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Side 28
... considered || Mental Anatomy , in which all the to be a good temper , because this moral and intellectual qualities of paper will illustrate it by a very the human mind and character will well - written and contrasted exam- be fully ...
... considered || Mental Anatomy , in which all the to be a good temper , because this moral and intellectual qualities of paper will illustrate it by a very the human mind and character will well - written and contrasted exam- be fully ...
Side 36
... considered as strong tests of the value of compositions ; mu- sic which we do not remember af- ter the performance , has seldom strong claims on our recollection . The character of this overture is that of lively gaiety , and borders on ...
... considered as strong tests of the value of compositions ; mu- sic which we do not remember af- ter the performance , has seldom strong claims on our recollection . The character of this overture is that of lively gaiety , and borders on ...
Side 55
... considered so fa- ing , affords little room for descrip- shionable as bonnets made of let- tion , ting - in lace , which are joined by narrow satin ribbon : these ribbons are flowered , and very beautifully shaded . These bonnets are ...
... considered so fa- ing , affords little room for descrip- shionable as bonnets made of let- tion , ting - in lace , which are joined by narrow satin ribbon : these ribbons are flowered , and very beautifully shaded . These bonnets are ...
Side 56
... considered most elegant in white . Its form is very simple : a plain round dress , made to fit the shape without any fulness in the body ; the sleeve , of the same material , very short and full , confined to the arm by a slight ...
... considered most elegant in white . Its form is very simple : a plain round dress , made to fit the shape without any fulness in the body ; the sleeve , of the same material , very short and full , confined to the arm by a slight ...
Side 58
... considered most fa- shionable . There is no longer any differ- ence in the form of morning or dinner dress , high gowns being considered most fashionable for both ; and collars , notwithstanding || than usual , though not so tight as ...
... considered most fa- shionable . There is no longer any differ- ence in the form of morning or dinner dress , high gowns being considered most fashionable for both ; and collars , notwithstanding || than usual , though not so tight as ...
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Side 185 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Side 238 - I, and held a lucrative office in the ' court of wards,' till that singular court was abolished at the time of the restoration. In his own times he was called ' The great Audley,'* an epithet so often abused, and here applied to the creation of enormous wealth. But there are minds of great capacity, concealed by the nature of their pursuits ; and the wealth of AUDLEY may be considered as the cloudy medium through which a bright genius shone, of which, had it been thrown into a nobler sphere of action,...
Side 240 - Hence he considered marriage, with a modern political economist, as very dangerous; bitterly censuring the clergy, whose children, he said, never thrived, and whose widows were left destitute. An apostolical life, according to...
Side 185 - A gem away, that thou hadst sworn Should ever in thy heart be worn. Come, if the love thou hast for me Is pure and fresh as mine for thee, — Fresh as the fountain under ground, When first 'tis by the lapwing found...
Side 280 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Side 91 - ... deformity, Affectation; it will produce the grin, the simper, the stare, the languish, the pout, and innumerable other grimaces, that render folly ridiculous, and change pity to contempt. By...
Side 307 - Foes to light-heart jollity : May no winds careering high Drive the clouds along the sky, But may all nature smile with aspect boon, When in the heavens thou show'st thy face, oh Harvest Moon!
Side 170 - It was dusk, when two squadrons of Prussian cavalry, both of them two deep, passed over me in full trot, lifting me from the ground, and tumbling me about cruelly : the clatter of their approach, and the apprehensions it EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF COLONEL PONSONIJY.
Side 92 - The love of reason and of virtue is mingled with the love of beauty; because this beauty is little more than the emanation of intellectual excellence, which is not an object of corporeal appetite. As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly engages to fidelity: every man finds himself more powerfully restrained from giving pain to goodness than to beauty; and every look of a countenance in which they are blended, in which beauty is the expression of goodness, is a silent reproach...
Side 91 - It has been remarked that the predominant passion may generally be discovered in the countenance ; because the muscles by which it is expressed, being almost perpetually contracted, lose their tone, and never totally relax ; so that the expression remains when the passion is suspended ; thus, an angry, a disdainful, a subtle, and a suspicious temper, is displayed in characters that are almost universally understood. It is equally true of the pleasing and the softer passions, that they leave their...