The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 231Bradbury, Evans, 1871 - English periodicals |
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... seen the sons of Cœlus and Terra , and can describe their horrible features . They have measured clubs and swords with them . Marvellous are the stories they tell . Sometimes I think my poor wounded friends multiply their foes , as ...
... seen the sons of Cœlus and Terra , and can describe their horrible features . They have measured clubs and swords with them . Marvellous are the stories they tell . Sometimes I think my poor wounded friends multiply their foes , as ...
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... seen the elms whispering together over them , and heard the crows telling each other the history of the Deanery , with its quaint mullioned windows , and its smooth lawn of velvet grass . It was built of red sandstone , the Deanery ...
... seen the elms whispering together over them , and heard the crows telling each other the history of the Deanery , with its quaint mullioned windows , and its smooth lawn of velvet grass . It was built of red sandstone , the Deanery ...
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... seen gilded boat and barge going up and down to Kew , Hampton Court , and Richmond . My love and I often sat in the twilight at an open window , and weaved together tales of lords and ladies who lived in the romantic days before ...
... seen gilded boat and barge going up and down to Kew , Hampton Court , and Richmond . My love and I often sat in the twilight at an open window , and weaved together tales of lords and ladies who lived in the romantic days before ...
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... seen the Dean of Wulstan in my father's studio before and spoken to him . But she was with him . Miss Oswald and Miss Ruth were there . It was Ruth who first met my gaze . I saw her eyes , and they seemed to throw my whole mind into ...
... seen the Dean of Wulstan in my father's studio before and spoken to him . But she was with him . Miss Oswald and Miss Ruth were there . It was Ruth who first met my gaze . I saw her eyes , and they seemed to throw my whole mind into ...
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... seen it in perfect repose . Now , influenced by the exercise of her genial temper , brought into action , lighted up in conversation , it was the face of a lovely girl made beautiful in the highest degree by a good and noble nature ...
... seen it in perfect repose . Now , influenced by the exercise of her genial temper , brought into action , lighted up in conversation , it was the face of a lovely girl made beautiful in the highest degree by a good and noble nature ...
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Page 526 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 486 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
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Page 691 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 162 - For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.
Page 685 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 800 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 456 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 328 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 284 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.