Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1856 |
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... remained to do . Not more than a dozen couples were left , and he was working his way as well as he could through them , when , to his infinite surprise , a Spanish dame , exactly resembling his partner , offered him her hand . As he ...
... remained to do . Not more than a dozen couples were left , and he was working his way as well as he could through them , when , to his infinite surprise , a Spanish dame , exactly resembling his partner , offered him her hand . As he ...
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... remained silent . has " Thee hast done business for a long time with our house , Friend Gray- steel , " resumed Mr. Soaper , " and much - very much — of thy paper passed through our hands . I thought thee an honest man , but now I find ...
... remained silent . has " Thee hast done business for a long time with our house , Friend Gray- steel , " resumed Mr. Soaper , " and much - very much — of thy paper passed through our hands . I thought thee an honest man , but now I find ...
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... remained , with folded arms , leaning against a wall , interested only in the movements of the person by whom he had been outraged . While there he stood , sufficiently near to hear what was said , a few words passed between the two ...
... remained , with folded arms , leaning against a wall , interested only in the movements of the person by whom he had been outraged . While there he stood , sufficiently near to hear what was said , a few words passed between the two ...
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... remained without ; Mahmûd and our servants were in the house where we had left our luggage and arms . Shortly after we had entered Mr. Barnett was some yards in front of me , writing , and I stood , with my arms folded and my back ...
... remained without ; Mahmûd and our servants were in the house where we had left our luggage and arms . Shortly after we had entered Mr. Barnett was some yards in front of me , writing , and I stood , with my arms folded and my back ...
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... remained to him , Awaiting his last breath , to overwhelm All trace of him and his , ere they retired And left a fair untrodden way to greet The footsteps of a monarch yet unborn . One grey cloud covered all the brooding sky , Save ...
... remained to him , Awaiting his last breath , to overwhelm All trace of him and his , ere they retired And left a fair untrodden way to greet The footsteps of a monarch yet unborn . One grey cloud covered all the brooding sky , Save ...
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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...
Page 637 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood...
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...