The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 5Macmillan and Company, 1888 - England |
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... hand , to do this thoroughly , would be to write the social history of England for three centuries , on the other hand , to deal solely with the roads from the time when they became coaching roads indeed , when the six - inside ...
... hand , to do this thoroughly , would be to write the social history of England for three centuries , on the other hand , to deal solely with the roads from the time when they became coaching roads indeed , when the six - inside ...
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... hand in the defunct hero's pocket and produced , -- not his purse but his Dying Confession . I much regret that I cannot reproduce this elegant effort here . It resignation not unmixed with a Stoic's con- is written in a blithe spirit ...
... hand in the defunct hero's pocket and produced , -- not his purse but his Dying Confession . I much regret that I cannot reproduce this elegant effort here . It resignation not unmixed with a Stoic's con- is written in a blithe spirit ...
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... hand pressed meaningly on the place where his supper ought to have been and clearly was not - under which present ... hands folded before him embraced a portly person . Behind him rode the fat king tossing a purse of gold and shaking his ...
... hand pressed meaningly on the place where his supper ought to have been and clearly was not - under which present ... hands folded before him embraced a portly person . Behind him rode the fat king tossing a purse of gold and shaking his ...
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... hand and under the pale moonlight . The lady had refused numberless offers of marriage made in due form . Due forms however were her aversion , and so seem men to have been , till one fine day , when " Being at a noble wedding In the ...
... hand and under the pale moonlight . The lady had refused numberless offers of marriage made in due form . Due forms however were her aversion , and so seem men to have been , till one fine day , when " Being at a noble wedding In the ...
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... hands above her face , not to screen the sun from it , but to serve as a perch for the gull , and a protection to her ... hand , and now , fair play . I will put the bread in my lips , and you shall peck and try to take it-- She without ...
... hands above her face , not to screen the sun from it , but to serve as a perch for the gull , and a protection to her ... hand , and now , fair play . I will put the bread in my lips , and you shall peck and try to take it-- She without ...
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Page 361 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 330 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 552 - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece, A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece, 'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespear, and Corneille, Can make a Gibber, Tibbald, or Ozell.
Page 491 - Old cathedral too — earthy smell — pilgrims' feet worn away the old steps — little Saxon doors — confessionals like money-takers' boxes at theatres — queer customers those monks — Popes, and Lord Treasurers, and all sorts of old fellows, with great red faces, and broken noses, turning up every day — buff jerkins too — match-locks — Sarcophagus — fine place...
Page 491 - appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets, are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish and oysters. The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. It is truly delightful to a philanthropic mind, to see...
Page 3 - WHEN I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine : Such life my heart remembers In all as wild Septembers As this when life seems other, Though sweet, than once was mine ; When I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine.
Page 465 - To the kirtles whereof he would tack us ; With his saints and his gilded stern-frames, He had thought like an egg-shell to crack us ; Now Howard may get to his Flaccus, And Drake to his Devon again, And Hawkins bowl rubbers to Bacchus, — For where are the galleons of Spain ? Let his Majesty hang to St. James...
Page 20 - Well fare thy heart,' quoth the abbot, ' and here in a cup of sack I remember the health of his grace your master. I would give an hundred pounds on the condition I could feed so heartily on beef as you do.
Page 461 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 8 - At both which places, they may be received in a Stage Coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which performs the whole journey in four days (if God permits), and sets forth at Five in the Morning...