The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 10Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1876 - Humanities |
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... Perhaps I am not so strong as I ought to be , " she said , taking his arm , and walk- ing slowly away from the grave . " And you trust me at last ? " Brian . " Shall I give you a proof of it ? " " Yes . " " Shall I tell you my new ...
... Perhaps I am not so strong as I ought to be , " she said , taking his arm , and walk- ing slowly away from the grave . " And you trust me at last ? " Brian . " Shall I give you a proof of it ? " " Yes . " " Shall I tell you my new ...
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... Perhaps it was all for the best that Mabel Westbrook was to leave the premises - she was certainly poor now - and Angelo's position could always secure him a bride from one of the best families in the country . She was very sorry ...
... Perhaps it was all for the best that Mabel Westbrook was to leave the premises - she was certainly poor now - and Angelo's position could always secure him a bride from one of the best families in the country . She was very sorry ...
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... Perhaps a pair of definitions , given by two of our best - known authors , will make this more apparent than pages of criticism . Professor Tyndall says , " Let us employ , generally , the useful and appropriate term energy to denote ...
... Perhaps a pair of definitions , given by two of our best - known authors , will make this more apparent than pages of criticism . Professor Tyndall says , " Let us employ , generally , the useful and appropriate term energy to denote ...
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... perhaps , be evident in what sense the primordial form of all energy is that of visible position . The atoms of the universe may be supposed to have ori- ginally stood off from one another in a state of mechanical , chemical , and ...
... perhaps , be evident in what sense the primordial form of all energy is that of visible position . The atoms of the universe may be supposed to have ori- ginally stood off from one another in a state of mechanical , chemical , and ...
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... perhaps , one of the neatest bon - mots on record ąpro- pos of Selwyn's ruling passion . Being in- formed that George had been inquiring for him , he said to his servant , " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls , show him up ; if I am alive ...
... perhaps , one of the neatest bon - mots on record ąpro- pos of Selwyn's ruling passion . Being in- formed that George had been inquiring for him , he said to his servant , " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls , show him up ; if I am alive ...
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Page 38 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own...
Page 403 - A Hair perhaps divides the False and True; Yes; and a single Alif were the clue — Could you but find it — to the Treasure-house, And peradventure to THE MASTER too...
Page 402 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Page 402 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Page 402 - Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Page 348 - For from cock-crow he had been travelling, And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he ; And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow-tree.
Page 404 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 404 - Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 307 - Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of GOD are strewn ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 404 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, • •*" •, That Life is ever lord of Death, ^ j^* And Love can never lose its own!