Temple Bar, Volume 15Ward and Lock, 1865 |
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... head approvingly , and muttered , 666 Pierrepoint ! A good old Yorkshire name , Pierrepoint ! There was a Pierrepoint in my regiment , but he spelt his name with one r ; and , between you and me , he was rather looked down upon as a ...
... head approvingly , and muttered , 666 Pierrepoint ! A good old Yorkshire name , Pierrepoint ! There was a Pierrepoint in my regiment , but he spelt his name with one r ; and , between you and me , he was rather looked down upon as a ...
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... head thrown back upon the cushions and the edge of his newspaper resting upon the tip of his nose . No words can describe my disappointment as I looked round the room and saw how empty it was without my divinity . There was no sign of ...
... head thrown back upon the cushions and the edge of his newspaper resting upon the tip of his nose . No words can describe my disappointment as I looked round the room and saw how empty it was without my divinity . There was no sign of ...
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... head back upon the cushions of his chair , as if he had let his mind slip back to the past . , Musing thus , and nodding his head every now and then with a little sigh of assent , he let me talk of my life at home , and of all who ...
... head back upon the cushions of his chair , as if he had let his mind slip back to the past . , Musing thus , and nodding his head every now and then with a little sigh of assent , he let me talk of my life at home , and of all who ...
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... head , I scarcely think that I could love you less , so little within my own volition is the one absorbing sentiment that has become the first principle of my life . Forgive me for introducing your name into this record , which I had ...
... head , I scarcely think that I could love you less , so little within my own volition is the one absorbing sentiment that has become the first principle of my life . Forgive me for introducing your name into this record , which I had ...
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... head ached , and my cramped hand would scarcely form the characters upon the page before me . I left off at last from sheer exhaustion , and taking a volume at random from the pile of books before me , I began to read . SIR JASPER'S ...
... head ached , and my cramped hand would scarcely form the characters upon the page before me . I left off at last from sheer exhaustion , and taking a volume at random from the pile of books before me , I began to read . SIR JASPER'S ...
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Page 103 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen.
Page 476 - Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Page 252 - Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing.
Page 406 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.
Page 402 - RED o'er the forest peers the setting sun. The line of yellow light dies fast away That crowned the eastern copse : and chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Page 95 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 104 - tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep, or where d'ye dine? I find by all you have been telling, That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling.
Page 97 - The Wicklow hills are very high, And so's the Hill of Howth, sir; But there's a hill, much bigger still, Much higher nor them both, sir: 'Twas on the top of this high hill St.
Page 100 - O ye spires of Oxford ! domes and towers ! Gardens and groves! your presence overpowers The soberness of reason; till, in sooth, Transformed, and rushing on a bold exchange, I slight my own beloved Cam, to range Where silver Isis leads my stripling feet; Pace the long avenue, or glide adown The stream- like windings of that glorious street — An eager Novice robed in fluttering gown ! 1810.
Page 239 - Altogether at least a score of pigeons might be chosen, which if shown to an ornithologist, and he were told that they were wild birds, would certainly, I think, be ranked by him as well-defined species.