The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 11821 |
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... given in our columns previously ing sound . to their appearance in any other English work ; that " ' God save great George our King , " and the whole portion of them contained in the volume lately pub - audience in rapturous enthusiasm ...
... given in our columns previously ing sound . to their appearance in any other English work ; that " ' God save great George our King , " and the whole portion of them contained in the volume lately pub - audience in rapturous enthusiasm ...
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... given , since the day of Adam , Such beets and parsnips , as East Haddam . " These lines partake of the spirit and patriotism of a couplet from an old correspondent , on seeing Colonel Cooke's famous beef cattle , some years since in ...
... given , since the day of Adam , Such beets and parsnips , as East Haddam . " These lines partake of the spirit and patriotism of a couplet from an old correspondent , on seeing Colonel Cooke's famous beef cattle , some years since in ...
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... given on a hill called the Cudry , I was had been killed about nine months back , by one or two gentlemen and a peou . The shrewdness of the man's replies , convinced the Duke that he was not the Abbot ; and looking stedfastly at him ...
... given on a hill called the Cudry , I was had been killed about nine months back , by one or two gentlemen and a peou . The shrewdness of the man's replies , convinced the Duke that he was not the Abbot ; and looking stedfastly at him ...
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... given to his friends , and on this occasion he celebrated his arrival among them by inviting the chief uobility and all the mili- tary officers who had shared and survived his cam- paigns . After supper , before any had departed , he ...
... given to his friends , and on this occasion he celebrated his arrival among them by inviting the chief uobility and all the mili- tary officers who had shared and survived his cam- paigns . After supper , before any had departed , he ...
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... given to the Haberdash- and banners of the devices of the company the meane way the ships were commanded ers , of which craft the maior was , that they of haberdashers and merchant adventurers , to lie on the shore for the letting of ...
... given to the Haberdash- and banners of the devices of the company the meane way the ships were commanded ers , of which craft the maior was , that they of haberdashers and merchant adventurers , to lie on the shore for the letting of ...
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Page 60 - Of the invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 60 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 60 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 60 - Dark-heaving : boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 159 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ?...
Page 60 - Roll on thou deep, and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain, Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 166 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 225 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 114 - I am always of easy faith in such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men ; and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the same. What is it to us, whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them, and enjoy all the charm of the reality ? There is nothing like resolute...
Page 138 - I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader.