New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Nide 60

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E. W. Allen, 1840
 

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Sivu 301 - 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.
Sivu 360 - 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...
Sivu 418 - 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.
Sivu 303 - Novermt [ie the law] whereunto they were born, and busie themselves with the endeavours of art, that could scarcely latinize their neck-verse, if they should have neede; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yeelds many good sentences, as...
Sivu 301 - With see-saw, sack-a-down, like a sawyer; Nor in a comic scene play Hercules Furens, Tearing your throat to split the audients...
Sivu 89 - Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap In imperceptible water. He had roll'd in money like pigs in mud, Till it seem'd to have enter'd into his blood By some occult projection : And his cheeks instead of a healthy hue, As yellow as any guinea grew, Making the common phrase seem true, About a rich complexion.
Sivu 298 - I took you rather for a (gentleman of great living, for if by outward habit men should be censured, I tell you, you would be taken for a substantial man.' ' So am I, where I dwell ' (quoth the player) ' reputed able, at my proper cost, to build a windmill.
Sivu 134 - Affghan ; but still the desperado continued to struggle with frantic violence. At length, in the fierce grapple, the brigadier for a moment got uppermost. Still retaining the weapon of his enemy in his left hand, he dealt him, with his right, a cut from his own sabre, which cleft his skull from the crown to the eyebrows. The Moohummedan once shouted " Uc Uilah," and never spoke or moved again.
Sivu 142 - Do you then hasten to take refuge on board the fleet at Misenum. Yonder cloud of hot ashes chides thy longer delay. . Feel no alarm for me — I shall live in story. The author of Pelham will rescue my name from oblivion.
Sivu 297 - On the other side of the hedge sat one that heard his sorrow, who getting over, came towards him, and brake off his passion. When he approached, he saluted Roberto in this sort: % "Gentleman...

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