Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 - England |
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... ment which could alone give to that dream the colours and the form of human life . " He could not again think of that fair creature as a prize that he might even dare to covet . And as he met her inquiring eyes , and saw her quivering ...
... ment which could alone give to that dream the colours and the form of human life . " He could not again think of that fair creature as a prize that he might even dare to covet . And as he met her inquiring eyes , and saw her quivering ...
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... ment , brilliant himself . With that matchless quickness which belongs to Parisians , the guests around him seized the new esprit de conversation which had been evoked between the statesman and the childlike girl beside him ; and as ...
... ment , brilliant himself . With that matchless quickness which belongs to Parisians , the guests around him seized the new esprit de conversation which had been evoked between the statesman and the childlike girl beside him ; and as ...
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... ment by the value of the end . But how are the results of marriage to be correctly measured ? We all know how difficult it is to make a definite opinion for ourselves on the point even in the case of the friends with whom we live in ...
... ment by the value of the end . But how are the results of marriage to be correctly measured ? We all know how difficult it is to make a definite opinion for ourselves on the point even in the case of the friends with whom we live in ...
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... ment of gratitude and love . But , alas ! these cases are exceptions . Most French people content them- selves , like their neighbours in other countries , with rumbling care- lessly through marriage , making no attempt to improve it ...
... ment of gratitude and love . But , alas ! these cases are exceptions . Most French people content them- selves , like their neighbours in other countries , with rumbling care- lessly through marriage , making no attempt to improve it ...
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... ment of the workings - out of mar- riage , they are open in another direction to a founded imputation , to which allusion has been already made , and which is almost graver still , because its application , instead of being exceptional ...
... ment of the workings - out of mar- riage , they are open in another direction to a founded imputation , to which allusion has been already made , and which is almost graver still , because its application , instead of being exceptional ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.