The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Том 25

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R. Phillips, 1838
 

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Стр. 45 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round; The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath its...
Стр. 321 - His countenance is plain, but the expression so very animated, especially in speaking or singing, that it is far more interesting than the finest features could have rendered it.
Стр. 311 - As he went through Cold-Bath Fields he saw A solitary cell ; And the Devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint For improving his prisons in Hell. X. He saw a Turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade ; "Nimbly," quoth he, "do the fingers move If a man be but used to his trade.
Стр. 200 - Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; Afield I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should huswives do): Thee first I spied, and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune, shall our true love be.
Стр. 321 - Moore a scholar, I none ; he a musician and artist, I without knowledge of a note ; he a democrat, I an aristocrat — with many other points of difference ; besides his being an Irishman, I a Scotchman, and both tolerably national. Yet there is a point of resemblance, and a strong one. We are both good-humoured fellows, who rather seek to enjoy what is going forward than to maintain our dignity as Lions; and we have both seen the world too widely and too well not to contemn in our souls the imaginary...
Стр. 312 - He saw a certain minister (A minister to his mind) Go up into a certain House, With a majority behind. XV The Devil quoted Genesis Like a very learned clerk, How "Noah and his creeping things Went up into the Ark.
Стр. 311 - He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility ! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Стр. 200 - ... four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed, eat it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers...
Стр. 200 - A forward Miss in the Connoisseur, a series of essays published in 1764-6, thus adverts to other notions with respect to the day : ' Last Friday was Valentine's Day, and the night before, I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year 256 was out.
Стр. 201 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, . Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

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