New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1824 |
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... reader with the original use and forma- tion of Spanish surnames . The Spaniards , like the Greeks , showed their imme- diate descent by a patronymic , ending in ex . We do not recollect any exception to this but Garcia , which ...
... reader with the original use and forma- tion of Spanish surnames . The Spaniards , like the Greeks , showed their imme- diate descent by a patronymic , ending in ex . We do not recollect any exception to this but Garcia , which ...
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... reader , we trust , will thank us for transcribing the beautiful passage where Mr. Southey sketches the history of the third Abdoulrahman . ( Introduction to the Chronicle of the Cid , p . xxviii . ) " His history is like a tale of ...
... reader , we trust , will thank us for transcribing the beautiful passage where Mr. Southey sketches the history of the third Abdoulrahman . ( Introduction to the Chronicle of the Cid , p . xxviii . ) " His history is like a tale of ...
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... reader , he will feel disposed to look upon the whole as a fable , when he learns the motive assigned by the early Spanish histo- rians . They say that King Sancho , being obliged to leave his favourite horse when he was to set off upon ...
... reader , he will feel disposed to look upon the whole as a fable , when he learns the motive assigned by the early Spanish histo- rians . They say that King Sancho , being obliged to leave his favourite horse when he was to set off upon ...
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... reader , we will now give him the conclusion of our story . The day for the trial of the queen being come , the lists for the com- bat were opened before the castle of Naxera , where she was kept a prisoner . It was feared by those who ...
... reader , we will now give him the conclusion of our story . The day for the trial of the queen being come , the lists for the com- bat were opened before the castle of Naxera , where she was kept a prisoner . It was feared by those who ...
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... readers , nothing more than a laughable , and somewhat loose tale , there is never for an instant lost sight of the metaphysical position which it is his object to establish . This is displayed in every illustration , however ludicrous ...
... readers , nothing more than a laughable , and somewhat loose tale , there is never for an instant lost sight of the metaphysical position which it is his object to establish . This is displayed in every illustration , however ludicrous ...
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Page 178 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
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Page 95 - Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still more that it should gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state.
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Page 420 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 94 - I once thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured or offensive, and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's.