Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 16Macmillan and Company, 1867 |
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... sure that I am not going to give you to - night any of those dogmatic judgments which professed artists or critics have perhaps a right to give . I am an humble inquirer in this field , wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than ...
... sure that I am not going to give you to - night any of those dogmatic judgments which professed artists or critics have perhaps a right to give . I am an humble inquirer in this field , wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than ...
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... sure of that , " said Kriegs- thurm , " I am getting so sick of the whole business , and more particularly of the Silcote complication , that I almost wish you had followed the instructions of the democratic committee , and put a bullet ...
... sure of that , " said Kriegs- thurm , " I am getting so sick of the whole business , and more particularly of the Silcote complication , that I almost wish you had followed the instructions of the democratic committee , and put a bullet ...
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... sure ' at all . That miserable tentative word ' surely ' exasperates me . It is one of the wretched phrases by which a fourth- class press writer rigs his opinion . Don't use it again . " " I will not , sir . You are not angry with me ...
... sure ' at all . That miserable tentative word ' surely ' exasperates me . It is one of the wretched phrases by which a fourth- class press writer rigs his opinion . Don't use it again . " " I will not , sir . You are not angry with me ...
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... sure forerunner , the first commencement of rapid national decay . It is by bridging the gulf of separation , by reuniting the severed sympathies , and rekindling the earnestness of personal goodwill between the estranged orders , that ...
... sure forerunner , the first commencement of rapid national decay . It is by bridging the gulf of separation , by reuniting the severed sympathies , and rekindling the earnestness of personal goodwill between the estranged orders , that ...
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... sure he " was incapable of it . But suppose I " had done so ? ' It is impossible ; I " will never believe it . ' ' I have done " it . ' ' No ' My alarm increased , " but I still absolutely refused to believe " it . ' Shall I quote a ...
... sure he " was incapable of it . But suppose I " had done so ? ' It is impossible ; I " will never believe it . ' ' I have done " it . ' ' No ' My alarm increased , " but I still absolutely refused to believe " it . ' Shall I quote a ...
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Popular passages
Page 231 - 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 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - 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 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - 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 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... 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 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,