The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 5Macmillan and Company, 1888 - England |
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... looked back at him , admired him , wondered who he was . But let us get back to our horses and coachmen ; for the history of the Bath Road is not all a literary history , though , of all the great roads of England , I have found it the ...
... looked back at him , admired him , wondered who he was . But let us get back to our horses and coachmen ; for the history of the Bath Road is not all a literary history , though , of all the great roads of England , I have found it the ...
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... looked at the apparitions and found one was a fat King in Lincoln green and the other a pale abbott extremely emaciated , having his hand pressed meaningly on the place where his supper ought to have been and clearly was not - under ...
... looked at the apparitions and found one was a fat King in Lincoln green and the other a pale abbott extremely emaciated , having his hand pressed meaningly on the place where his supper ought to have been and clearly was not - under ...
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... looked about her , and for lack of something else to say , asked , " Will you have a cup of tea , Master Tapp ? " " I don't mind if I do , " he replied . " It'll soothe the inflammation I feel within me . Ah ! Mistress Bagg , did you ...
... looked about her , and for lack of something else to say , asked , " Will you have a cup of tea , Master Tapp ? " " I don't mind if I do , " he replied . " It'll soothe the inflammation I feel within me . Ah ! Mistress Bagg , did you ...
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... looked at us , eating the beech leaves steadily , but would not answer , not even , " Where's your father to ? " For in Somerset the " to " is put last , and must never be omitted ; thus , instead of saying " I bought this at Taunton ...
... looked at us , eating the beech leaves steadily , but would not answer , not even , " Where's your father to ? " For in Somerset the " to " is put last , and must never be omitted ; thus , instead of saying " I bought this at Taunton ...
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... looked coolly and keenly at the man's contorted features . They were of a Jewish cast . The fugitive , meantime , in ... looked furtively round , as if he would fain make off again . " Bring the rascal along , " said Reginald to his ...
... looked coolly and keenly at the man's contorted features . They were of a Jewish cast . The fugitive , meantime , in ... looked furtively round , as if he would fain make off again . " Bring the rascal along , " said Reginald to his ...
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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...