Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 59W & R Chambers, 1882 |
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... lady , who carried a sun - shade , and carried it in such a position that her face was hidden . The Now , Gerard knew , or supposed he knew , everybody who kept a carriage within ten miles ; but this equipage was strange to him . A ...
... lady , who carried a sun - shade , and carried it in such a position that her face was hidden . The Now , Gerard knew , or supposed he knew , everybody who kept a carriage within ten miles ; but this equipage was strange to him . A ...
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... lady's eyes regarded him with demure admiration for a second , and then she hid herself with her sunshade , and the sun seemed shaded from Gerard's eyes . It is very natural for young men of five - and- twenty to fall in love ; and it ...
... lady's eyes regarded him with demure admiration for a second , and then she hid herself with her sunshade , and the sun seemed shaded from Gerard's eyes . It is very natural for young men of five - and- twenty to fall in love ; and it ...
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... lady would remember him . He was absent - minded and silent through the quiet family dinner that evening , though Cupid's butt - shaft did not yet so rankle in him as to spoil his appetite . His mother , a sedate lady of six - and ...
... lady would remember him . He was absent - minded and silent through the quiet family dinner that evening , though Cupid's butt - shaft did not yet so rankle in him as to spoil his appetite . His mother , a sedate lady of six - and ...
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... lady he had seen in the lane . Then remembering Milly's description of Jolly père as a little man with a face like a Normandy pippin - brown and shrivelled , he decided that this was not the father . The little man was bald enough to ...
... lady he had seen in the lane . Then remembering Milly's description of Jolly père as a little man with a face like a Normandy pippin - brown and shrivelled , he decided that this was not the father . The little man was bald enough to ...
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... lady's letter . ' Ethel's epistle studiously shows the ' lady's letter ' characteristics - except the precious post- script . Miss Straitlace is known to consider postscripts the mark of a mind wanting in order and method , particularly ...
... lady's letter . ' Ethel's epistle studiously shows the ' lady's letter ' characteristics - except the precious post- script . Miss Straitlace is known to consider postscripts the mark of a mind wanting in order and method , particularly ...
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Page 92 - Thy Father has written for thee.' 'Come, wander with me,' she said, 'Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.' And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 60 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires: — Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Page 298 - If any one doubts the importance of an acquaintance with the fundamental principles of physiology as a means to complete living, let him look around and see how many men and women he can find in middle or later life who are thoroughly well.
Page 100 - THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead.
Page 294 - ... busy that he has no leisure to laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, and more money, that he may still get more and more money; he is still drudging on, and says, that Solomon says, " The diligent hand maketh rich...
Page 117 - I persuaded them at last to kneel down and make a large ring, which they did. I prayed with them near an hour, when I was almost spent with the heat of the sun, and the exercise.
Page 351 - Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him, the fountain of all loveliness, and drink it in, simply and earnestly, with all your eyes; it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing.
Page 400 - CHALLENGE. — I, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Clerkenwell, ^ having had some words with Hannah Hyfield, and requiring satisfaction, do invite her to meet me upon the stage, and box me for three guineas ; each woman holding half-a-crown in each hand, and the first woman that drops the money to lose the battle.
Page 294 - Nay, let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our estates, that would give the greatest part of it to be healthful and cheerful like us ; who, with the expense of a little money, have eat and drank, and laughed, and angled, and sung, and slept, securely ; and rose next day, and cast away care, and sung, and laughed, and angled again...
Page 99 - The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail : The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail.