Temple Bar, Volume 39George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1873 - English periodicals |
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Page 70
... felt a slight move- ment . " My child is not dead ! " she shrieked . " Her heart beats ! " The little girl was put back into bed , and in a few days was restored to health . By what trifles are the destinies of men and of nations ...
... felt a slight move- ment . " My child is not dead ! " she shrieked . " Her heart beats ! " The little girl was put back into bed , and in a few days was restored to health . By what trifles are the destinies of men and of nations ...
Page 76
... felt her power , and gra- dually withdrew from the mother all control over the management of the children , refusing to take any orders concerning them except from the King himself . By - and - by she 76 MADAME DE MAINTENON ,
... felt her power , and gra- dually withdrew from the mother all control over the management of the children , refusing to take any orders concerning them except from the King himself . By - and - by she 76 MADAME DE MAINTENON ,
Page 93
... felt more disconcerted and out of place than Talman did amongst the harpies in whose presence he found himself . " Yes , " said Talman , " it is rather strange to me . " The little man sidled up to the supper - table NEXT DOOR ...
... felt more disconcerted and out of place than Talman did amongst the harpies in whose presence he found himself . " Yes , " said Talman , " it is rather strange to me . " The little man sidled up to the supper - table NEXT DOOR ...
Page 95
... felt so uncomfortable as he did invariably at the sight of this red - haired gentleman . " Good morning , " said the little man , and he hurried across the square , taking a path that did not lead to proximity with the red- haired ...
... felt so uncomfortable as he did invariably at the sight of this red - haired gentleman . " Good morning , " said the little man , and he hurried across the square , taking a path that did not lead to proximity with the red- haired ...
Page 97
... felt for his revolver ; few people were at the moment in the street ; and if he laid a hand upon him the little man would without hesitation , as he afterwards expressed himself , " have made a small hole in his coat which no tailor ...
... felt for his revolver ; few people were at the moment in the street ; and if he laid a hand upon him the little man would without hesitation , as he afterwards expressed himself , " have made a small hole in his coat which no tailor ...
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Page 468 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 204 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Page 213 - Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have...
Page 245 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 204 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 205 - And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 213 - Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 54 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Page 214 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 212 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...