The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 23-24Ward and Lock, 1867 - Literature |
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... strange woman , in whom so much of the hereafter of Grantley is to be wrapped up . My friends will remember that some chapters ago I described this woman deliberating as to what her future life was to be , in the midst of her misery ...
... strange woman , in whom so much of the hereafter of Grantley is to be wrapped up . My friends will remember that some chapters ago I described this woman deliberating as to what her future life was to be , in the midst of her misery ...
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... strange people , but this strange woman , with her wild eyes and immense talent for act- ing , he could not make out at all . " She seemed to play the thing as if it was her own life , " he mused . " No fear of my missing Vertot at all ...
... strange people , but this strange woman , with her wild eyes and immense talent for act- ing , he could not make out at all . " She seemed to play the thing as if it was her own life , " he mused . " No fear of my missing Vertot at all ...
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... strange to her , the stage directions so complicated and puzzling , that she wondered she did not break down before the enquiring gaze of the company , | who scanned her every movement ; but , like many other things , theatrical puzzles ...
... strange to her , the stage directions so complicated and puzzling , that she wondered she did not break down before the enquiring gaze of the company , | who scanned her every movement ; but , like many other things , theatrical puzzles ...
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... strange thrill of pain through his heart . The rain still fell heavily , but he found the stately home of the heiress filled with a gay throng of visitors . Mrs. Reynolds , in full dress , came into the hall to meet him . " I can't ...
... strange thrill of pain through his heart . The rain still fell heavily , but he found the stately home of the heiress filled with a gay throng of visitors . Mrs. Reynolds , in full dress , came into the hall to meet him . " I can't ...
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... strange gleam shot from them just for an instant , and a short , gasping sigh broke from between his closed lips . " What ails Will ? " asked one of his com- panions . " He is about as good company as a corpse at a wake . Has the old ...
... strange gleam shot from them just for an instant , and a short , gasping sigh broke from between his closed lips . " What ails Will ? " asked one of his com- panions . " He is about as good company as a corpse at a wake . Has the old ...
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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.