The Monthly ReviewHurst, Robinson, 1831 |
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... interest , and engage the feelings , of the tender sex . But that system is all changed : a new power has sprung up dark eyes , and shining ringlets , have had their reign ; and we have now come to that stage in our advance to ...
... interest , and engage the feelings , of the tender sex . But that system is all changed : a new power has sprung up dark eyes , and shining ringlets , have had their reign ; and we have now come to that stage in our advance to ...
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... interest- ing tale . The fountain was often resorted to by Fleurette , who , after the primitive fashion of handmaids , carried a picturesque pitcher in her lily - white hand : and the gods so ordained it , that when the damsel passed ...
... interest- ing tale . The fountain was often resorted to by Fleurette , who , after the primitive fashion of handmaids , carried a picturesque pitcher in her lily - white hand : and the gods so ordained it , that when the damsel passed ...
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... interest so strongly . Miss Phillips is said to have considered herself the greatest actress that had ever ap- peared , and she had the opinion to herself . Her niece has been gene- rally considered unrivalled in her particular walk ...
... interest so strongly . Miss Phillips is said to have considered herself the greatest actress that had ever ap- peared , and she had the opinion to herself . Her niece has been gene- rally considered unrivalled in her particular walk ...
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... interest for which that history is alone worth remembering . We mean her connection with the Duke of Clarence . Having thus exhibited to our view , as it were , this land of promise , to attain which , we must say , we performed no very ...
... interest for which that history is alone worth remembering . We mean her connection with the Duke of Clarence . Having thus exhibited to our view , as it were , this land of promise , to attain which , we must say , we performed no very ...
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... interest : however , though not a moral play , it was written evidently , I said , by a man of talent ; and , as a benefit piece , preferable to an old one . Mrs. Jordan , here , in confidence , informed me that the Duke had taken the ...
... interest : however , though not a moral play , it was written evidently , I said , by a man of talent ; and , as a benefit piece , preferable to an old one . Mrs. Jordan , here , in confidence , informed me that the Duke had taken the ...
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Page 15 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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Page 426 - Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power ; late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy : early reformations are made in cool blood ; late reformations are made under a state of inflammation.
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Page 14 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 590 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.