Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen18William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1851 |
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... asked Ludovicko . " Yes , " said the domestic , " but he forgets . " " Who did you say was dead ? " asked the old man . " Is everybody to die and leave me here ? " " No , " said Jean ; " here is your nephew , Mr. Ludovicko , come to see ...
... asked Ludovicko . " Yes , " said the domestic , " but he forgets . " " Who did you say was dead ? " asked the old man . " Is everybody to die and leave me here ? " " No , " said Jean ; " here is your nephew , Mr. Ludovicko , come to see ...
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... asked Ludovicko , sternly . " Well , bless me ! what a fuss you are making ! " Well , it is of no consequence - none whatever ; the marriage was not regular , the father is dead , and a brother has come in for the whole property ; and ...
... asked Ludovicko , sternly . " Well , bless me ! what a fuss you are making ! " Well , it is of no consequence - none whatever ; the marriage was not regular , the father is dead , and a brother has come in for the whole property ; and ...
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... asked Miss Lucretia Dickson , in reply . " When I was walking the other day with my dear little poodle , Rosebud , the poor little thing became frightened all over at the ap- pearance of the horrid animal ; and Miss , instead of pitying ...
... asked Miss Lucretia Dickson , in reply . " When I was walking the other day with my dear little poodle , Rosebud , the poor little thing became frightened all over at the ap- pearance of the horrid animal ; and Miss , instead of pitying ...
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... asked , or how could she acquire the innocence , simplicity , and other virtues ascribed to her ? The soil , we admit , was most uncongenial for such products , but there they were ; and our narrative has to do with appearances and ...
... asked , or how could she acquire the innocence , simplicity , and other virtues ascribed to her ? The soil , we admit , was most uncongenial for such products , but there they were ; and our narrative has to do with appearances and ...
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... asked Mori- son , in a sudden burst of passion . " You ! " said the imperturbable Rankin . " Over me ? ” replied the angry youth . " I defy you , and , in proof , I'll fight you this very moment ! Don't keep me back , Ogle , I want to ...
... asked Mori- son , in a sudden burst of passion . " You ! " said the imperturbable Rankin . " Over me ? ” replied the angry youth . " I defy you , and , in proof , I'll fight you this very moment ! Don't keep me back , Ogle , I want to ...
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Página 31 - Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache : they are not carved with their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as their minds were wholly bent upon the world, the selfsame way they seem to turn their faces.
Página 28 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is 'my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Página 32 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Página 31 - Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.
Página 32 - Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Página 27 - To work thy discovery ; yet am now persuaded It would beget such violent effects As would damn us both. I would not for ten millions I had beheld thee : therefore use all means I never may have knowledge of thy name ; Enjoy thy lust still, and a wretched life, On that condition. — And for thee...
Página 32 - Not a whit: What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges, You may open them both ways: any way, for Heaven sake, So I were out of your whispering.
Página 354 - The king was not allowed so much as to walk abroad on Sundays : and if at any time there had been any gaiety at court, such as dancing or playing at cards, he was severely reproved for it.
Página 408 - With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 94 - ... which raiseth your thoughts unto old things and consideration of times before you, when even living men were antiquities ; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.