Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... Perhaps you will make the same complaint of me to - morrow , " returned the queen . " Impossible , madame , " said Buckingham . " There is much more likelihood that I shall sink in your opinion . 99 " At all events , I promise to be ...
... Perhaps you will make the same complaint of me to - morrow , " returned the queen . " Impossible , madame , " said Buckingham . " There is much more likelihood that I shall sink in your opinion . 99 " At all events , I promise to be ...
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... Perhaps it is Buckingham , " cried the Duc de Luynes . " Bah ! " exclaimed Louis . " The notion is absurd . You might as well assert the Prince of Wales is in the room . " " Just as well , sire , —one assertion is as likely as the other ...
... Perhaps it is Buckingham , " cried the Duc de Luynes . " Bah ! " exclaimed Louis . " The notion is absurd . You might as well assert the Prince of Wales is in the room . " " Just as well , sire , —one assertion is as likely as the other ...
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... perhaps the larger , portion of the youth of Italy follow their lead , and any absence of clearness of principles is compensated for by the name of Garibaldi , who equally had the misfortune to allow himself to be led by this party ...
... perhaps the larger , portion of the youth of Italy follow their lead , and any absence of clearness of principles is compensated for by the name of Garibaldi , who equally had the misfortune to allow himself to be led by this party ...
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... perhaps the cause of this will appear by - and - by . It may be matter of surprise to those who learn that a nobleman so distinguished as the Count de Manqued'argent did not put up at the best hotel in Milan - for instance , at the ...
... perhaps the cause of this will appear by - and - by . It may be matter of surprise to those who learn that a nobleman so distinguished as the Count de Manqued'argent did not put up at the best hotel in Milan - for instance , at the ...
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... Perhaps only a few hours -perhaps longer ; but I think I may safely say that if you favour us with a call to - morrow , about this hour - as we shall mark the message ' immediate ' - that the answer will be here . " On this basis the ...
... Perhaps only a few hours -perhaps longer ; but I think I may safely say that if you favour us with a call to - morrow , about this hour - as we shall mark the message ' immediate ' - that the answer will be here . " On this basis the ...
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Page 410 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 71 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 619 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 521 - When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll, And swelling organs lift the rising soul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight : In seas of flame my plunging soul is drown'd, While altars blaze, and angels tremble round.
Page 523 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving ; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving ; There, thy rest shalt thou take, Parted for ever, Never again to wake, Never, O never.
Page 618 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Page 619 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 411 - The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom, " passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 295 - He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness.
Page 78 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steamengine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.