The Metropolitan, Volume 22James Cochrane, 1838 |
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Pagina 4
... face and figure only imbecility and inanition . * The large- ness of his conceptions annihilated the theory of bumps - it confounded the skull - science of all Paris . None could look on him without wonder that he could possess so ...
... face and figure only imbecility and inanition . * The large- ness of his conceptions annihilated the theory of bumps - it confounded the skull - science of all Paris . None could look on him without wonder that he could possess so ...
Pagina 24
... face , perhaps there is nothing so attractive as an exquisite voice ; indeed , it is difficult to say which will command the most attention . Besides , if the voice is deficient , or the perform- ance merely instrumental , the bustle ...
... face , perhaps there is nothing so attractive as an exquisite voice ; indeed , it is difficult to say which will command the most attention . Besides , if the voice is deficient , or the perform- ance merely instrumental , the bustle ...
Pagina 35
... face ; " we done nothin ' . " " Bad luck to yere sowl and body ! " she exclaimed , with such a brow , and such an eye , as no Irish mother but her ever bent on her child , causing her husband to recoil ; but which her less sensitive son ...
... face ; " we done nothin ' . " " Bad luck to yere sowl and body ! " she exclaimed , with such a brow , and such an eye , as no Irish mother but her ever bent on her child , causing her husband to recoil ; but which her less sensitive son ...
Pagina 39
... face buried between her knees , in sullen silence . Peggy , who had gone out with the refuse of their meal to the pig , now ran in , blushing- " Here's the English soger , father . " - The person announced in a few seconds made his ...
... face buried between her knees , in sullen silence . Peggy , who had gone out with the refuse of their meal to the pig , now ran in , blushing- " Here's the English soger , father . " - The person announced in a few seconds made his ...
Pagina 46
... face that implied somewhat beyond the vacant sportiveness of youth . Interfering friends , meanwhile , were not wanting , to remonstrate with Mr. Heneage upon the extraordinary education he was bestowing upon a girl likely to be so ...
... face that implied somewhat beyond the vacant sportiveness of youth . Interfering friends , meanwhile , were not wanting , to remonstrate with Mr. Heneage upon the extraordinary education he was bestowing upon a girl likely to be so ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Pagina 99 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Pagina 112 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Pagina 292 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise...
Pagina 112 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pagina 249 - If some proud brother eyed me with disdain, Or scornful sister with her sweeping train, Thy gentle accents soften'd all my pain. For thee I mourn, and mourn myself in thee, The wretched source of all this misery. The fate I caused, for ever I bemoan; Sad Helen has no friend, now thou art gone! Through Troy's wide streets abandon'd shall I roam! In Troy deserted, as abhorr'd at home!
Pagina 112 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Pagina 100 - MAIDEN ! heir of kings ! A king has left his place ! The majesty of Death has swept All other from his face ! And thou upon thy mother's breast, No longer lean adown, But take the glory for the rest, And rule the land that loves thee best...
Pagina 103 - Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world; his descriptions have always some peculiarities, gathered by contemplating things as they really exist.
Pagina 315 - After so long an agitation of the spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain of what hands she might fall into, appeared an effort above human nature.
Pagina 72 - State — not their alliance, but their separation — on the Spirit of the World and the Spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had 'inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.