The North American Miscellany, 2. köideAlbert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ; so you draw your glove a little higher , with a freezing smile , and re- pressing the bitter tears to ...
... persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ; so you draw your glove a little higher , with a freezing smile , and re- pressing the bitter tears to ...
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... persons came back to life the moment the funeral ceremonies were about to com- mence ; thirteen recovered by the tender care and attention of their families ; seven from the fall of the coffins : nine from wounds inflicted by the needle ...
... persons came back to life the moment the funeral ceremonies were about to com- mence ; thirteen recovered by the tender care and attention of their families ; seven from the fall of the coffins : nine from wounds inflicted by the needle ...
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... persons were to be admitted . The old man was soon ready to give up the prem- ises , but Madame , a demure - looking grisette , had no notion of appearing in deshabille be- fore so many strangers , and kept us waiting some time ...
... persons were to be admitted . The old man was soon ready to give up the prem- ises , but Madame , a demure - looking grisette , had no notion of appearing in deshabille be- fore so many strangers , and kept us waiting some time ...
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... persons , the condemned , and two police officers . The troops opened out , and the men were landed at the foot of the plat- form . It may be well to describe the general appearance of the scaffold . of his gun - barrels , He was ...
... persons , the condemned , and two police officers . The troops opened out , and the men were landed at the foot of the plat- form . It may be well to describe the general appearance of the scaffold . of his gun - barrels , He was ...
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... persons as the case may be . Both the run and the hill are bordered by fir - trees on each side , and on such evening parties are illuminated with Chinese lamps placed between the branches of the trees . Fancy yourself on the top of the ...
... persons as the case may be . Both the run and the hill are bordered by fir - trees on each side , and on such evening parties are illuminated with Chinese lamps placed between the branches of the trees . Fancy yourself on the top of the ...
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Page 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Page 396 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 254 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Page 3 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 1 - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
Page 518 - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Page 1 - Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Page 130 - There's not a flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again: I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die.
Page 2 - ... first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.
Page 96 - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.