Bentley's Miscellany, Volumen26Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1849 |
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... carry our readers to the inner court of a Roman dwelling , such the resurrection of the lava - buried cities have lately ex- posed to curious modern eyes . It was open to the clear evening sky , towards which the fountain in its centre ...
... carry our readers to the inner court of a Roman dwelling , such the resurrection of the lava - buried cities have lately ex- posed to curious modern eyes . It was open to the clear evening sky , towards which the fountain in its centre ...
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... carried the white - haired priest who stood be- side the forum - at least his- " Stratonice could not finish the sentence , for a convulsive shudder came over her . But not a muscle quivered in the composed counte- nance of the aged ...
... carried the white - haired priest who stood be- side the forum - at least his- " Stratonice could not finish the sentence , for a convulsive shudder came over her . But not a muscle quivered in the composed counte- nance of the aged ...
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... carry in their hands vases and baskets of artificial flowers , which they strew over the ground as they advance towards the altar . Now they take their seats close to the choir - the organ peals out a low , deep , full volume of sound ...
... carry in their hands vases and baskets of artificial flowers , which they strew over the ground as they advance towards the altar . Now they take their seats close to the choir - the organ peals out a low , deep , full volume of sound ...
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... carry us at a dashing pace up to the door of the chapel . Two or three old pen- sioners lingered outside the porch , huddled up , listening to the organ , and , now and then , peering into the chapel as the door noise- lessly opened to ...
... carry us at a dashing pace up to the door of the chapel . Two or three old pen- sioners lingered outside the porch , huddled up , listening to the organ , and , now and then , peering into the chapel as the door noise- lessly opened to ...
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... carried on ever since , and if you have sufficient credulity , and an easy way of gulping local fabrications , or , as Swift says , believing " the thing that is not , " you may imagine yourself standing here surrounded by associations ...
... carried on ever since , and if you have sufficient credulity , and an easy way of gulping local fabrications , or , as Swift says , believing " the thing that is not , " you may imagine yourself standing here surrounded by associations ...
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Página 87 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 339 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Página 599 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 89 - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Página 398 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 604 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the...
Página 644 - Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
Página 623 - I defy thee, I, and thy stable of hobby-horses. I pay for my ground, as well as thou dost: an...
Página 93 - I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
Página 519 - I demand of your lordship, the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your lordship's most obedient, and most obliged humble servant, JON.