Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 92David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1905 - English literature |
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... land in the North country . There was Captain Russell , that prince of half - castes , dark , hand- some , portly , held in honour by both races from the North Cape to the Bluff . There , again , his round old face wreathed in smiles ...
... land in the North country . There was Captain Russell , that prince of half - castes , dark , hand- some , portly , held in honour by both races from the North Cape to the Bluff . There , again , his round old face wreathed in smiles ...
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... land than elsewhere of rendering periodical account to her own stable laws , and redressing her temporary excesses and deficiencies . To take what is perhaps the most obvious recent example of such a natural re- adjustment , it was upon ...
... land than elsewhere of rendering periodical account to her own stable laws , and redressing her temporary excesses and deficiencies . To take what is perhaps the most obvious recent example of such a natural re- adjustment , it was upon ...
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... land and to make the food of many soft - billed birds almost impossible to obtain . The common song - thrushes , which always suffer more from frosty weather than many birds more delicate and weaker in appearance , perished by hundreds ...
... land and to make the food of many soft - billed birds almost impossible to obtain . The common song - thrushes , which always suffer more from frosty weather than many birds more delicate and weaker in appearance , perished by hundreds ...
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... land , first filling the sheltered thickets and hedge - bottoms , then the barer woods and copses , and lastly the naked fringes of the meres and streams ; and in swift succession the armies of the migrant birds come pressing across the ...
... land , first filling the sheltered thickets and hedge - bottoms , then the barer woods and copses , and lastly the naked fringes of the meres and streams ; and in swift succession the armies of the migrant birds come pressing across the ...
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... land me into difficulties with trades- people . Eugene will never know how near his grey - fringed head has come to being punched . We all dine together ; Eugene , in the eternal green baize apron and the list slippers , vaguely below ...
... land me into difficulties with trades- people . Eugene will never know how near his grey - fringed head has come to being punched . We all dine together ; Eugene , in the eternal green baize apron and the list slippers , vaguely below ...
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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.