The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 36A.H. Moxon, 1879 |
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... seen quietly coming up the opposite road . It was not long before the attention of all present became attracted towards the unknown and foreign looking man arriving with the Berringtons - who were known to everybody — and preparing to ...
... seen quietly coming up the opposite road . It was not long before the attention of all present became attracted towards the unknown and foreign looking man arriving with the Berringtons - who were known to everybody — and preparing to ...
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... seen her carry you to day . " Whether this was meant as a compliment to the Vicomte's riding , or to the mare's perfect going under a man who could not ride a bit , was difficult to decide from the speaker's tone . As was to be expected ...
... seen her carry you to day . " Whether this was meant as a compliment to the Vicomte's riding , or to the mare's perfect going under a man who could not ride a bit , was difficult to decide from the speaker's tone . As was to be expected ...
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... seen the fox . The latter , evidently an old stager versed in the art of saving his brush by his heels , had , after taking breath in the spinny , been seen going best pace , but at a safe distance from his pursuers , and by an artful ...
... seen the fox . The latter , evidently an old stager versed in the art of saving his brush by his heels , had , after taking breath in the spinny , been seen going best pace , but at a safe distance from his pursuers , and by an artful ...
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... seen in his hastening to ask her hand for the following quadrille . Round dances were too much for him , besides which the quadrille is the conversational dance par excellence , and conversation was his object . His request having been ...
... seen in his hastening to ask her hand for the following quadrille . Round dances were too much for him , besides which the quadrille is the conversational dance par excellence , and conversation was his object . His request having been ...
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... seen Juliana ? " Mrs. Leadstone asked some- what impatiently . " I have been looking for her myself , " she answered evasively , " to propose a duet . " All this time she was endeavouring to draw Mrs. Leadstone away from the ...
... seen Juliana ? " Mrs. Leadstone asked some- what impatiently . " I have been looking for her myself , " she answered evasively , " to propose a duet . " All this time she was endeavouring to draw Mrs. Leadstone away from the ...
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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.