The Gentleman's Magazine, Band 243Bradbury, Evans, 1877 |
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... remains the same ; it is the fatal curse which attaches to the gold , or , which is the same in a moral sense , to the desire for gold— auri sacra fames . At first sight the tale of Sigurd , Fafnir's bane , seems to have little ...
... remains the same ; it is the fatal curse which attaches to the gold , or , which is the same in a moral sense , to the desire for gold— auri sacra fames . At first sight the tale of Sigurd , Fafnir's bane , seems to have little ...
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... remains for me to add a few words as to the manner , the literary style , in which this difficult task has been accomplished . This cannot be done better than by placing face to face a passage from the Volsunga Saga and the treat- ment ...
... remains for me to add a few words as to the manner , the literary style , in which this difficult task has been accomplished . This cannot be done better than by placing face to face a passage from the Volsunga Saga and the treat- ment ...
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... remains to the lady , in case the gallant should prove inconstant . . . . . A great part of their emulation consists in trying who shall get most ; and having no intrigue at all is a disgrace . " She adds that the ladies remarked , she ...
... remains to the lady , in case the gallant should prove inconstant . . . . . A great part of their emulation consists in trying who shall get most ; and having no intrigue at all is a disgrace . " She adds that the ladies remarked , she ...
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... remains of life well employed . A wife who had been banished her husband's hearth for years through no fault of her own would scarcely write thus . The greater portion of those long years was passed in a farm at Lovero , near Venice ...
... remains of life well employed . A wife who had been banished her husband's hearth for years through no fault of her own would scarcely write thus . The greater portion of those long years was passed in a farm at Lovero , near Venice ...
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... remains to make it exceedingly painful to those who have contemplated the Lady Mary of Thoresby . Her letters of this period are as vivacious , as clever , as hard , and as satirical as ever ; if the worm is gnawing at her heart , she ...
... remains to make it exceedingly painful to those who have contemplated the Lady Mary of Thoresby . Her letters of this period are as vivacious , as clever , as hard , and as satirical as ever ; if the worm is gnawing at her heart , she ...
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Seite 690 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Seite 438 - We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system — with all these exalted powers — Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Seite 84 - People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Seite 685 - ... himself in company, that hath not been pretty well polished in the shop of Minerva. I see robbers, hangmen, free-booters, tapsters, ostlers, and such like, of the very rubbish of the people, more learned now than the doctors and preachers were in my time. What shall I say? The very women and children have aspired to this praise and celestial manna of good learning.
Seite 88 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
Seite 92 - Lady Mary Wortley is arrived ;* I have seen her ; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries ; the groundwork rags, and the embroidery nastiness.
Seite 428 - But we must not fall into the error of supposing that the early progenitor of the whole Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey.
Seite 118 - A child's a plaything for an hour ; Its pretty tricks we try For that or for a longer space, — Then tire, and lay it by. But I knew one that to itself All seasons could control ; That would have mock'd the sense of pain Out of a grieved soul. Thou straggler into loving arms, Young climber up of knees, When I forget thy thousand ways Then life and all shall cease ! M.
Seite 480 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge...
Seite 116 - Poetry for Children, entirely original ; by the Author of Mrs. Leicester's School, 1809.