Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 92David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1905 - English literature |
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... hours it may be too late or vastly more difficult . Now is the hour . " Even The Mr. Fletcher half rose to his feet , then settled himself again in his chair . His face was set in hard , untrans- latable lines , as under the control of ...
... hours it may be too late or vastly more difficult . Now is the hour . " Even The Mr. Fletcher half rose to his feet , then settled himself again in his chair . His face was set in hard , untrans- latable lines , as under the control of ...
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... hour ago he had seemed to read for the first time surrender in the girl's eyes . Her voice had held a lingering tender- ness . She had shown him that she understood the uncompleted speech , the questioning glance . Her eyes had fallen ...
... hour ago he had seemed to read for the first time surrender in the girl's eyes . Her voice had held a lingering tender- ness . She had shown him that she understood the uncompleted speech , the questioning glance . Her eyes had fallen ...
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... hour the last demand was finished and sealed ; it was a triumph of invective in polite English , and as the young man read it through it seemed to do him good . One task remained to be performed . Geoffrey looked again at the list , and ...
... hour the last demand was finished and sealed ; it was a triumph of invective in polite English , and as the young man read it through it seemed to do him good . One task remained to be performed . Geoffrey looked again at the list , and ...
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... hour later , he entered the build- ing , and the musicians were already beginning to tune their instruments for the first waltz . He made his way through the crowd at the door and up the room , where the couples were already beginning ...
... hour later , he entered the build- ing , and the musicians were already beginning to tune their instruments for the first waltz . He made his way through the crowd at the door and up the room , where the couples were already beginning ...
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... hour , but they haven't found it out yet , and they keep on pouring all the same . Come in and watch ; it's dead ... hours later Eve sat white and trembling in the privacy of her own room , and asked herself despairingly what she had ...
... hour , but they haven't found it out yet , and they keep on pouring all the same . Come in and watch ; it's dead ... hours later Eve sat white and trembling in the privacy of her own room , and asked herself despairingly what she had ...
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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.