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... infunei essd o only by mnion but by the lower animals, and by every object of the material world. The present chapitett of the story of Cisatterton's life are illns- trative of the poet's career during the early part of his; sojourn in London, after hlis removal ...

Bristol Academy of the Fine Arts

... succumbed to the mightier powers of wind and wave; her masts have gone by the board, and the majestic ves- sel, which but a few short hours before walked the waters like a thing of life,?' and rode triumphantly upon the billow, lies crip- pled and disabled ...

LITERATURE

... nine weresacrificed 6 to the new mode, with servile iustantaueousnese. Of what fashion is it not equally true ? With women, short and tall, women stout end slender, women bglghehouldered and low- shouldered, women stooping and straight-backed, women with ...

LITERATURE

... hopetisly, for the advent of better times. In short, every mearis were telen to persuade the agriculturists I that they wers labouring under a temporary but not a permanent I difficulty, and that a very short time would suffice to restore t them to hteir ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... little lips from one ear towards the other, as if all their mouths had been filed with rhubarb. jalap,. aloes, mustard-in short, with anything out of the pharmacopomla of this world but what they wanted: there appeared to be no chance of their ever becoming ...

HOW I BECAME A DRAMATIC AUTHOR!

... isoletad, h w as drve t theru ?? teeNor4 s, teher he reId. = no e x- T myaplicatio to ?? l the porter repliqd On ythes fourth story, the little doer onl the left. So Tipegreat Weuelmy 0mdligef tave.8re-lied hmre pelin fm-athisaser.1~ atug.1 baI d hardrime ...

Literature

... willingly subject ourselves to any charge Of want of gallantry, but we cannot speak very warmly in praise of Lady Felicia. The story of which.she is the hereine i' au extravakahza thrbughont, bearinig abbut' the same relatior to6 a regular novel that a melodrama ...

Literature

... sin, and the union of the lovers throws a gleam of sunshine over the conclusion. Prom this outline it will be seen -that the story contains materials of interest. With regard to the poetic cha- sracter of the work, a weakness in the language is at times ...

Literature

... may safely say, are sufficient to commend it to the notice of die- passionate ipquilrers. Ini reference to the well-known story-of the alleged -appearance to Constantine and his army of the cross In the heavens bearing the inscription , Conquer by this ...

Literature

... of the faculties which be preserved in all the situations tc In which he was tested, if we except those tremendous but ti short-lived outbursts that some half dozentimes in his llft, in hi trying Junctures, overthrew the barriers of habitual restraint ...

Literature

... with pleasure. Some further chapters are given of The Heirs of Randolph Abbey, the characters of the some- wbat singular story being evoked with considerable power; and Jonathan Freke Slingeby contributes, in his usual tasteful manner, -some pages on ...

LITERATURE

... her name. Nothing can be more exquisite than Bulwer's continua- tion of My Novel. There is not much progress made in the story-but there are some exciting scenes, upon which the reader dwells with pleasure. Oar London Commissioner furnishes a second ...