The St. Peterburg English Review, Том 3S. Warrand 1842 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 30.
Страница 26
... living poets , be they who they may . To take an instance at random from a species of composition not very favourable to imagination- satire . Set down the character of Sporus , with all the wonderful play of fancy which is scattered ...
... living poets , be they who they may . To take an instance at random from a species of composition not very favourable to imagination- satire . Set down the character of Sporus , with all the wonderful play of fancy which is scattered ...
Страница 50
... living , breath- ing , flesh and blood , skin and bone individual ! Why , there are dozens , scores , hundreds of her , Ex - Pupils , now grown women , who will instantly recognise their old Governess in the form with which , mixing up ...
... living , breath- ing , flesh and blood , skin and bone individual ! Why , there are dozens , scores , hundreds of her , Ex - Pupils , now grown women , who will instantly recognise their old Governess in the form with which , mixing up ...
Страница 78
... living , except to utter flagitiousness or frivolities , platitudes or semi - articulate nonsense ! Yet so it is ! their very ashes are now become precious as gold dust , though their entire bodies , at any period whatever , before they ...
... living , except to utter flagitiousness or frivolities , platitudes or semi - articulate nonsense ! Yet so it is ! their very ashes are now become precious as gold dust , though their entire bodies , at any period whatever , before they ...
Страница 85
... living moveable bal- last added much to her speed in the meantime the breeze increased , and we were going six or seven knots through the water , and overhauling the chase fast . Our life at this period was such a continued scene of ...
... living moveable bal- last added much to her speed in the meantime the breeze increased , and we were going six or seven knots through the water , and overhauling the chase fast . Our life at this period was such a continued scene of ...
Страница 100
... living Telegraph , he never failed in conveying his intelligence , but signalled it with such distinctness , that his meaning was visible to the dullest ca- pacity . H - And your own attempts in the line , sir ? » Utter failures . Often ...
... living Telegraph , he never failed in conveying his intelligence , but signalled it with such distinctness , that his meaning was visible to the dullest ca- pacity . H - And your own attempts in the line , sir ? » Utter failures . Often ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
accused Affghans appeared arms arsenic beautiful BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE Brives Brutus Cabul called camels Centaur character charge Chief collier corregidor Corrèze court Crusoe Dawdley dear death door Empecinado English Englishman evidence eyes fancy favour fear feeling Fitz-Boodle French Ghost give Glandier hand hate head heard Heraut honour horse hour Hyderabad imagination improvements India Inkpen Jemmy Jews jury Khan Khyva kraal Kurd labour Lady look Lord Maimonides Marie Lafarge means ment miles mind Miss Crane Miss Ruth morning nature never night once Oxus party passed perhaps person poet poor prisoner racter reader Reccesuinth remarkable road Robinson Crusoe round Russian sent Sephardim Shylock Sisebut six months spirit thing thought tion took town truth Turcomans turn Warwickshire whole wife wild words young
Популярни откъси
Страница 83 - 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.
Страница 231 - 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 92 - 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 118 - 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 174 - 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 30 - But, gracious God, how well dost Thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe Thee thus concealed, And search no farther than Thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom Thou hast promised never to forsake...
Страница 37 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Страница 27 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Страница 373 - Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul...
Страница 27 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar...