The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, Том 3Hauer and Company, 1842 |
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... pictures , and the grotesquely carved cornices assumed in my eyes figures and appearances that were anything but agreeable . I got up , and walked about the room , and opened a window . This , except that it let in a draught of fresh ...
... pictures , and the grotesquely carved cornices assumed in my eyes figures and appearances that were anything but agreeable . I got up , and walked about the room , and opened a window . This , except that it let in a draught of fresh ...
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... picture ; but , be it observed , it belongs , not to the Frenchman , but to Lucretius : - ' Extra flammantia monia mundi : ' Which Moore has borrowed from one or both : — ' As far As the universe spreads her flaming wall . ' The second ...
... picture ; but , be it observed , it belongs , not to the Frenchman , but to Lucretius : - ' Extra flammantia monia mundi : ' Which Moore has borrowed from one or both : — ' As far As the universe spreads her flaming wall . ' The second ...
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... pictures , and clinging closely to the shows of things , ' the image suggested is that of the gradual fall , leaf by leaf , com- pared with the dropping of the melancholy ghosts , one by one , into the inevitable bark : - Come d'autunno ...
... pictures , and clinging closely to the shows of things , ' the image suggested is that of the gradual fall , leaf by leaf , com- pared with the dropping of the melancholy ghosts , one by one , into the inevitable bark : - Come d'autunno ...
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... pictures , and capital cellar of wines ! However , off flew our countrymen and country women , like migrating swallows , but at the wrong time of year ; or rather like shoals of salmon , striving up , up , up against the stream , except ...
... pictures , and capital cellar of wines ! However , off flew our countrymen and country women , like migrating swallows , but at the wrong time of year ; or rather like shoals of salmon , striving up , up , up against the stream , except ...
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... picture of health . Why didn't she think of some- thing comforting for his inside instead of embellishing his out something as would agree , in lieu of filagree , with his case . A little good hot brandy - and - water with a grate of ...
... picture of health . Why didn't she think of some- thing comforting for his inside instead of embellishing his out something as would agree , in lieu of filagree , with his case . A little good hot brandy - and - water with a grate of ...
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Страница 371 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Страница 172 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Страница 229 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Страница 116 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Страница 359 - I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Страница 90 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.— I'll talk to you, lady, but not beat you.
Страница 358 - Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name "Crusoe," and so my companions always called me.
Страница 20 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Страница 127 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Страница 81 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.