The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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... land - a faint yellow ray , that hovered over the whole scene like a silken garment waving . It came on the moss , it flowed over the river , it covered in the rock , it netted the trees - the pale , faint , yellow ray , like a sunbeam ...
... land - a faint yellow ray , that hovered over the whole scene like a silken garment waving . It came on the moss , it flowed over the river , it covered in the rock , it netted the trees - the pale , faint , yellow ray , like a sunbeam ...
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... land of their birth in indigence and wretchedness . The Falkland Island islands are situated between the latitudes 51 ° and 523 S. , and longitude 571 ° and 611 W. They consist of two large islands and numerous smaller ones , which vary ...
... land of their birth in indigence and wretchedness . The Falkland Island islands are situated between the latitudes 51 ° and 523 S. , and longitude 571 ° and 611 W. They consist of two large islands and numerous smaller ones , which vary ...
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... land during these six years , at the end of which time they are to become his property . * The cattle are very fine , the pasture being excellent , and that with the climate so well suited to them , that they are more than one - fifth ...
... land during these six years , at the end of which time they are to become his property . * The cattle are very fine , the pasture being excellent , and that with the climate so well suited to them , that they are more than one - fifth ...
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... land both for sheep and cattle , and the Tussac grass affords a fattening food for them during the winter . Fifthly , as the land is clear of trees , there is no expense ( as in New Zealand and North America ) in clearing it , while ...
... land both for sheep and cattle , and the Tussac grass affords a fattening food for them during the winter . Fifthly , as the land is clear of trees , there is no expense ( as in New Zealand and North America ) in clearing it , while ...
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... lands , prevailed on her husband to let her travel there . She was provided with a numerous train of dis- tinguished attendants , abundant store of jewels and precious metals , and letters of introduction , which were to ensure her a 22 ...
... lands , prevailed on her husband to let her travel there . She was provided with a numerous train of dis- tinguished attendants , abundant store of jewels and precious metals , and letters of introduction , which were to ensure her a 22 ...
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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.