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... Beauty , 182 Brighton Picture Gallery , 201 Brighton and its Patrons , 265 Bankerania , 373 Court and Fashionable , 4 , 44 , 84 , 84 , 125 , 167 , 205 Caps , 26 Cossack Soldiers , 29 Complaint of the Dying Year , 360 Charlotte Charke ...
... Beauty , 182 Brighton Picture Gallery , 201 Brighton and its Patrons , 265 Bankerania , 373 Court and Fashionable , 4 , 44 , 84 , 84 , 125 , 167 , 205 Caps , 26 Cossack Soldiers , 29 Complaint of the Dying Year , 360 Charlotte Charke ...
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... the whole of the winter season . Our Picture Gallery was often the resort of rank , elegance , and beauty , during the last week . VOL . II . C Tuppen's and Lucombe's Libraries continue to be the daily and THE BRIGHTON GLEANER . 9.
... the whole of the winter season . Our Picture Gallery was often the resort of rank , elegance , and beauty , during the last week . VOL . II . C Tuppen's and Lucombe's Libraries continue to be the daily and THE BRIGHTON GLEANER . 9.
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... beauty of which are an ornament to the Steyne , and not to be surpassed by any structure , devoted to a similar purpose , in any watering place in the United Kingdom . The library of Donaldson , jun . is divided from the above by St ...
... beauty of which are an ornament to the Steyne , and not to be surpassed by any structure , devoted to a similar purpose , in any watering place in the United Kingdom . The library of Donaldson , jun . is divided from the above by St ...
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... beauty of our language . The weightier passages in the tragedy , Mr. Hamblin was successful in , but he was by far too deliberate and gloomy in his utterance of the text generally . Unlike Macready , the speech which follows the ...
... beauty of our language . The weightier passages in the tragedy , Mr. Hamblin was successful in , but he was by far too deliberate and gloomy in his utterance of the text generally . Unlike Macready , the speech which follows the ...
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... beauty ; and , lastly , under the promise of marriage , he induced her to quit the benevolent family by whom she had been fostered , and commit her future destiny to a man of whom she knew next to nothing . The fatal source of the ...
... beauty ; and , lastly , under the promise of marriage , he induced her to quit the benevolent family by whom she had been fostered , and commit her future destiny to a man of whom she knew next to nothing . The fatal source of the ...
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Page 367 - But oh ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to...
Page 385 - Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, LORD, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Page 453 - CORONACH He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing From the raindrops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory.
Page 91 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Page 367 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 93 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me. had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a shameful length ; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face.
Page 375 - Or midst the chase, on every plain, The tender thought on thee shall dwell : Each lonely scene shall thee restore ; For thee the tear be duly shed ; Beloved, till life can charm no more ; And mourn'd, till Pity's self be dead.
Page 94 - ... figure in it, that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself, insomuch that I put my own face out of countenance. The poor gentleman was so sensible of the ridicule, that I found he was ashamed of what he had done ; on the other side, I found that I myself had no great reason to triumph, for as I went to touch my forehead, I missed the place, and clapped my finger upon my upper lip. Besides, as my nose was...
Page 95 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.
Page 76 - Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.