The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 2Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1835 - Art |
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... late , may wish to marry . " You , too , may for a husband sigh , " And feel , too late , the tender passion , " When men , with scorn , will pass you by , " And younger beauties rule the fashion . " She ceas'd . The Maid , with frowns ...
... late , may wish to marry . " You , too , may for a husband sigh , " And feel , too late , the tender passion , " When men , with scorn , will pass you by , " And younger beauties rule the fashion . " She ceas'd . The Maid , with frowns ...
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... late Hannah More . Many unmarried ladies , from their having few household cares to occupy them , become an ornament and a blessing to society ; of almost every public institution for the improvement , or advantage of the poor , or for ...
... late Hannah More . Many unmarried ladies , from their having few household cares to occupy them , become an ornament and a blessing to society ; of almost every public institution for the improvement , or advantage of the poor , or for ...
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... late Col. Fetherston , I observed a large and apparently female stoat , rapidly vaulting , with arched back and bushy tail , through the tall herbage at the head of the pool which terminates the lawn . She carried some- thing in her ...
... late Col. Fetherston , I observed a large and apparently female stoat , rapidly vaulting , with arched back and bushy tail , through the tall herbage at the head of the pool which terminates the lawn . She carried some- thing in her ...
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... late , that probably a description of its appearance at his present Majesty's accession may be agree- able to some of our readers . This fine apartment , seventy - five feet in length , is placed at right angles to the magnificent hall ...
... late , that probably a description of its appearance at his present Majesty's accession may be agree- able to some of our readers . This fine apartment , seventy - five feet in length , is placed at right angles to the magnificent hall ...
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... late Buckingham Palace , and which George IV . ordered to be removed at the express request of Sir Samuel . This exquisite work of art , made of steel , is ornamented with bas - reliefs plated with silver , on a ground of niello , & c ...
... late Buckingham Palace , and which George IV . ordered to be removed at the express request of Sir Samuel . This exquisite work of art , made of steel , is ornamented with bas - reliefs plated with silver , on a ground of niello , & c ...
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Page 193 - The flanking parties were quietly extending themselves, out of sight, on each side of the valley, and the residue were stretching themselves, like the links of a chain, across it, when the wild horses gave signs that they scented an enemy; snuffing the air, snorting, and looking about. At length they pranced off slowly toward the river, and disappeared behind a green bank. Here, had the regulations of the chase been observed, they would have been quietly checked and turned back by the advance of...
Page 261 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Page 396 - 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 39 - Such was Zuleika, such around her shone The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone — The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
Page 192 - This has to be done with extreme care, for the wild horse is the most readily alarmed inhabitant of the prairie, and can scent a hunter at a great distance, if to windward.
Page 193 - Jack-o'-lantern little Frenchman to deal with. Instead of keeping quietly up the right side of the valley, to get above the horses, the moment he saw them move toward the river, he broke out of the...
Page 192 - A beautiful meadow about half a mile wide, enamelled with yellow autumnal flowers, stretched for two or three miles along the foot of the hills, bordered on the opposite side by the river, whose banks were fringed with cotton-wood trees, the bright foliage of which refreshed and delighted the eye, after being wearied by the contemplation of monotonous wastes of brown forest.
Page 65 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 257 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.