Victoria Magazine, Volume 32Emily Faithfull, 1879 |
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... Played " Clancarty . " By Ina Leon Cassilis Five o'clock Tea ( A Dialogue ) . By Suoles The Marble Statue ( A Galician Romance ) Under the Rose ( Poem ) . By J. Ashby - Sterry ... Forget - me - not . By Stuart Cumberland .. To May on ...
... Played " Clancarty . " By Ina Leon Cassilis Five o'clock Tea ( A Dialogue ) . By Suoles The Marble Statue ( A Galician Romance ) Under the Rose ( Poem ) . By J. Ashby - Sterry ... Forget - me - not . By Stuart Cumberland .. To May on ...
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... theatricals : but we , my granny and I , cared for none of these things . From childhood to girlhood I had been acquainted with few even of other " " children , but passed my time in such solitary play RCAY YCRE 80 LIBRARY.
... theatricals : but we , my granny and I , cared for none of these things . From childhood to girlhood I had been acquainted with few even of other " " children , but passed my time in such solitary play RCAY YCRE 80 LIBRARY.
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children , but passed my time in such solitary play as I could , until my granny got masters - the best the neighbourhood could afford - to teach me all I was inclined to learn ; and then I devoted myself to study and hard work , being ...
children , but passed my time in such solitary play as I could , until my granny got masters - the best the neighbourhood could afford - to teach me all I was inclined to learn ; and then I devoted myself to study and hard work , being ...
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... played and lost several thousand pounds , to be promptly discharged as a debt of honour , while legal difficulties hindered the raising of the sum by mortgage of his estates . The result was , George Augustus must have forthwith either ...
... played and lost several thousand pounds , to be promptly discharged as a debt of honour , while legal difficulties hindered the raising of the sum by mortgage of his estates . The result was , George Augustus must have forthwith either ...
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... play upon you some day ; I'm an old fool to love you , but I do . " " Oh , but not in the way Mrs. Nightingale thinks . " " Oh , women have sharp eyes . She has ; but you - you won't see it , that's all . " " Why , what can I possibly ...
... play upon you some day ; I'm an old fool to love you , but I do . " " Oh , but not in the way Mrs. Nightingale thinks . " " Oh , women have sharp eyes . She has ; but you - you won't see it , that's all . " " Why , what can I possibly ...
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Page 223 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 454 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Page 454 - Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil...
Page 444 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 444 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 455 - Child of the wandering sea; Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on my ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 455 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 493 - to erect, maintain and conduct a College for the higher education of women" ; and "to take such steps as from time to time may be thought most expedient and effectual to obtain for the Students of the College admission to the examinations for degrees of the University of Cambridge ; and generally to place the College in connection with that University.
Page 472 - So enraptured was I with the idea of acting this part, and so fearful of anything preventing me, that I did not tell the manager I had no dresses, until it was too late for me to be prevented from acting it; and the day before the performance, after rehearsal, I told him. He immediately sat down and wrote a note of introduction for me to the tragedienne of the French Theatre, which then employed some of the best among French artists for its company. This note was to ask her to help me to costumes...
Page 296 - So they to each other kept clinging, and clung, While Time his swift circuit was winging and wung ; And this was the thing he was bringing and brung : The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught ; That she wanted from others to snatch, and had snaught ; Was the one she now liked to scratch, and she scraught.