Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 59W & R Chambers, 1882 |
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Page 48
... looked for , that , while stopping leaves , which will remain behind - the tea is or killing the ferment , will be harmless to the made . Sugar is added to taste , and lastly milk system ; and we find it in glycerine , which was and ...
... looked for , that , while stopping leaves , which will remain behind - the tea is or killing the ferment , will be harmless to the made . Sugar is added to taste , and lastly milk system ; and we find it in glycerine , which was and ...
Page 60
... looked as though she might have risen , like Aphrodite , from the white sea - foam , a creature of inspiration , and not of vulgar birth . No such fancies were likely to cluster around her brother , who was decidedly unromantic in ...
... looked as though she might have risen , like Aphrodite , from the white sea - foam , a creature of inspiration , and not of vulgar birth . No such fancies were likely to cluster around her brother , who was decidedly unromantic in ...
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... looked earnestly at it , whilst busy memory carried me back just half a century , to a bright moonlight night , and the bowling - green of a little country inn , and the terrible tragedy there enacted . Yes ; the more I looked , the ...
... looked earnestly at it , whilst busy memory carried me back just half a century , to a bright moonlight night , and the bowling - green of a little country inn , and the terrible tragedy there enacted . Yes ; the more I looked , the ...
Page 67
... looked up with a smile of recognition , and a hearty : ' Hullo ! here again , sir ? Why , what on earth do you see here , to make you come back again ? ' ' Not much , Mrs Thomson , truly , ' I replied , laying great stress upon her new ...
... looked up with a smile of recognition , and a hearty : ' Hullo ! here again , sir ? Why , what on earth do you see here , to make you come back again ? ' ' Not much , Mrs Thomson , truly , ' I replied , laying great stress upon her new ...
Page 69
... looked down upon the green sod that covered the heroic woman who had had The homage of a thousand hearts , The strong , deep love of one . I thought of that cheery face , those sparkling eyes , the genial smile , and the welcome voice ...
... looked down upon the green sod that covered the heroic woman who had had The homage of a thousand hearts , The strong , deep love of one . I thought of that cheery face , those sparkling eyes , the genial smile , and the welcome voice ...
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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.