Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 54Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1863 - Literature |
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... fact that , however serious were his intentions , those of the young lady had been but to amuse herself by permitting him to occupy the time which often hung heavily on her hands . " And will you really stay away a whole month , Angy ...
... fact that , however serious were his intentions , those of the young lady had been but to amuse herself by permitting him to occupy the time which often hung heavily on her hands . " And will you really stay away a whole month , Angy ...
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... fact that the principle of nationality is not the highest thing , but that liberty stands far above it , the principle of nationality would be outraged by the demand of mathematical frontiers , such as they existed a hundred years ago ...
... fact that the principle of nationality is not the highest thing , but that liberty stands far above it , the principle of nationality would be outraged by the demand of mathematical frontiers , such as they existed a hundred years ago ...
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... fact , on the morning of February 16th another piece came away . After I had opened my little portmanteau , I handed Garibaldi the letters I had brought for him , and settled a few business affairs with him . When this was all ...
... fact , on the morning of February 16th another piece came away . After I had opened my little portmanteau , I handed Garibaldi the letters I had brought for him , and settled a few business affairs with him . When this was all ...
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... fact which strikes the mind of an Englishman who enters a French kitchen for the first time ( that is , supposing he can see across it ) is , there is no fireplace in it . A kitchen without a fireplace ! one would as soon expect to see ...
... fact which strikes the mind of an Englishman who enters a French kitchen for the first time ( that is , supposing he can see across it ) is , there is no fireplace in it . A kitchen without a fireplace ! one would as soon expect to see ...
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... fact , those who daily saw Leigh Hunt nearest , and ought to have known him best , assure us that in his personal habits he was a sheer contrast to his absurdly alleged type - that he was simple even to severity in his ways of life ...
... fact , those who daily saw Leigh Hunt nearest , and ought to have known him best , assure us that in his personal habits he was a sheer contrast to his absurdly alleged type - that he was simple even to severity in his ways of life ...
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Page 54 - Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four — I love so much their style and tone — One Turner, and no more. (A landscape, foreground golden dirt, The sunshine painted with a squirt). Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there . Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream.
Page 491 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 287 - And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 50 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith...
Page 138 - Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest. How green the banks were now, how bright the flowers growing on them, and how tall the rushes ! Now the boat was out at sea, but gliding smoothly on. And now there was a shore before him.
Page 141 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Page 131 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Page 486 - In truth, there is no such thing in man's nature, as a settled and full resolve, either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. Let us hope, therefore, that all the dreadful consequences of sin will not be incurred, unless the act have set its seal upon the thought.
Page 134 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 131 - ... magnificence. And on the sandy shore, beside the verge Of Ocean, here and there, a rock-hewn fane Resisted in its strength the surf and surge That on their deep foundations beat in vain. In solitude the Ancient Temples stood, Once resonant with instrument and song, And solemn dance of festive multitude ; Now, as the weary ages pass along, Hearing no voice save of the Ocean flood. Which roars for ever on the restless shores ; Or, visiting their solitary caves, The lonely sound of winds, that moan...