The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1825 |
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... Young musicians 206 Sir Eske Brock 125 Young sportsman's tale POETRY . Alas ! alas ! I cannot choose but INDEX .
... Young musicians 206 Sir Eske Brock 125 Young sportsman's tale POETRY . Alas ! alas ! I cannot choose but INDEX .
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... young lady 345 Inconstant 446 To a young lady with a wreath of Is love a crime flowers 268 182 I thought I had a friend 174 To the blue eyes of my Mary 159 Ignez de Castro 436 To the Æolian harp 475 The dream of Endymion 470 Love's ...
... young lady 345 Inconstant 446 To a young lady with a wreath of Is love a crime flowers 268 182 I thought I had a friend 174 To the blue eyes of my Mary 159 Ignez de Castro 436 To the Æolian harp 475 The dream of Endymion 470 Love's ...
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... young man of elegant and striking appearance had taken up his abode at the little village in which the residence of Al- leyn was situated . He had arrived there on foot and unattended . But that this mode of travelling could not have ...
... young man of elegant and striking appearance had taken up his abode at the little village in which the residence of Al- leyn was situated . He had arrived there on foot and unattended . But that this mode of travelling could not have ...
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... young and susceptible girl . Though his dark eyes and his ex- pressive countenance could be lit up at his command with the brilliancy and animation of genius , yet there was a pensiveness and deepness of thought in his countenance and ...
... young and susceptible girl . Though his dark eyes and his ex- pressive countenance could be lit up at his command with the brilliancy and animation of genius , yet there was a pensiveness and deepness of thought in his countenance and ...
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... young people ( un- happy man he made no distinction for the difference of their sexes ) should prefer their own society , to those of riper years ; while his daughter , whose innocent and unsuspecting heart fearing no danger because it ...
... young people ( un- happy man he made no distinction for the difference of their sexes ) should prefer their own society , to those of riper years ; while his daughter , whose innocent and unsuspecting heart fearing no danger because it ...
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Page 212 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.
Page 195 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 186 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 358 - I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose.
Page 317 - Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue ; I could see no end of my possessions: I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me. And...
Page 318 - And here let me caution persons grown old in active business, not lightly, nor without weighing their own resources, to forego their customary employment all at once, for there may be danger in it.
Page 358 - I can visit a sick friend. I can interrupt the man of much occupation when he is busiest. I can insult over him with an invitation to take a day's pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May morning. It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world carking and caring, like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round— and what is it all for?
Page 476 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 317 - For the first day or two I felt stunned — overwhelmed. I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years
Page 424 - How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. "Tis the Two Tables of the Law to him. He has nothing to think of but how to get well.