Spirit of the English Magazines, Band 11Munroe and Francis, 1822 |
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... mind , than one sharing his thoughts with others , and the general purport of such imperfect sentences as could be heard was that he had vowed many men should perish for some irreparable wrong they had offered to a lady . Sometimes he ...
... mind , than one sharing his thoughts with others , and the general purport of such imperfect sentences as could be heard was that he had vowed many men should perish for some irreparable wrong they had offered to a lady . Sometimes he ...
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... mind , That pants for more than earth can give ; Man , in this narrow sphere confin'd , Dies when he but begins to live . Oh ! if there be no world on high To yield his powers unfetter'd scope ; If man be only born to die , Whence this ...
... mind , That pants for more than earth can give ; Man , in this narrow sphere confin'd , Dies when he but begins to live . Oh ! if there be no world on high To yield his powers unfetter'd scope ; If man be only born to die , Whence this ...
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... mind supe- rior to the generality of men , " and that having " seen much of mankind in various stations of life , though consid- ered more as a plaything than as a com- panion , he had omitted no opportunity of making remarks . " On ...
... mind supe- rior to the generality of men , " and that having " seen much of mankind in various stations of life , though consid- ered more as a plaything than as a com- panion , he had omitted no opportunity of making remarks . " On ...
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... mind gliding at " its own sweet will " through the fair regions of imagination and of human- ity which it has chosen . The peculiar excellences of our au- thor - his power of conceiving and de- lineating character - his command of ...
... mind gliding at " its own sweet will " through the fair regions of imagination and of human- ity which it has chosen . The peculiar excellences of our au- thor - his power of conceiving and de- lineating character - his command of ...
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... mind which sets down its sensations in a note - book , and thinks how they can be most artfully disposed to awaken inter- est in the public . It is very curious and edifying to observe the progress of this alteration in the mind of ...
... mind which sets down its sensations in a note - book , and thinks how they can be most artfully disposed to awaken inter- est in the public . It is very curious and edifying to observe the progress of this alteration in the mind of ...
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Seite 262 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing ; less than nothing ; and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Seite 262 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Seite 223 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 't is only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Seite 262 - I was lame-footed; and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died a great while ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death...
Seite 319 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Seite 261 - ... carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would be foolish indeed.
Seite 261 - ... or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings...
Seite 200 - Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses — Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?
Seite 250 - tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy...
Seite 261 - CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame whom they never saw.