Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 22Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1847 |
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... stood by the side of the " Dandy King , " in the bow - window at White's , " the admired of all admirers , " shewing the age and body of the time , their forms and fashions , still struggled on , even against fate , 24 THE PENINSULAR ARMY .
... stood by the side of the " Dandy King , " in the bow - window at White's , " the admired of all admirers , " shewing the age and body of the time , their forms and fashions , still struggled on , even against fate , 24 THE PENINSULAR ARMY .
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... stood , and sent forth from each crag and hollow every variety of shadow . A range of mountains , like a vast curtain , was drawn around the extreme distance , and a yellow sluggish river , like a huge serpent , was lazily worming ...
... stood , and sent forth from each crag and hollow every variety of shadow . A range of mountains , like a vast curtain , was drawn around the extreme distance , and a yellow sluggish river , like a huge serpent , was lazily worming ...
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... stood , Dear Ninian Lindsay ! Ah ! whisper of the evening walks , adown that winding lane , Where the nightingale so sweetly to the wild rose would complain ; And you listen'd to a tale , more soft , and far more dear , Than the bird of ...
... stood , Dear Ninian Lindsay ! Ah ! whisper of the evening walks , adown that winding lane , Where the nightingale so sweetly to the wild rose would complain ; And you listen'd to a tale , more soft , and far more dear , Than the bird of ...
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... stood off again . It was a beautiful night - the moon sinking rapidly at the western horizon , did not lessen the brilliancy of the southern constellations , and Sirius looked like a little moon itself . I returned to my birth , and ...
... stood off again . It was a beautiful night - the moon sinking rapidly at the western horizon , did not lessen the brilliancy of the southern constellations , and Sirius looked like a little moon itself . I returned to my birth , and ...
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... stood boldly out in relief , induces me to believe , that the garrison is obliged to hoist ammunition and provisions direct from the boats into the fort . Whether the garrison , and their occasional visitors , have an easier mode of ...
... stood boldly out in relief , induces me to believe , that the garrison is obliged to hoist ammunition and provisions direct from the boats into the fort . Whether the garrison , and their occasional visitors , have an easier mode of ...
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Page 554 - I will go with her willingly. Nothing can be more affecting and melancholy to me than what I see here : yet he takes my visit so kindly, that I should have lost one great pleasure, had I not come. I have nothing more to say, as I have nothing in my mind but this present object, which indeed is extraordinary. This man was never born to die like other men, any more than to live like them.* I am ever yours, &c.
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Page 541 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 271 - with one foot on the land, and the other on the sea...
Page 252 - Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb; Perhaps the weakness of a heart not void Of feeling for some kindness done, when power Had left the wretch an uncorrupted hour.