Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 92David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1905 - English literature |
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... reached the dividing of the ways , that the choice , whether for good or evil , was to be set before him , past his power to refuse . Not to all men , never twice to any man , is given that de- liberate selection of his earthly fate ...
... reached the dividing of the ways , that the choice , whether for good or evil , was to be set before him , past his power to refuse . Not to all men , never twice to any man , is given that de- liberate selection of his earthly fate ...
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... reached his room without encountering anyone , and proceeded to dress for the dance . Dress suits were not obligatory , but there was one in his trunk , and he put it on . He had common - sense enough to per- ceive that it might profit ...
... reached his room without encountering anyone , and proceeded to dress for the dance . Dress suits were not obligatory , but there was one in his trunk , and he put it on . He had common - sense enough to per- ceive that it might profit ...
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... reached , much more might be done by helping boys to realise the fascination of Virgil , and by a wide selection of the best works of Catullus , Propertius , Tibullus , and Martial . Even Politian and the Renaissance verse - writers ...
... reached , much more might be done by helping boys to realise the fascination of Virgil , and by a wide selection of the best works of Catullus , Propertius , Tibullus , and Martial . Even Politian and the Renaissance verse - writers ...
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... reached the timber , but by that time I succeeded in convincing him that I had no ulterior motive in my I mentioned that we had met English John and some of the diggers in the township , and had seen them off for Auckland , on hearing ...
... reached the timber , but by that time I succeeded in convincing him that I had no ulterior motive in my I mentioned that we had met English John and some of the diggers in the township , and had seen them off for Auckland , on hearing ...
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... reached the golden sands of the Pelly by working our way under the ice - jam at its con- flux with the lordly Yukon , all , for the time , became as children . Some times , when the talker would mention a name , a murmur of comment ...
... reached the golden sands of the Pelly by working our way under the ice - jam at its con- flux with the lordly Yukon , all , for the time , became as children . Some times , when the talker would mention a name , a murmur of comment ...
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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.