Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 16Macmillan and Company, 1867 |
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... tell me that the piece was detestable . I might perhaps get over this difficulty by supposing , though the supposition is not gratifying , that my taste is in a thoroughly morbid state , like the palate of a man in fever , or immature ...
... tell me that the piece was detestable . I might perhaps get over this difficulty by supposing , though the supposition is not gratifying , that my taste is in a thoroughly morbid state , like the palate of a man in fever , or immature ...
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... tell you why I run away from you . You knew everything about Sir Godfrey Mallory ; and you knew , and know , that I was innocent . My brother was a man so fierce and so strict that I feared his anger , particularly after Miss Raylock ...
... tell you why I run away from you . You knew everything about Sir Godfrey Mallory ; and you knew , and know , that I was innocent . My brother was a man so fierce and so strict that I feared his anger , particularly after Miss Raylock ...
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... tell you , and I know , that there is no one whom the Squire loves as he does the Colonel . The Colonel is steady enough now , and has had his lesson . The Squire is quite sick of Arthur , and besides , Arthur has fits ,. and bullies ...
... tell you , and I know , that there is no one whom the Squire loves as he does the Colonel . The Colonel is steady enough now , and has had his lesson . The Squire is quite sick of Arthur , and besides , Arthur has fits ,. and bullies ...
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... tell you , " said Boginsky . " It will not work at all . The committees won't 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 ...
... tell you , " said Boginsky . " It will not work at all . The committees won't 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 ...
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... tell me if I seem likely to suit you as a travelling companion or not . ” " I can tell you that at once , sir . We shall be honoured and favoured by your company . I rather think that we are a little too young to do entirely without ...
... tell me if I seem likely to suit you as a travelling companion or not . ” " I can tell you that at once , sir . We shall be honoured and favoured by your company . I rather think that we are a little too young to do entirely without ...
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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,