The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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... eyes peep- ing from the briars and the roses ; this moment as a song that broke close , close upon your ear , and the next , as a distant peal of laughter , which dually died away to a small silvery tinkling like the clashing of flower ...
... eyes peep- ing from the briars and the roses ; this moment as a song that broke close , close upon your ear , and the next , as a distant peal of laughter , which dually died away to a small silvery tinkling like the clashing of flower ...
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... eyes would light up with a peculiar glow as he came near the small trim garden , and caught the shadow of her tall athletic person busied in her household work ; and he would look as if he loved to look upon her homely face , when she ...
... eyes would light up with a peculiar glow as he came near the small trim garden , and caught the shadow of her tall athletic person busied in her household work ; and he would look as if he loved to look upon her homely face , when she ...
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... eyes were blue as large forget - me - nots ; his hair was fair as woven gold ; a blush like that the setting sun casts upon the snow , mantled on his dimpled cheek ; and his arched and open lips were models for all ages to come ...
... eyes were blue as large forget - me - nots ; his hair was fair as woven gold ; a blush like that the setting sun casts upon the snow , mantled on his dimpled cheek ; and his arched and open lips were models for all ages to come ...
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... Eyes looked out from every flower ; on every leaf and stone a thousand tiny figures clustered ; each grass blade bent beneath their weight ; each leaf hung heavy as they clung ; the very air was darkened with their numbers , as they ...
... Eyes looked out from every flower ; on every leaf and stone a thousand tiny figures clustered ; each grass blade bent beneath their weight ; each leaf hung heavy as they clung ; the very air was darkened with their numbers , as they ...
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... eyes , - Plumes to deck our floating hair , Which only moths and fairies wear , - Crimson roses , -king - cups bright- Scented posies plucked at night , - Wind - flowers born beneath the moon , Those blossoms lorn which fade so soon ...
... eyes , - Plumes to deck our floating hair , Which only moths and fairies wear , - Crimson roses , -king - cups bright- Scented posies plucked at night , - Wind - flowers born beneath the moon , Those blossoms lorn which fade so soon ...
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Página 331 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Página 271 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Página 418 - Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 500 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Página 135 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Página 58 - King to place, or to depose him, Dwelleth not in my desire, But the duty which he owes him, To his master pays the squire.
Página 104 - ... and pulled me down on the body of an old man who was breathing out his last sigh. As the officer was pressing me to the ground we wrestled together among the dying and the dead with the energy of despair. I struggled with this man till I pulled him down, and happily got again upon my legs — (I afterwards found that he never rose again) — and scrambling over a pile of corpses, I made my way back into the body of the church, where I found my friends, and we succeeded in reaching the sacristy...
Página 172 - I approve of the business: only I desire to advise you that your' foot company ' may be turned into a troop of horse; which indeed will, by God's blessing, far more advantage the Cause than two or three companies of foot; especially if your men be honest godly men, which by all means I desire. I thank God for stirring up the youth to cast in their mite, which I desire may be employed to the best advantage; therefore my advice is, that you would employ your Twelve-score Pounds to buy pistols and saddles,...
Página 307 - ... Scarron's fun revived. When asked by the notary what was the young lady's fortune, he replied: 'Four louis, two large wicked eyes, one fine figure, one pair of good hands, and lots of mind.' 'And what do you give her?' asked the lawyer. — 'Immortality,' replied he, with the air of a bombastic poet 'The names of the wives of kings die with them — that of Scarron's wife will live for ever!
Página 140 - Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting at times to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning: she, in sooth, Possess'd an air and grace by no means common; Her stature tall— I hate a dumpy woman.