Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1856 |
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... English battirent à plate couture 68,000 French , commanded by Philippe de Valois . The little electioneering tiff with our Transatlantic cousins was puffed up into enormous proportions by the same party . Mr. Soulé had treated the Duke ...
... English battirent à plate couture 68,000 French , commanded by Philippe de Valois . The little electioneering tiff with our Transatlantic cousins was puffed up into enormous proportions by the same party . Mr. Soulé had treated the Duke ...
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... English blood , who since the battle of Inkerman has never been able to answer any question pro- posed to him but by " Boom , pan , pan , cling , clang , krasch ! " Piedmont - the only free and constitutional state in Italy , the hope ...
... English blood , who since the battle of Inkerman has never been able to answer any question pro- posed to him but by " Boom , pan , pan , cling , clang , krasch ! " Piedmont - the only free and constitutional state in Italy , the hope ...
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... English to the field of battle as the greatest insult that can be offered to the empire , and they call upon France to revenge it by the destruction of the modern Carthage . To bring about this happy state of universal war , and to make ...
... English to the field of battle as the greatest insult that can be offered to the empire , and they call upon France to revenge it by the destruction of the modern Carthage . To bring about this happy state of universal war , and to make ...
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... English . " The course was crowded , the sun shone , and French officers were riding full gallop everywhere , and making their horses go through all the tricks of the manége . The steeple- chase ' course , avec huit obstacles , was ...
... English . " The course was crowded , the sun shone , and French officers were riding full gallop everywhere , and making their horses go through all the tricks of the manége . The steeple- chase ' course , avec huit obstacles , was ...
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... English , who are attacking the quarries in front of the Redan ; and an artilleryman , who comes up soon after , informs us that the English have taken the quarries with but little loss , and , if let , will take the Redan . But the ...
... English , who are attacking the quarries in front of the Redan ; and an artilleryman , who comes up soon after , informs us that the English have taken the quarries with but little loss , and , if let , will take the Redan . But the ...
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Page 78 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 579 - The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's. I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown; I sit upon the sands alone — The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.
Page 155 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Page 67 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal — the rich dates — yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the...
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Page 70 - No, indeed ! for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward the love, — I claim you still, for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more lives yet, Thro' worlds I shall traverse, not a few — Much is to learn and much to forget Ere the time be come for taking you.
Page 253 - I read, before my eyelids dropt their shade, 'The Legend of Good Women,' long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen clouds from raining, tho' my heart, Brimful of those wild tales, Charged both mine eyes with tears.
Page 67 - And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed; And now one after one seeks its lodging, as star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, - so blue and so far!
Page 318 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 257 - I TAKE unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age.* How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch of sickly melancholy or morbid drooping...