Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 60W & R Chambers, 1883 |
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... appearance . He wore a slouched hat , and a brown velveteen jacket that had evidently seen better days . He was an unrecognised genius in the great world of Art , a painter who painted more pictures than he could sell . He and Fro ...
... appearance . He wore a slouched hat , and a brown velveteen jacket that had evidently seen better days . He was an unrecognised genius in the great world of Art , a painter who painted more pictures than he could sell . He and Fro ...
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... appearance at the eventful moment of her intended second husband , utilised the occasion , the clergyman , and the company in a way which must call forth the admiration of the most skilled diplomatist . She was a bouncing young widow of ...
... appearance at the eventful moment of her intended second husband , utilised the occasion , the clergyman , and the company in a way which must call forth the admiration of the most skilled diplomatist . She was a bouncing young widow of ...
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... appearance was , how- ever , nothing to the astonishment and delight which it aroused in this country when Professor Bell , the following year , himself exhibited it in London to the Society of Telegraph Engineers . Since then , its ...
... appearance was , how- ever , nothing to the astonishment and delight which it aroused in this country when Professor Bell , the following year , himself exhibited it in London to the Society of Telegraph Engineers . Since then , its ...
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... appearance at the east end of London with signal success . Davidge , an actor of eccentric parts , then manager of the Surrey , determined , to secure her services for his own house . The transfer was soon effected ; and the lady ...
... appearance at the east end of London with signal success . Davidge , an actor of eccentric parts , then manager of the Surrey , determined , to secure her services for his own house . The transfer was soon effected ; and the lady ...
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... appearance of ' Little ' Robson . I was an amateur then , and a near neighbour , and we fell into He had already donned easy companionship . the sock and buskin at the private theatre in Catherine Street , to the great delight of his ...
... appearance of ' Little ' Robson . I was an amateur then , and a near neighbour , and we fell into He had already donned easy companionship . the sock and buskin at the private theatre in Catherine Street , to the great delight of his ...
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Page 338 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 243 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 337 - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise, and am contradicted ; and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight.
Page 338 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 294 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 87 - There is another fine ode on the installation of the Duke of Grafton, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Page 385 - XXI. The helm, to his strong arm consign'd, Gave the reef'd sail to meet the wind, And on her alter'd way, Fierce bounding, forward sprung the ship, Like greyhound starting from the slip To seize his flying prey. Awaked before the rushing prow, The mimic fires of ocean glow, Those lightnings of the wave ; * Wild sparkles crest the broken tides, And, flashing round, the vessel's sides With elvish lustre lave, While, far behind, their livid light To the dark billows of the night A gloomy splendour...
Page 242 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 243 - Groves. 1 heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day, His voice was buried among trees...
Page 53 - What a place to be in is an old library ! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.