Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 79David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1899 - English literature |
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... seemed favourably impressed with her brother's friend , and that Mrs. Smart and his mother appeared to have found interests in common . Still even this knowledge could not allay the unsatisfactory feeling which the news of Heriot's ...
... seemed favourably impressed with her brother's friend , and that Mrs. Smart and his mother appeared to have found interests in common . Still even this knowledge could not allay the unsatisfactory feeling which the news of Heriot's ...
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... seemed clear that the case presented difficulties . In any case there was a tacit understanding between them that the subject was not to be touched upon lightly . Thus it was that on Waring's return home , although he found himself ...
... seemed clear that the case presented difficulties . In any case there was a tacit understanding between them that the subject was not to be touched upon lightly . Thus it was that on Waring's return home , although he found himself ...
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... seemed to make it a dishonourable thing for him to give the address . It was precisely the same mulish feeling that had silenced him once before when in his heart of hearts he would have liked to tell Ethel of Heriot's engagement . " Ah ...
... seemed to make it a dishonourable thing for him to give the address . It was precisely the same mulish feeling that had silenced him once before when in his heart of hearts he would have liked to tell Ethel of Heriot's engagement . " Ah ...
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... seemed as though he would have to acknowledge himself beaten . It Suddenly , as he thus chewed the cud of bitter reflections , there came to him guidance from an unexpected source in the shape of a bustling young woman who , entering ...
... seemed as though he would have to acknowledge himself beaten . It Suddenly , as he thus chewed the cud of bitter reflections , there came to him guidance from an unexpected source in the shape of a bustling young woman who , entering ...
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... seemed to be trying to collect his thoughts and sat silent with his face in his hands , then look- ing up at Heriot he continued : " All same you're precious fool - chuck that girl over . Simple ripper , I can tell you . Going to t ...
... seemed to be trying to collect his thoughts and sat silent with his face in his hands , then look- ing up at Heriot he continued : " All same you're precious fool - chuck that girl over . Simple ripper , I can tell you . Going to t ...
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Page 8 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 155 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
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Page 341 - I do further declare that neither hopes, fears, rewards or punishments, shall ever induce me directly or indirectly, to inform on, or give evidence against any member or members of this or similar societies, for any act or expression of theirs, done or made collectively or individually, in or out of this society, in pursuance of the spirit of this obligation.