The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 231A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1871 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... lady who leaned over the great open Prayer - book . I watched her parted lips in the responses , and the last sonorous sounds of the Amens seemed to linger about her and make her saint - like . My eyes would wander from hers to the ...
... lady who leaned over the great open Prayer - book . I watched her parted lips in the responses , and the last sonorous sounds of the Amens seemed to linger about her and make her saint - like . My eyes would wander from hers to the ...
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... lady fair , With torches burning bright , She thought to give Sir Gyles a drink , But found her own wed knight . " The picture has in it a splendid effect of torchlight , in which the lady's face comes out warm and bright and glowing ...
... lady fair , With torches burning bright , She thought to give Sir Gyles a drink , But found her own wed knight . " The picture has in it a splendid effect of torchlight , in which the lady's face comes out warm and bright and glowing ...
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... lady ; what's your will ? " " I have bethought me of a wile , How my wed lord we'll kill . " Four and twenty knights ... lady's plot , At which his heart doth bleed . " Be this true , my little foot - page , My lands I'll give to thee ...
... lady ; what's your will ? " " I have bethought me of a wile , How my wed lord we'll kill . " Four and twenty knights ... lady's plot , At which his heart doth bleed . " Be this true , my little foot - page , My lands I'll give to thee ...
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... lady fair , With torches burning bright ; She thought to give Sir Gyles a drink , But found her own wed knight . Straight fell he on that maid of Lyn , Daughter of the Mayor , And slew her with his vengeful sword , That lady young and ...
... lady fair , With torches burning bright ; She thought to give Sir Gyles a drink , But found her own wed knight . Straight fell he on that maid of Lyn , Daughter of the Mayor , And slew her with his vengeful sword , That lady young and ...
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... lady's face . She is evidently in fear of my lord with the sword . " " Just so , Miss Oswald , " said my father . " Let me give you a better subject , sir , " said Miss Oswald , sitting as calm as a statue , moving hardly a muscle of ...
... lady's face . She is evidently in fear of my lord with the sword . " " Just so , Miss Oswald , " said my father . " Let me give you a better subject , sir , " said Miss Oswald , sitting as calm as a statue , moving hardly a muscle of ...
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Page 642 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 707 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 708 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 707 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 701 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 816 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 328 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 284 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 490 - Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 489 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.