The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 36A.H. Moxon, 1879 |
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... performances of the majority of the field ; and the spectacle was not encouraging to him , for many were the cases he noted of separation between riders and horses , the former rising muddy , scratched , and battered , the latter ...
... performances of the majority of the field ; and the spectacle was not encouraging to him , for many were the cases he noted of separation between riders and horses , the former rising muddy , scratched , and battered , the latter ...
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... performance had by degrees attracted to the piano a little knot of the seniors and such juniors as were not dancing ; among others the Vicomte de Foix and Claude Cotherstone , who seated themselves near to and facing her . " Said I not ...
... performance had by degrees attracted to the piano a little knot of the seniors and such juniors as were not dancing ; among others the Vicomte de Foix and Claude Cotherstone , who seated themselves near to and facing her . " Said I not ...
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... performance at far greater length than was set down for her , probably playing the waltz thrice over , before , wearied herself , she turned to discover that she had wearied out all the dancers , Juliana and Frank included , although ...
... performance at far greater length than was set down for her , probably playing the waltz thrice over , before , wearied herself , she turned to discover that she had wearied out all the dancers , Juliana and Frank included , although ...
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... performance of his pro- fession ? Look at that man of business as he stands halting between two opinions uncertain whether to invest in a specu- lation which will either place at his command unbounded wealth or plunge him into the ...
... performance of his pro- fession ? Look at that man of business as he stands halting between two opinions uncertain whether to invest in a specu- lation which will either place at his command unbounded wealth or plunge him into the ...
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... performance of deeds of heroism , and acts of kind- ness which might have brought glory and honour on the heads of those from whom they emanated ; thus , not only wresting from deserving men the good name which they might other- wise ...
... performance of deeds of heroism , and acts of kind- ness which might have brought glory and honour on the heads of those from whom they emanated ; thus , not only wresting from deserving men the good name which they might other- wise ...
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Abraham Moss ACROSTIC actor answer appeared Ashton asked beautiful Belgrave Square believe better Claude Cotherstone Claude's course cried dark daughter Dean Church dear Decameron door English exclaimed eyes face Faerie Queene fancy father feel followed Gainsborough GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO girl give hand happy hear heard heart Heartly honour hope husband Juliana Kannyman kiss knew lady laughed Leadstone Leadstone's Lentworth live London looked Lord Fallowfield Louis Blanc Ludgate Hill Luttrel Marie Duhamel Mathew matter MERRITON MESOSTICH Middleford mind Miss Fenton morning mother never night once Otley Pearl Petrarch Philip Pierrefonds play poet pray pretty Priorie replied round Russia Screesman seemed silent smile sonnets speak Spenser Squire stage stood sure tell theatre theatrical thing thought tion told turned Vicomte voice wife wish woman word young
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Page 43 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 299 - The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land : And never home came she.
Page 303 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 49 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 115 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the waters' fall ; The waters' fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 115 - And all about old stocks and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruit nor leaf was ever seen, Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees ; On which had many wretches hanged been, Whose carcases were scattered on the green, And thrown about the cliffs.
Page 301 - Out of all the seas: But the black North-easter, Through the snowstorm hurled, Drives our English hearts of oak Seaward round the world. Come, as came our fathers...
Page 49 - We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
Page 115 - Disordred hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face ; through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound ; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dine.
Page 299 - Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.