The New Monthly Magazine, Band 103

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Chapman and Hall (Adams and Francis; E.W. Allen), 1855
 

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Seite 456 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands, a chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go,
Seite 481 - In another edition of his Tour, in which he describes the state of the road between Preston and Wigan, in 1770, he cannot restrain his anger: " I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal
Seite 305 - at Brookes's—all his disciples. His bristly, black person, and shagged breast, quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown, and his bushy hair dishevelled. In these Cynic weeds, and with Epicurean good-humour, did he dictate his politics, and in this school did the heir
Seite 26 - To adjust the minute events of literary history is tedious and troublesome: it requires, indeed, no great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand.
Seite 374 - was infested with the spirit of stock-jobbing to an astonishing degree. All distinctions of party, religion, sex, character, and circumstances were swallowed up. Exchange-alley was filled with a strange concourse of statesmen and clergymen, churchmen and dissenters, Whigs and Tories, physicians, lawyers, tradesmen, and even with females; all other professions and employments were utterly neglected.
Seite 305 - bushy hair dishevelled. In these Cynic weeds, and with Epicurean good-humour, did he dictate his politics, and in this school did the heir to the crown attend his lessons and imbibe them. Fox's followers, to whom he never enjoined Pythagorean silence, were strangely licentious in their conversations about the king. At
Seite 420 - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery, including Selections from his Correspondence, Remains in Prose and Verse, and Conversations on Various Subjects. By John Holland and James Everett. Vols. I.,
Seite 324 - up that I may show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Seite 477 - In December, 1703, Charles III., King of Spain, slept at Petworth, on his way from Portsmouth to Windsor, and Prince George of Denmark went to meet him there, by desire of the queen. In the narrative of the journey given by one of the prince's attendants, we find the following curious particulars:
Seite 479 - to Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust : " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from

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