Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art, 第 13 卷

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William Harrison Ainsworth
Chapman and Hall, 1848
 

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第 449 頁 - Thirty points of perfection each judge understands, The Standard of feminine beauty demands. Three white: — and, without further prelude, we know That the skin, hands and teeth should be pearly as snow. Three black: — and our standard departure forbids From dark eyes, darksome tresses and darkly fringed lids. Three red: — and the lover of comeliness seeks For the hue of the rose in the lips, nails and cheeks. Three long: — and of this you, no doubt, are aware? Long the body should be, long...
第 152 頁 - Seward's, and, previously to his embarkation for America, he made a journey into Derbyshire, to pay her a visit, and it was arranged that they should ride over to see the wonders of the Peak, and introduce Andre to Newton, her minstrel, as she called him, and to Mr.
第 355 頁 - The most atrocious villain may be rigidly devout, and without any shock to established faith, confess himself to be so. Religion pervades intently the whole frame of ' society, and is, according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.
第 302 頁 - The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white, From the sails the dew did drip — Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.
第 442 頁 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
第 25 頁 - D'ans ny de maladie, et en toutes les sortes Mes nerfs sont bien tendus, et mes veines bien fortes ; Et si j'ay le teint palle et le cheveu grison, Mes membres toutefois ne sont hors de saison.
第 290 頁 - Unable to comprehend of what nature this light could be, the minister was deliberating whether to make inquiries at the house or return, when it appeared again, seeming to come out of the house, accompanied by another, passed him, and, going over the same ground, they both disappeared on the spot where he had first observed the phenomenon. He left a mark on the grave by which he might recognise it, and the next day inquired of the sexton whose it was. The man said it belonged to a family that lived...
第 152 頁 - Whilst these two gentlemen were awaiting the arrival of their guests, of whose intentions they had been apprised, Mr. Cunningham mentioned to Newton that, on the preceding night, he had had a very extraordinary dream, which he could not get out of his head. He had fancied himself in a forest ; the place was strange to him ; and, whilst looking about, he perceived a horseman approaching at great speed, who had scarcely reached the spot where the dreamer stood, when three men rushed out of the thicket,...
第 428 頁 - The redeeming qualities are size, simplicity, and situation. It stands about 2700 feet above the level of the sea, and is part and parcel of the mountain out of which it has been constructed : it is so large that it looks, not a wart upon Olympus, but grand even amid the mighty buttresses of nature, which form an appropriate frame to the severe picture.
第 151 頁 - As the eyes of your body,' said he, ' which lies now on your bed and sleeps, are inactive and useless, and yet you have eyes wherewith you see me and these things I have shown unto you ; so after death, when these bodily organs fail you, you will have a vital power, whereby you will live, and a sensitive faculty, whereby you will perceive. Doubt, therefore, no longer that there is a life after death.

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