The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 35A.H. Moxon, 1879 |
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... young person in question . " There's Geoff ! " Mrs. Aylesmere exclaimed , pressing the arm of Frank , whose eyes were fixed in a contrary direction from the steamer - to confess the truth , upon the identical petite Duhamel , recently ...
... young person in question . " There's Geoff ! " Mrs. Aylesmere exclaimed , pressing the arm of Frank , whose eyes were fixed in a contrary direction from the steamer - to confess the truth , upon the identical petite Duhamel , recently ...
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... young pianist . Ah ! Here comes Frank . " " Not coming , mother , but stopping to speak to your clever young pianist . Hullo , Frank ! Look sharp ! " " All right , " said Frank , hurrying away from the young person in question . " You ...
... young pianist . Ah ! Here comes Frank . " " Not coming , mother , but stopping to speak to your clever young pianist . Hullo , Frank ! Look sharp ! " " All right , " said Frank , hurrying away from the young person in question . " You ...
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... young artist to her house . She came thrice during Frank's stay , once accompanied by her eccentric step - father , on which latter occasion , it is needless to observe that the younger man devoutly wished the elder at Jericho . And ...
... young artist to her house . She came thrice during Frank's stay , once accompanied by her eccentric step - father , on which latter occasion , it is needless to observe that the younger man devoutly wished the elder at Jericho . And ...
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... young government employé might have been seen in his uncle's comfortable little dining - room - breakfast having been concluded - sitting across a smoking - chair , smoking one of his uncle's prime havannahs . Near him , the Colonel ...
... young government employé might have been seen in his uncle's comfortable little dining - room - breakfast having been concluded - sitting across a smoking - chair , smoking one of his uncle's prime havannahs . Near him , the Colonel ...
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... Young Old Miles and Old Young Lumley Berrington . The father , who appeared about forty , was , in fact , sixty - eight ; the son , who was only in his thirty- second year , might well have passed for double that age . Miles was light ...
... Young Old Miles and Old Young Lumley Berrington . The father , who appeared about forty , was , in fact , sixty - eight ; the son , who was only in his thirty- second year , might well have passed for double that age . Miles was light ...
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Page 364 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior nature; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in...
Page 505 - Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 331 - Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner...
Page 255 - Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias...
Page 331 - Thames' translucent wave Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave ; Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil, And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill ; Unpolished gems no ray on pride bestow, And latent metals innocently glow ; Approach ! Great Nature studiously behold, And eye the mine without a wish for gold. Approach— but awful ! Lo, the Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, ST. JOHN sat and thought, Where British sighs from dying WYNDHAM stole, And the bright flame was shot...
Page 364 - ... melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty.
Page 29 - Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; when I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
Page 336 - FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. HEROES and kings! your distance keep; In peace let one poor poet sleep, Who never flatter'd folks like you : Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Page 331 - ... their arms to meet each other, and growing nearer and nearer every hour ; the birds are paying their thanksgiving songs for the new habitations I have made them : my building rises high enough to attract the eye and curiosity of the passenger from the river, where, upon beholding a mixture of beauty and ruin, he...
Page 29 - And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.