New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 104

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Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth
Henry Colburn, 1855
 

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Pagina 298 - tis true : The elder of them, being put to nurse, "Was by a beggar-woman stol'n away ; And, ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a bricklayer when he came to age : His son am I ; deny it, if you can.
Pagina 163 - ... new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid, and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Pagina 65 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Pagina 25 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Pagina 161 - Thee disposed into congenial soils Stands each attractive plant, and sucks and swells The juicy tide ; a twining mass of tubes.
Pagina 61 - See' ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Pagina 62 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Pagina 231 - Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all to-night. These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose: she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady Frances...
Pagina 231 - I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
Pagina 352 - Amesbury, a village consisting of a few scattered farms and cottages : ' once a week a ' butcher's cart came over from Salisbury ; it was then only he ' could obtain any meat, and he often dined, he said, on a mess ' of potatoes sprinkled with a little ketchup.

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