New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. kötetThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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23. oldal
... army , with shoulders of Herculean breadth and a waist of wasp - like dimensions ; his native Provence and the sun of Africa had given him a complexion the colour of mahogany , and black as a coal were his spade - shaped beard and ...
... army , with shoulders of Herculean breadth and a waist of wasp - like dimensions ; his native Provence and the sun of Africa had given him a complexion the colour of mahogany , and black as a coal were his spade - shaped beard and ...
27. oldal
... army are encamped are not quite so . level as a bowling - green , and before the carriage had proceeded very far from the high road it was suggested by one of the party - need I say , by Mr. Sawkins ? -that it would , perhaps , be ...
... army are encamped are not quite so . level as a bowling - green , and before the carriage had proceeded very far from the high road it was suggested by one of the party - need I say , by Mr. Sawkins ? -that it would , perhaps , be ...
45. oldal
... . They run in crowds to have a sight of us , and grin and chatter like so many monkeys . They get the interpreters to ask if all our army is composed of such giants , and the bearskins are a continued More Stray Letters from the East . 45.
... . They run in crowds to have a sight of us , and grin and chatter like so many monkeys . They get the interpreters to ask if all our army is composed of such giants , and the bearskins are a continued More Stray Letters from the East . 45.
50. oldal
... army is at stake , and that must be upheld , cost any amount of money or false swearing that it will , so we are pretty easy . Weatherveer and Gum and a few more of our sober ones say the Court - Martial ought to have been on Greer ...
... army is at stake , and that must be upheld , cost any amount of money or false swearing that it will , so we are pretty easy . Weatherveer and Gum and a few more of our sober ones say the Court - Martial ought to have been on Greer ...
52. oldal
... army of drowned donkeys . So we set to , when the water's gone a little , and build up huge fires , and each takes his turn at roasting , turning him- self slowly round , like meat at the spit . By these means we are dried in time , but ...
... army of drowned donkeys . So we set to , when the water's gone a little , and build up huge fires , and each takes his turn at roasting , turning him- self slowly round , like meat at the spit . By these means we are dried in time , but ...
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141. oldal - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
191. oldal - There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them...
291. oldal - Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! HIP.
126. oldal - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
187. oldal - ... bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His...
290. oldal - With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine, when every room Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy, I have retired me to a wasteful cock, And set mine eyes at flow.
194. oldal - Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan ; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.
313. oldal - When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end...
474. oldal - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
485. oldal - Temper the soot within this vase of oil, And let the little tripod aid thy toil. On this, methinks, I see the walking crew, At thy request, support the miry shoe ; The foot grows black that was with dirt embrown'd, And in thy pocket gingling halfpence sound.