The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 47Henry Colburn and Company, 1836 |
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... look gaunt . M. Pichon certainly means that this charity comes out of the Mecca endowment , for he says that the sur- ' plus , after the beggars have been served , is turned into the public trea- sury , and no longer goes to the Holy ...
... look gaunt . M. Pichon certainly means that this charity comes out of the Mecca endowment , for he says that the sur- ' plus , after the beggars have been served , is turned into the public trea- sury , and no longer goes to the Holy ...
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... look for from the settlement of the French in Africa , is the importation of medical and surgical art . It is true that the Mahometan doctrine of fatalism is opposed to the healing science , but we have a proof that that opposition is ...
... look for from the settlement of the French in Africa , is the importation of medical and surgical art . It is true that the Mahometan doctrine of fatalism is opposed to the healing science , but we have a proof that that opposition is ...
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... look upon the stately minuet , succeeded by the airy gavot , the best days of France appear to rise in courtly guise before us . The modern quadrilles give to our vision a beau ideal of her peasantry enjoying the fête du jour - the deep ...
... look upon the stately minuet , succeeded by the airy gavot , the best days of France appear to rise in courtly guise before us . The modern quadrilles give to our vision a beau ideal of her peasantry enjoying the fête du jour - the deep ...
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... look astonished and interchange mournful glances with each other , try to go on , and are laughed at again . Perhaps when the primo tenore is chanting some tale of love or misery , a fat gentleman will rise in the pit and tell the same ...
... look astonished and interchange mournful glances with each other , try to go on , and are laughed at again . Perhaps when the primo tenore is chanting some tale of love or misery , a fat gentleman will rise in the pit and tell the same ...
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... look on ; the occasion is divine ; I'll drop my glove , to prove his love ; great glory will be mine.- She dropp'd her glove to prove his love , then look'd at him and smiled ; He bow'd , and in a moment leap'd among the lions wild ...
... look on ; the occasion is divine ; I'll drop my glove , to prove his love ; great glory will be mine.- She dropp'd her glove to prove his love , then look'd at him and smiled ; He bow'd , and in a moment leap'd among the lions wild ...
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Page 398 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 273 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 402 - The following abstract or rather description of the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Page 498 - What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature! To...
Page 34 - twas a gallant thing to see that crowning show, Valor and love, and a king above, and the royal beasts below. Ramped and roared the lions, with horrid laughing jaws; They bit, they glared, gave blows like beams, a wind went with their paws; With wallowing might and stifled roar they rolled...
Page 34 - mongst them sat the Count de Lorge, with one for whom he sighed : And truly 'twas a gallant thing to see that crowning show, Valor and love, and a king above, and the royal beasts below.
Page 185 - For ever stare! O flat and shocking face, Grimly divided from the breast below! Thou that on dry land horribly dost go With a split body and most ridiculous pace, Prong after prong, disgracer of all grace, Long-useless-finned, haired, upright, unwet, slow!
Page 17 - Pavoa peacock, is a grave and majestic dance ; the method of dancing it was anciently by gentlemen dressed with a cap and sword, by those of the long robe in their gowns, by princes in their mantles, and by ladies in gowns with long trains, the motion whereof in the dance resembled that of a peacock's tail.
Page 13 - Ev'n the terror, Poison, Hath its plea for blooming ; Life it gives to reverent lips, though death to the presuming. And oh ! our sweet soul-taker, That thief, the honey-maker, What a house hath he, by the thymy glen ! In his talking rooms How the feasting fumes, Till...
Page 338 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.