The St. Peterburg English Review, Volume 3S. Warrand 1842 |
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... honour ? Would it not have been far better for you to have gone to sleep quietly in bed , instead of nodding uneasily in your chair ? See what you have done . Just as I opened the door , you gave a most vigorous jerk forwards , which ...
... honour ? Would it not have been far better for you to have gone to sleep quietly in bed , instead of nodding uneasily in your chair ? See what you have done . Just as I opened the door , you gave a most vigorous jerk forwards , which ...
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... honour of being the preux chevalier coming in to rescue you in the hour of danger , and earning in good earnest the appellation of My brave Llewellyn . ' But I must insist upon it , that good Aunt Winifred does not seduce you into any ...
... honour of being the preux chevalier coming in to rescue you in the hour of danger , and earning in good earnest the appellation of My brave Llewellyn . ' But I must insist upon it , that good Aunt Winifred does not seduce you into any ...
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... honoured , it appears , with all manner of royal and courtly observance ; ( ' ) ( ' ) ' Among the incidents connected with this work , I must not omit to notice the splendid divertissements , founded upon it , which were acted at the ...
... honoured , it appears , with all manner of royal and courtly observance ; ( ' ) ( ' ) ' Among the incidents connected with this work , I must not omit to notice the splendid divertissements , founded upon it , which were acted at the ...
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... honour . Just look at the writing- the real copybook running - hand- not at uncrossed - not an i undotted not an illegitimate flourish of a letter , but each j and g and y turning up its VOL . JII . - 7 - tail like the pug dogs , after ...
... honour . Just look at the writing- the real copybook running - hand- not at uncrossed - not an i undotted not an illegitimate flourish of a letter , but each j and g and y turning up its VOL . JII . - 7 - tail like the pug dogs , after ...
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... honoured pre- cedents . Let us specify some other articles . Nothing is new under the sun , saith Salomon , as our English wisest of man- kind should have taught us to call him a female corse , tioned above , was found laid out in ...
... honoured pre- cedents . Let us specify some other articles . Nothing is new under the sun , saith Salomon , as our English wisest of man- kind should have taught us to call him a female corse , tioned above , was found laid out in ...
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Page 83 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 231 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Page 92 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Page 118 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 174 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 30 - But, gracious God, how well dost Thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe Thee thus concealed, And search no farther than Thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom Thou hast promised never to forsake...
Page 37 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Page 27 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Page 373 - Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul...
Page 27 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar...