Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-mondeJ. Bell, 1826 |
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... pieces , it may be remarked that the terminating point is remarkably good : it comes like the impressive close of the ancient Greek epigram , one of the most elegant of all poetical compositions . The Suliote Mother fully illustrates ...
... pieces , it may be remarked that the terminating point is remarkably good : it comes like the impressive close of the ancient Greek epigram , one of the most elegant of all poetical compositions . The Suliote Mother fully illustrates ...
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... pieces , comparatively short , but of a degree of excellence equal to any that she has written . From The Last Constantine we quote the two following stanzas , not as some of the best or of the most beautiful , but for the striking ...
... pieces , comparatively short , but of a degree of excellence equal to any that she has written . From The Last Constantine we quote the two following stanzas , not as some of the best or of the most beautiful , but for the striking ...
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... piece , however , is that all the grand business is over at the end of the third In the early scene between Elmina and act . In the fourth act , the scene where Gonzalez , such a depth of feeling and of Raimond di Procida is brought ...
... piece , however , is that all the grand business is over at the end of the third In the early scene between Elmina and act . In the fourth act , the scene where Gonzalez , such a depth of feeling and of Raimond di Procida is brought ...
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... pieces of water , or else , perhaps , for the conveniences of situation in case of attack . From the summit of these monasteries , and just in front , over the iron entrance or archway , there was usually a huge bell suspended ...
... pieces of water , or else , perhaps , for the conveniences of situation in case of attack . From the summit of these monasteries , and just in front , over the iron entrance or archway , there was usually a huge bell suspended ...
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... pieces of minced liver . 2. Roasted lamb with pistachio nuts . 3. Jelly floating on a glass bowl of water , in which gold and silver fish were swimming . 4. Roasted turkey cut in pieces , and stuffed with pine - apple seeds and peeled ...
... pieces of minced liver . 2. Roasted lamb with pistachio nuts . 3. Jelly floating on a glass bowl of water , in which gold and silver fish were swimming . 4. Roasted turkey cut in pieces , and stuffed with pine - apple seeds and peeled ...
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Page 159 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 85 - The Spanish fleet thou canst not see — because — It is not yet in sight !
Page 255 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep...
Page 117 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 173 - He was the finest mule we had, and, on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked gently on, often changing the position of his feet, if he found the ground would not bear, until he came to the bad part of the Pass, when he stopped ; but the peons threw stones at him, and he continued his path in safety, and several others followed.
Page 266 - Not there, not there, my child!" " Is it far away, in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? — Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand ? — Is it there, sweet mother! that better land?" — " Not there, not there, my child ! " Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy!
Page 302 - Its weleome music shed, And find within his lonely halls The silence of the dead ; To look, unconsciously, for her, The chosen and the chief Of earthly joys — and look in vain — THIS is a Father's grief. To stand beside the sufferer's couch, While life is ebbing fast ; To mark that once...
Page 173 - At last a young mule, carrying a portmanteau, with two large sacks of provisions, and many other things, in passing the bad point, struck his load against the rock, which knocked his two...
Page 266 - Mother, oh ! where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more ? Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs? Not there, not there, my child.
Page 173 - The drove of mules now came in sight, one following another: a few were carrying no burdens, but the rest were either mounted or heavily laden. As soon as the leading mule came to the commencement of the Pass, he stopped, evidently unwilling to proceed, and of course all the rest stopped also. " He was the finest mule we had, and, on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked gently on, often changing the position...