Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 92David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1905 - English literature |
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... once plainly told him , that not even an archangel could effect the permanent conversion of the county , but a good deal less than an archangel might have held its attention longer . Thus the meetings on the beach , at first held daily ...
... once plainly told him , that not even an archangel could effect the permanent conversion of the county , but a good deal less than an archangel might have held its attention longer . Thus the meetings on the beach , at first held daily ...
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... once my wife . This is an exact- ing world , but a man needs no more than that . He could do , indeed , with less . There was my two years ' ab- sence in China ; there was the con- fidence I reposed in him ; these provided the ...
... once my wife . This is an exact- ing world , but a man needs no more than that . He could do , indeed , with less . There was my two years ' ab- sence in China ; there was the con- fidence I reposed in him ; these provided the ...
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... once they had dwelt on his for seconds , wherein his blood was tuned to music . There was a sweet homeliness in her manner , that self - revelation which is only for our nearest and dearest . And surely the thought of the coming night ...
... once they had dwelt on his for seconds , wherein his blood was tuned to music . There was a sweet homeliness in her manner , that self - revelation which is only for our nearest and dearest . And surely the thought of the coming night ...
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... once previously seen the light , -at Government House , Auckland . Diamonds gleamed in her hair and at her throat . Her bare arms and neck had the delicacy , grace , and roundness of a young child's . Her face was dazzling , daring in ...
... once previously seen the light , -at Government House , Auckland . Diamonds gleamed in her hair and at her throat . Her bare arms and neck had the delicacy , grace , and roundness of a young child's . Her face was dazzling , daring in ...
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... once to detain him . " Was it '57 or '58 ? " " I say , Mil- ward , you remember that night in - ? " " Here's Milward , he will tell you . It was a small convoy ; they could have cut us up to a man , for the ambush was well planned . But ...
... once to detain him . " Was it '57 or '58 ? " " I say , Mil- ward , you remember that night in - ? " " Here's Milward , he will tell you . It was a small convoy ; they could have cut us up to a man , for the ambush was well planned . But ...
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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.