MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 16Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1867 |
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... look about him ; point does not chat with cover - point . What parties are more solemn than those that sit round a whist - table ? The truth is that all the better sort of games , all those which really refresh and reinvigorate , are of ...
... look about him ; point does not chat with cover - point . What parties are more solemn than those that sit round a whist - table ? The truth is that all the better sort of games , all those which really refresh and reinvigorate , are of ...
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... look out for was that he did not , in his enthusiastic devotion to rascality , outrun his instructions , and compromise you . What his real name was , or where he came from , is a thing we shall never know . His name certainly could not ...
... look out for was that he did not , in his enthusiastic devotion to rascality , outrun his instructions , and compromise you . What his real name was , or where he came from , is a thing we shall never know . His name certainly could not ...
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... look farouche like that , and , if you choose to swear , swear in something less than a dozen languages at once . " " I was not swearing , your Highness ; I was praying - praying for the safety of your Highness's intellect . " " Well ...
... look farouche like that , and , if you choose to swear , swear in something less than a dozen languages at once . " " I was not swearing , your Highness ; I was praying - praying for the safety of your Highness's intellect . " " Well ...
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... look at us . They say that the demolition of the fortifications has changed the chances utterly . I came here expecting to head a revolt , and all the employment I can find is a very dirty job . " " " " And what may that be ? " said ...
... look at us . They say that the demolition of the fortifications has changed the chances utterly . I came here expecting to head a revolt , and all the employment I can find is a very dirty job . " " " " And what may that be ? " said ...
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... look at her face , before the coffin should be closed . At the head of the corpse stood the pale ghost of Liberty , staring with a calm frozen face at Georgey , who was in the right- hand corner , with a face distorted by terror and ...
... look at her face , before the coffin should be closed . At the head of the corpse stood the pale ghost of Liberty , staring with a calm frozen face at Georgey , who was in the right- hand corner , with a face distorted by terror and ...
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Page 233 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 280 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 397 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 79 - Good sir, why do you start ; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? — I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction...
Page 81 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 209 - RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 274 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 281 - Jacobinism, — its fierceness, and its addiction to an abstract system. Culture is always assigning to systemmakers and systems a smaller share in the bent of human destiny than their friends like.
Page 82 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 417 - ViceChancellor Sir W. PAGE WOOD stated publicly in Court that Dr. J. COLLIS BROWNE was UNDOUBTEDLY the INVENTOR of CHLORODYNE, that the whole story of the defendant Freeman was deliberately untrue, and he regretted to say it had been sworn to. — See The Times, July I3th, 1864. Dr. J. Collis Browne's CHLORODYNE...