The Living Age, 213. köideLiving Age Company, 1897 |
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... turned toward the bye- road leading to Dene Hall . The others , the minority , followed as minorities do , because they distrusted themselves . Some one struck up a song with words lately published in the Northern Lid- erator , and set ...
... turned toward the bye- road leading to Dene Hall . The others , the minority , followed as minorities do , because they distrusted themselves . Some one struck up a song with words lately published in the Northern Lid- erator , and set ...
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... turned to the table where the match- box stood at his elbow , took it up , rat- tled it , and laid it down . He pressed the tobacco hard with his thumb , and , turning to Horner , said sharply : - Look at me - never a brief ; literary ...
... turned to the table where the match- box stood at his elbow , took it up , rat- tled it , and laid it down . He pressed the tobacco hard with his thumb , and , turning to Horner , said sharply : - Look at me - never a brief ; literary ...
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... turned in his chair , and sat with his elbows on his knees , his face resting on his closed fists , staring at the worn old hearth - rug . Thus they remained for some minutes . " What are you thinking asked Horner at length . " I have ...
... turned in his chair , and sat with his elbows on his knees , his face resting on his closed fists , staring at the worn old hearth - rug . Thus they remained for some minutes . " What are you thinking asked Horner at length . " I have ...
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... turned against us , we should assuredly have lost the Punjab , and probably the whole country north of it . The Sikhs had been conquered , and had passed from open hostility to equally sincere friendship . Throughout the Mutiny they ...
... turned against us , we should assuredly have lost the Punjab , and probably the whole country north of it . The Sikhs had been conquered , and had passed from open hostility to equally sincere friendship . Throughout the Mutiny they ...
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... turned to tell the tale in India . " From the fall of Delhi to the fall of Kabul and the relief of Kandahar there is com- pressed within a quarter of a century enough of daring achievement and de- termined conflict with overpowering ...
... turned to tell the tale in India . " From the fall of Delhi to the fall of Kabul and the relief of Kandahar there is com- pressed within a quarter of a century enough of daring achievement and de- termined conflict with overpowering ...
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Page 291 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 301 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 299 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 533 - While fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? — JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE.
Page 299 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 302 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 277 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 227 - Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms. And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 665 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Page 209 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.