The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 23-24Ward and Lock, 1867 - Literature |
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... meet the manager's inquiring glances those wild , beseeching eyes , which told the story of her misery so eloquently in their dark , silent depths . And the practised eye of Hilton took in at a glance the details of the stranger's ...
... meet the manager's inquiring glances those wild , beseeching eyes , which told the story of her misery so eloquently in their dark , silent depths . And the practised eye of Hilton took in at a glance the details of the stranger's ...
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... meet To hear the knell Of ghastly death in that calm peal , Which haply may my pardon seal ; While rest in my heart's core I feel , Dear Sabbath Bells . " Come , wearied , rest ; " ye seem to chime ; " " Forget for aye your sin and ...
... meet To hear the knell Of ghastly death in that calm peal , Which haply may my pardon seal ; While rest in my heart's core I feel , Dear Sabbath Bells . " Come , wearied , rest ; " ye seem to chime ; " " Forget for aye your sin and ...
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... meet cutting words of scorn , to find his prospects sneered at , his hopes blasted , his love thrust coldly back upon him . Words of reproach for tones of love , bitter scorn to answer the hopes of a new fortune , cold incredulity to meet ...
... meet cutting words of scorn , to find his prospects sneered at , his hopes blasted , his love thrust coldly back upon him . Words of reproach for tones of love , bitter scorn to answer the hopes of a new fortune , cold incredulity to meet ...
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... meet the mother's caresses . For a moment he stood ir- resolute , then he went to the bed , and putting his arm under the child's head , turned the pale face to meet his own . " Johnny , " the gentle tone made the child look up in glad ...
... meet the mother's caresses . For a moment he stood ir- resolute , then he went to the bed , and putting his arm under the child's head , turned the pale face to meet his own . " Johnny , " the gentle tone made the child look up in glad ...
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... meet him . " I can't think what possesses Kate , doctor . She will not admit that she is sick , but has re- fused to see any callers to - day , and about an bour ago insisted upon sending for you . She wishes to see you alone ! ' One ...
... meet him . " I can't think what possesses Kate , doctor . She will not admit that she is sick , but has re- fused to see any callers to - day , and about an bour ago insisted upon sending for you . She wishes to see you alone ! ' One ...
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Page 316 - How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot , the cultivated farm , The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Page 24 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 120 - 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 44 - New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray — New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Page 61 - Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 17 - TO THE MUSES. WHETHER on Ida's shady brow Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the Sun, that now From ancient melody have ceased ; Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 17 - ... the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : "Pipe a song about a Lamb !
Page 131 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 22 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.