Mrs. Stephens' Illustrated New Monthly, Volume 1Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, 1856 |
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Page 285 - So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 285 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin, Ay, there, look grim as hell ! Des.
Page 100 - Pray now, buy some : I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders
Page 268 - This man is a suspicious character," he exclaimed. "In the first place, he has the audacity to fear war; in the next place, he sat from seven o'clock until half-past nine, two whole hours and a half, without opening his lips; and finally, he was impious enough to give a public toast to a certain Master Slimak, who is probably quite as suspicious a character as himself.
Page 100 - Pray you now, buy it. CLO. Come on, lay it by: and let's first see more ballads ; we 'll buy the other things anon. AUT. Here 's another ballad, Of a fish, that appeared upon the coast on Wednesday the fourscore of April, forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids...
Page 126 - And now we hear the fifes and drums of her majesty's grenadiers. They pass on the other side ; and a crowd of idlers, their hearts jumping to the music, their eyes dazzled, and their feelings perverted, hang about the march, and catch the infection — the love of glory ! And true wisdom thinks of the world's age, and sighs at its slow advance in all that really dignifies man, the truest dignity being the truest love for his fellow. And then hope and a faith in human progress contemplate the pageant,...
Page 128 - But is there not heroism of a grander mould ? — The heroism of forbearance ? Is not the humanity that refuses to strike, a nobler virtue than the late pity born of violence? Pretty is it to see the victor with salve and lint kneeling at his bloody trophy — a maimed and agonized fellow-man, — but surely it had been better to withhold the blow, than to have been first mischievous, to be afterwards humane. That nations, professing a belief in Christ, should couple glory with war, is monstrous...
Page 126 - Opinion have been busy at your plumes — you are not the feathered thing you were ; and then this little tube, the goosequill, has sent its silent shots into your huge anatomy ; and the corroding INK, even whilst you look at it, and think it shines so brightly, is eating with a tooth of iron into your sword...
Page 268 - Impossible!" ejaculated the fat, red-faced gentleman. "It is not customary to give public toasts to such personages." "But I don't know what the custom is here." "If you wished to give a toast, why did you not drink to constitutional liberty, to the upper and lower Danube armies, or to freedom of the press, and such toasts?
Page 262 - Rolling like holy waves, Over the lowly graves, Floating up, prayer-fraught, into the sky, Solemn the lesson your lightest notes teach ; Stern is the preaching your iron tongues preach; Ringing in life from the bud to the bloom, Ringing the dead to their rest in the tomb. Peal out evermore — Peal as ye pealed of yore, Brave old bells, on each Sabbath day, In sunshine and gladness, Through clouds and through sadness, Bridal and burial have passed away.