of faintness— if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lillies I should call it langour— but as I am * I must call it Laziness.
Seite 327 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses as far as we could see up the hill of the City,, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 46 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I. COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. By Louis AGASSIZ and AUGUSTUS A. GOULD. Revised edition.
Seite 273 - ... it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — it has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen.
Seite 327 - Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.