The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., 4. köideTobias Merton (pseud) 1826 |
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... scarcely believe that there are frequent chap- ters in Rabelais , where , in the course of relating one of his happiest anecdotes , he gets sight of some miserable verbal pun . Away like a hunter he goes , chases the phantom from ...
... scarcely believe that there are frequent chap- ters in Rabelais , where , in the course of relating one of his happiest anecdotes , he gets sight of some miserable verbal pun . Away like a hunter he goes , chases the phantom from ...
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... scarcely quitted the room , when after several profound hems , a withered professor of author - slaying , holding Ari- stotle in one hand and Shakspeare in the other , thus communicated the result of his late cogitations . " Master ...
... scarcely quitted the room , when after several profound hems , a withered professor of author - slaying , holding Ari- stotle in one hand and Shakspeare in the other , thus communicated the result of his late cogitations . " Master ...
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... scarcely a British singing - bird that did not warble its strains among the branches of the trees , that rose along the footpaths leading to and from this temple ; and thither did the two Poets , one seventy- two , and the other ( then ) ...
... scarcely a British singing - bird that did not warble its strains among the branches of the trees , that rose along the footpaths leading to and from this temple ; and thither did the two Poets , one seventy- two , and the other ( then ) ...
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... Scarcely had I opened the outer door , when something uncom- monly like a bailiff , turned from behind it ! on the landing place two gentlemen of equally prepossessing appearance , did me the honour of catching me by my skirts ...
... Scarcely had I opened the outer door , when something uncom- monly like a bailiff , turned from behind it ! on the landing place two gentlemen of equally prepossessing appearance , did me the honour of catching me by my skirts ...
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... scarcely believe that in his empire grows all heal ; and why ? because it is hot and biting : but then it cures wounds ( Hercules , the pagan Samson , was cured by it ) ; and , by the power of sympathy , just as viper's flesh attracts ...
... scarcely believe that in his empire grows all heal ; and why ? because it is hot and biting : but then it cures wounds ( Hercules , the pagan Samson , was cured by it ) ; and , by the power of sympathy , just as viper's flesh attracts ...
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Page 201 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 235 - The bride kissed the goblet : the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, 'Now tread we a measure !
Page 114 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 115 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 245 - LET others seek for empty joys, At ball, or concert, rout, or play ; Whilst far from Fashion's idle noise, Her gilded domes, and trappings gay, I while the wintry eve away,— 'Twixt book and lute the hours divide ; And marvel how I e'er could stray From thee — my own Fire-side ! My own Fire-side ! Those simple words Can bid the sweetest dreams arise ; Awaken Feeling's tenderest chords, And fill with tears of joy...
Page 78 - Accompany the noonday nightingales ; And all the place is peopled with sweet airs ; The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers, And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Page 78 - To other lands, leave azure chasms of calm Over this isle, or weep themselves in dew, From which its fields and woods ever renew Their green and golden immortality.
Page 243 - We saw her mighty cable riven Like floating gossamer ! We saw her proud flag struck that morn, A star once o'er the seas, Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn, — And sadder things than these ! We saw her treasures cast away ; The rocks with pearls were sown...
Page 202 - THE WORLD'S WANDERERS. TELL me, thou star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight, In what cavern of the night Will thy pinions close now? Tell me, moon, thou pale and gray Pilgrim of heaven's homeless way, In what depth of night or day Seekest thou repose now? Weary wind, who wanderest Like the world's rejected guest, Hast thou still some secret nest On the tree or billow?
Page 79 - An envy of the isles, a pleasure-house Made sacred to his sister and his spouse. It scarce seems now a wreck of human art...