The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1839 - English literature |
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... hour , certain that Louis would incite the slaves on the estate to revolt , and that instead of a joyful anniversary as here- tofore , " The Planter's Birthday " would be a day of blood . It had not been long before the period of which ...
... hour , certain that Louis would incite the slaves on the estate to revolt , and that instead of a joyful anniversary as here- tofore , " The Planter's Birthday " would be a day of blood . It had not been long before the period of which ...
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... hour , pacing , and struck across the open plain , towards a small grove of tamarind - trees , in which it was no uncommon thing for idle slaves to conceal themselves , if they could , during the day , contriving , if pos- sible , to ...
... hour , pacing , and struck across the open plain , towards a small grove of tamarind - trees , in which it was no uncommon thing for idle slaves to conceal themselves , if they could , during the day , contriving , if pos- sible , to ...
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... - let him be satisfied by knowing that , that year's celebration of the " PLANTER'S BIRTHDAY " is remembered in the island to this hour . ISAAC MOSS ; A STORY FOR SOME CHRISTIANS . SKETCHES 14 The Planter's Birthday .
... - let him be satisfied by knowing that , that year's celebration of the " PLANTER'S BIRTHDAY " is remembered in the island to this hour . ISAAC MOSS ; A STORY FOR SOME CHRISTIANS . SKETCHES 14 The Planter's Birthday .
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... hour afterwards , the carriage which we had ordered to be in readiness , drove up to the door . We had heard a good deal of the Bora , or furious wind , which at uncertain periods sweeps over this country ; and against which , when it ...
... hour afterwards , the carriage which we had ordered to be in readiness , drove up to the door . We had heard a good deal of the Bora , or furious wind , which at uncertain periods sweeps over this country ; and against which , when it ...
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... hour , a good many waggons met us , all of them , as it seemed , winding their way to Trieste ; but the numbers were as nothing when compared with the perfect throng , which the return of daylight appeared to have set in motion . Long ...
... hour , a good many waggons met us , all of them , as it seemed , winding their way to Trieste ; but the numbers were as nothing when compared with the perfect throng , which the return of daylight appeared to have set in motion . Long ...
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Page 187 - Noi leggevamo un giorno per diletto di Lancilotto, come amor lo strinse; soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto. Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso: ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso esser baciato da cotanto amante, questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, la bocca mi baciò tutto tremante.
Page 516 - Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Page 155 - Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Page 272 - For the coronation, if a puppet-show could be worth a million, that is. The multitudes, balconies, guards, and processions, made Palace-yard the liveliest spectacle in the world: the hall was the most glorious. The blaze of lights, the richness and variety of habits, the ceremonial, the benches of peers and peeresses, frequent and full, was as awful as a pageant can be; and yet for the king's sake and my own, I never wish to see another ; nor am impatient to have my lord Effingham's promise fulfilled.
Page 373 - ... spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds — or like the stream That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet, ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods that part for ever.
Page 373 - A breath, a touch like this hath shaken ; And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin, And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day, And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, or like the stream That smiling left the mountain's brow.
Page 373 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Page 454 - They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and bitterns...
Page 120 - TO MY NOSE KNOWS he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joys Which my nose knows? 0 Nose, I am as proud of thee As any mountain of its snows, 1 gaze on thee, and feel that pride A Roman knows ! Albert A.
Page vi - ... engagement which I am about to contract, I have not come to this decision without mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong assurance that, with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at once secure my domestic felicity, and serve the interests of my country. " I have thought fit to make this resolution known to you at the earliest period, in order that you may be fully apprised of a matter so highly important to me and to my kingdom, and which I persuade myself will be most acceptable...