Macmillan's Magazine, 45. köideMacmillan and Company, 1882 |
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... perhaps you won't return . " Isabel for a moment said nothing , then- " Perhaps I shall find another , " she rejoined . " You will certainly never find a good one . " " In default of a better , my having promised will do , " Isabel ...
... perhaps you won't return . " Isabel for a moment said nothing , then- " Perhaps I shall find another , " she rejoined . " You will certainly never find a good one . " " In default of a better , my having promised will do , " Isabel ...
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... perhaps , she was afraid ; if she began to regret , it might take her too far . Isabel could perceive , however , that it had come over her that she had missed some- thing , that she saw herself in the future as an old woman without ...
... perhaps , she was afraid ; if she began to regret , it might take her too far . Isabel could perceive , however , that it had come over her that she had missed some- thing , that she saw herself in the future as an old woman without ...
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... Perhaps I'm not right . in saying that just now ; of course you are not thinking of visiting . But I meant what would hardly be a visit . My sisters are to be at Lockleigh at Whitsuntide for three days ; and if you could come then - as ...
... Perhaps I'm not right . in saying that just now ; of course you are not thinking of visiting . But I meant what would hardly be a visit . My sisters are to be at Lockleigh at Whitsuntide for three days ; and if you could come then - as ...
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... perhaps would be an obstacle . As it is , you have nothing to consider . You must save what you can of your life ; you mustn't lose it all simply because you have lost a part . It would be an insult to you to assume that you care for ...
... perhaps would be an obstacle . As it is , you have nothing to consider . You must save what you can of your life ; you mustn't lose it all simply because you have lost a part . It would be an insult to you to assume that you care for ...
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... perhaps as much to enjoy the pure air and lovely view over the tree tops as for any other reason . Another flight of steps winding far in its difficult ascent conducts to a small temple on the very summit of the mountain . The building ...
... perhaps as much to enjoy the pure air and lovely view over the tree tops as for any other reason . Another flight of steps winding far in its difficult ascent conducts to a small temple on the very summit of the mountain . The building ...
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Page 76 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 54 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 306 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 161 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 491 - Jews to parliament and the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 321 - Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule ; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis due ; — Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue.
Page 161 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee!
Page 161 - Thus had the EVERLASTING No (das ewige Nein) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest.
Page 451 - I give you this charge that you shall be of my privy council, and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted by any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the State ; and that, without respect to my private will, you will give me that counsel which you think best...
Page 151 - The blue majestic everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears its head unsung), with Edinburgh at their base clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black venerable masses of stonework that stretch far and wide and show like a city of Fairyland.