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... great interest, the last Sketch, being the firagment of!a story commenced by Charlotte Bronte- believed to be the last thing, she wrote, with a brief in- troduction by Thackeray. There are three short poems of no great merit, though the name of Monckton Milnes ...

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... in the Decline of Life-! and , On the Differences between the Urban and Rural Temperament. Much superior to his Strange Story, which is one of the strangest things we ever read, these Essays are vastly in- ferior to the novel of the Caxton Family ...

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... the' flesh ' diot'they die in large.numbers., If approaching maturity, they appear to ?? and'-attain great weight in ' ve.ry short time. ' Sows fed on flesh, whether raw or cooked, healthy or diseased, are-capable. of breeding, but tbeir young die shortly ...

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... head flings him down at his feet, a corpse The music, which has marvellously expressed the incidents of the o story throughout, here stops short with a wail of terror and compassion; and I assure you at the last note your. brow will be moist, and if not ...

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... head, ffligs himn down at his feet, a corpse. The music, which has marvellously expressed the incidents of the story throughout., here steps short with a wail of terror and compassion; and I assure you at the last note your brow will be moist, and if not ...

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... greatest brilliancy to have folly equalled the pole-star in its general impression on the eye, the tail has throughout been short and uncon. spricoroce; hardly, on any occasion, having been clearl3 traceable more than five or six degrees, and exhibiting ...

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... e cakes burn on a hordrdran's hearth. It brings rip the f story of King Carrute seating himself o'r the edge of the tide, for morllisirg purposes, to' shame his flatterers; and the other story of his rowing near the land of the n PiFens, that he might ...

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... to handle the yard-stick and to measure tape; the only discredit consists in having a soul whose range of thoughts is as short as the stick and as narrow as the tape. There is no glory in the act of affixing a signature by which> the treasures of commerce ...

Poetry

... RYDDIAITHOL. FY NOiATH DDU. ?? Mae geni stori feuhan, th Ond bod hi'n wyneb lwyd, co 'Roedd ilygod yn fy mlino an A bwyta fy holl twyd. Cl Ond fel dacth rhyw drngaredd( diolrh byth) en A thori'r storl n short th Ceos gath gan wr boneddig Ai henw yw l ...

Facetiae

... shilling and. sxpence; 3r short tails, two shillings. The lady asked'the owner of r the land the reason for the difference of the price. He ?? answered, You see, ma'am, the long tailis can brush a. away the flies; but the short tails are so tormented by ...

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... of box after box and shll' ,after stall' wver e glibly named. There were but two performances in each ?? and Saturdays. A short opera and a long ballet formed the regular bill of fare. Those were the days of ballet (which I am happy to say is, at least ...

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... carvel those longing words aiud composed in his solitary hours, the melody to which they are still Sanna (yiog, says thie story, of, a broken heart, just as the h olidays we're enuilng-tlthenimnbers of MACA forJune, Jhly, a11 August thioe wvere letters ...