The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, المجلد 4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... soon after he was crowned as possible , the masons , the carpenters , and various artificers , toiled with incredible labour by day and by torch - light , under the sultry sun of the sum- mer , and in all the severity of a polar winter ...
... soon after he was crowned as possible , the masons , the carpenters , and various artificers , toiled with incredible labour by day and by torch - light , under the sultry sun of the sum- mer , and in all the severity of a polar winter ...
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... soon as Madame Chevalier was informed of the demise of her imperial patron , she pre- pared , under the protection of her brother , a dancer , for flight , with a booty of nearly a million of rubles . A police officer was sent to ...
... soon as Madame Chevalier was informed of the demise of her imperial patron , she pre- pared , under the protection of her brother , a dancer , for flight , with a booty of nearly a million of rubles . A police officer was sent to ...
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... soon became passionately fond of her ; princes and kings , it has been said , make rapid strides in love ; the Countess fascinated by royal attentions , irritated by some real or imaginary neglect on the part of her hus- band , forgot ...
... soon became passionately fond of her ; princes and kings , it has been said , make rapid strides in love ; the Countess fascinated by royal attentions , irritated by some real or imaginary neglect on the part of her hus- band , forgot ...
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... soon offered of puting her scheme into exe- cution , and in her own way . A public entertainment , with a grand masquerade , be- ing announced to be given by a prince of the blood ; a few louis d'ors to his valet , enabled the lady to ...
... soon offered of puting her scheme into exe- cution , and in her own way . A public entertainment , with a grand masquerade , be- ing announced to be given by a prince of the blood ; a few louis d'ors to his valet , enabled the lady to ...
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... soon caught her eye , HE WAS THE GHOST OF DEPARTED JOY . Having seated himself near where she sat , the countess soon contrived to enter into conversation with him , in that kind of audible whisper , which , on such occasions , is the ...
... soon caught her eye , HE WAS THE GHOST OF DEPARTED JOY . Having seated himself near where she sat , the countess soon contrived to enter into conversation with him , in that kind of audible whisper , which , on such occasions , is the ...
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الصفحة 168 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
الصفحة 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
الصفحة 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
الصفحة 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
الصفحة 168 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
الصفحة 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
الصفحة 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
الصفحة 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
الصفحة 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
الصفحة 166 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.