The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1840 |
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... Gibson arrived . But his host , who perhaps anticipated this ultra - exactness , was ready to receive him , and the half- hour was spent very advantageously for Charles in tête - à - tête conver- sation with a man , equally favoured by ...
... Gibson arrived . But his host , who perhaps anticipated this ultra - exactness , was ready to receive him , and the half- hour was spent very advantageously for Charles in tête - à - tête conver- sation with a man , equally favoured by ...
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... Gibson to his own coffee - cup , and from his coffee - cup again to Mr. Gibson's face . But in this Arthur saw no very important drawback to the young man's success . " His learning is of another kind , " thought he . " He would have ...
... Gibson to his own coffee - cup , and from his coffee - cup again to Mr. Gibson's face . But in this Arthur saw no very important drawback to the young man's success . " His learning is of another kind , " thought he . " He would have ...
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... Gibson ; and , better still , Gibson knows every body . But , look ye , Charles , if you begin to get invitations in this way , I must positively send my tailor to you . That broad - cloth suit your good father boasted of may be kept as ...
... Gibson ; and , better still , Gibson knows every body . But , look ye , Charles , if you begin to get invitations in this way , I must positively send my tailor to you . That broad - cloth suit your good father boasted of may be kept as ...
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... Gibson , who was of a slight and rather delicate fabric , might have ventured upon so disproportioned an alliance , if not encouraged and stimulated by the lady's being in possession of ten thousand pounds , may be doubtful ; but be ...
... Gibson , who was of a slight and rather delicate fabric , might have ventured upon so disproportioned an alliance , if not encouraged and stimulated by the lady's being in possession of ten thousand pounds , may be doubtful ; but be ...
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... Gibson could have addressed in the words above quoted who would have listened to them with so satisfac- tory a degree of self - assured intelligence as himself . Charles Chester- field understood her perfectly . " Yes ! there is such ...
... Gibson could have addressed in the words above quoted who would have listened to them with so satisfac- tory a degree of self - assured intelligence as himself . Charles Chester- field understood her perfectly . " Yes ! there is such ...
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Página 299 - Dost thou come here to whine ? To outface me with leaping in her grave ? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Página 299 - Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Página 502 - SING aloud unto God our strength : make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Página 502 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Página 502 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Página 358 - Soften'd with the first breathings of the spring ; The high moon sails upon her beauteous way, Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces, Whose porphyry pillars, and whose costly fronts, Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles, Like altars ranged along the broad canal, Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed Rear'd up from out the waters...
Página 416 - Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. 18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her : for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled.
Página 297 - It is a common practice now-a-days, amongst a sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...
Página 83 - And the other sex — the tender — the fair — What wide reverses of fate are there ! Whilst Margaret, charm'd by the Bulbul rare, In a garden of Gul reposes — Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till— think of that, who find life so sweet !— She hates the smell of roses...
Página 502 - Praise the LORD with harp : sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.