Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 50Richard Bentley, 1861 |
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... English shores . The Admiral was appointed Lord - Lieutenant of the South , and the defence of the whole south coast was entrusted to him . He had indulged the hope that during his absence his brother would dele- gate his powers to him ...
... English shores . The Admiral was appointed Lord - Lieutenant of the South , and the defence of the whole south coast was entrusted to him . He had indulged the hope that during his absence his brother would dele- gate his powers to him ...
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... English ; and efforts were made to render the lives of the clergy more exemplary . The terrible statute of the Six Articles , passed by the late king , was re- pealed . Many old superstitious rites were abolished . An order of the ...
... English ; and efforts were made to render the lives of the clergy more exemplary . The terrible statute of the Six Articles , passed by the late king , was re- pealed . Many old superstitious rites were abolished . An order of the ...
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... English courts , after increasing from 1826 to 1840 , remained stationary from 1846 to 1855 , and then diminished . In 1857 the number of prisoners brought up for indictable offences was . and for ordinary offences 20,269 369,233 Total ...
... English courts , after increasing from 1826 to 1840 , remained stationary from 1846 to 1855 , and then diminished . In 1857 the number of prisoners brought up for indictable offences was . and for ordinary offences 20,269 369,233 Total ...
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... English offences , so that if their total be reduced to that extent , for the purpose of com- parison , there would be 268,000 to deduct from it , which , added to the 62,000 culprits already indicated as being in excess on the ...
... English offences , so that if their total be reduced to that extent , for the purpose of com- parison , there would be 268,000 to deduct from it , which , added to the 62,000 culprits already indicated as being in excess on the ...
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... English show such a marked excess . On one point , however , England attains , contrarily to the generally received opinion on the matter on the Continent , a decided superiority over France . Suicides are absolutely three times more ...
... English show such a marked excess . On one point , however , England attains , contrarily to the generally received opinion on the matter on the Continent , a decided superiority over France . Suicides are absolutely three times more ...
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Page 164 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 163 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 505 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 517 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say : " Grieve not, my child ; chase all thy fears away...
Page 419 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Page 239 - ... with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 415 - There is a wonderful insight in Heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give it credit only for depicting the merest surface, it actually brings out the secret character with a truth that no painter would ever venture upon, even could he detect it.
Page 517 - The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear Original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and, of course, the first on which I open my eyes in the morning.
Page 415 - As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest...
Page 225 - MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...