New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 80. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1847 |
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... traveller . The presence of a great mind has upon us the same effect as the view of the loftiest prodigies of nature . In both cases we become instinct with the greatness of surrounding objects . Our exaltation is commensurate with our ...
... traveller . The presence of a great mind has upon us the same effect as the view of the loftiest prodigies of nature . In both cases we become instinct with the greatness of surrounding objects . Our exaltation is commensurate with our ...
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... travellers to Heaven and Hell . Soldiers and priests , in modern times , alternately govern the world . A peal of the organ is antiphonal to a flourish of trumpets . To an age of brawling and blustering , a period of fasting and psalm ...
... travellers to Heaven and Hell . Soldiers and priests , in modern times , alternately govern the world . A peal of the organ is antiphonal to a flourish of trumpets . To an age of brawling and blustering , a period of fasting and psalm ...
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... travelling through . But the Purgatory , and still more the Paradise of Dante are terra in- cognita to most of his readers , strange to say , to most of his warmest eulogists . They sink deep into the circles of Hell till they stick ...
... travelling through . But the Purgatory , and still more the Paradise of Dante are terra in- cognita to most of his readers , strange to say , to most of his warmest eulogists . They sink deep into the circles of Hell till they stick ...
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... travelling and couriering altogether , I shan't want you any more . Here's twenty frongs for your wages since I hired you three days ago , and now you may take yourself off as fast as you please ! " This was sufficiently cavalier ...
... travelling and couriering altogether , I shan't want you any more . Here's twenty frongs for your wages since I hired you three days ago , and now you may take yourself off as fast as you please ! " This was sufficiently cavalier ...
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... travellers - from whom he should be sure soon of something likely to suit me . " A cook , " he remarked , " is a public character , even in a cabaret ; how much more so in the first hotel on the great highway from Paris to Madrid and ...
... travellers - from whom he should be sure soon of something likely to suit me . " A cook , " he remarked , " is a public character , even in a cabaret ; how much more so in the first hotel on the great highway from Paris to Madrid and ...
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Page 479 - ... eye as immediately returned to contemplate the awful destruction that threatened in one short hour to close the world, and all its hopes and joys and sorrows, upon us for ever. In this our deep distress we called upon the Lord, and He heard our voices out of His temple, and our cry came before Him...
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