New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen119E. W. Allen, 1860 |
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... took the prisoner two and a half years to execute them . Their price is in no proportion to their artistic value . Each leisure hour's work is only estimated at 1 to 4 centimes ; hence , during his six hours of liberty a prisoner can ...
... took the prisoner two and a half years to execute them . Their price is in no proportion to their artistic value . Each leisure hour's work is only estimated at 1 to 4 centimes ; hence , during his six hours of liberty a prisoner can ...
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... took his pipe out of his lips to correct me with more dignity . " Her title , my dear Simon , is the Marchioness St. Julian . " " Is that an English peerage , Grand ? " " Hum ! What ! Oh yes , of course ! owl ? " What else should it be ...
... took his pipe out of his lips to correct me with more dignity . " Her title , my dear Simon , is the Marchioness St. Julian . " " Is that an English peerage , Grand ? " " Hum ! What ! Oh yes , of course ! owl ? " What else should it be ...
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... took a dainty hookah with an amber mouthpiece for her own use ( divine she did look , too , leaning in her rose fauteuil , with that hookah between her ruby lips ! ) ; and the smoke , and the cognac , and the smiles , unloosed our ...
... took a dainty hookah with an amber mouthpiece for her own use ( divine she did look , too , leaning in her rose fauteuil , with that hookah between her ruby lips ! ) ; and the smoke , and the cognac , and the smiles , unloosed our ...
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... took place : When the horses are put to in the baggage waggons , the wives , children , and girls fall on them like a flock of crows . The girl who first enters the waggon takes the first place ; then comes the boy , with his master's ...
... took place : When the horses are put to in the baggage waggons , the wives , children , and girls fall on them like a flock of crows . The girl who first enters the waggon takes the first place ; then comes the boy , with his master's ...
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... took charge of all the plunder on the march . It was his duty to keep them from straggling and spreading over the villages like " gipsies or Tartars . " In return for this protection , the followers were called upon to cover the rear of ...
... took charge of all the plunder on the march . It was his duty to keep them from straggling and spreading over the villages like " gipsies or Tartars . " In return for this protection , the followers were called upon to cover the rear of ...
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Página 39 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Página 158 - And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
Página 153 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Página 157 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme...
Página 74 - Ye woodlands all , awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds ! sweet Philomela , charm The listening shades, and teach the night his praise.
Página 310 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ; For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. And, as I watch the line of light, that plays Along the smooth wave tow'rd the burning west, I long to tread that golden path of rays, And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest.
Página 78 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Página 72 - 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...
Página 157 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 68 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.