Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 92David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1905 - English literature |
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... England offers a parallel similar to a great extent , but not so striking because the intel- lectual revolution was more slowly carried out , and because it worked rather in the direction of a general elevation of character than in ...
... England offers a parallel similar to a great extent , but not so striking because the intel- lectual revolution was more slowly carried out , and because it worked rather in the direction of a general elevation of character than in ...
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... England of the summer birds of passage does not seem to be influenced at all by the forwardness or lateness of the spring . The date when country - dwellers see the first swallow or hear the first nightingale often varies considerably ...
... England of the summer birds of passage does not seem to be influenced at all by the forwardness or lateness of the spring . The date when country - dwellers see the first swallow or hear the first nightingale often varies considerably ...
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... England is waiting hospitably ready or her summer visitors several weeks before they appear . In the wonderful spring of 1893 , which ushered in that long series of dry summers in which the nineteenth century passed away , nothing was ...
... England is waiting hospitably ready or her summer visitors several weeks before they appear . In the wonderful spring of 1893 , which ushered in that long series of dry summers in which the nineteenth century passed away , nothing was ...
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... England yet running full and clear from their springs . Before the end of the sum- mer it became unfortunately plain that the water - bearing strata were even yet not charged sufficiently to withstand a lengthy drought ; but throughout ...
... England yet running full and clear from their springs . Before the end of the sum- mer it became unfortunately plain that the water - bearing strata were even yet not charged sufficiently to withstand a lengthy drought ; but throughout ...
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... England on January 25th , and held on unbroken till February 18th , while for nearly a month longer the temperature re- lapsed sufficiently frequently into the neighbourhood of its former level to keep the mask of winter still fixed ...
... England on January 25th , and held on unbroken till February 18th , while for nearly a month longer the temperature re- lapsed sufficiently frequently into the neighbourhood of its former level to keep the mask of winter still fixed ...
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Page 301 - I have formerly met with from some who lived in that court, the methods then used for raising and cultivating conversation were altogether different from ours: several ladies whom we find celebrated by the poets of that age, had assemblies at their houses, where persons of the best understanding, and of both sexes, met to pass the evenings in discoursing upon whatever agreeable subjects were occasionally started...
Page 125 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Page 416 - The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Page 421 - ... This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice ; that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts that torment the wisest understandings; and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in this world, to an equality and recompensive justice in the next. This is that one day, that shall include and comprehend all that went before it ; wherein, as in the last scene, all the actors must enter, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.
Page 302 - Oh ! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray ' Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day...
Page 280 - Green-yard pulpit, and the service-books and singing-books that could be had, were carried to the fire in the public market-place; a lewd wretch walking before the train, in his cope trailing in the dirt, with a service-book in his hand, imitating in an impious scorn the tune, and usurping the words of the litany used formerly in. the church.
Page 280 - Lord, what work was here ! what clattering of glasses ! what beating down of walls ! what tearing up of monuments ! what pulling down of seats ! what wresting out of irons and brass from the windows and graves ! what defacing of arms ! what demolishing of curious stone-work, that had not any representation in the world, but only of the cost of the founder, and skill of the mason...
Page 302 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Page 415 - Wood* remarks, the first man of eminence graduated from the new college, to which the zeal or gratitude of those that love it most, can wish little better, than that it may long proceed as it began.