MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 57Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1888 |
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... George Flack considered him , and indeed he looked older than he was . George Flack had found him sitting in the court of the hotel ( he sat a great deal in the court of the hotel ) , and had gone up to him with characteristic ...
... George Flack considered him , and indeed he looked older than he was . George Flack had found him sitting in the court of the hotel ( he sat a great deal in the court of the hotel ) , and had gone up to him with characteristic ...
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Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris. and as a mere passing suggestion , to deprecate explanations . " Any place is good where one meets old friends , " said George Flack , looking also at the newspapers . He ...
Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris. and as a mere passing suggestion , to deprecate explanations . " Any place is good where one meets old friends , " said George Flack , looking also at the newspapers . He ...
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... Flack continued sociably . And he observed , further , with the same friendliness " The old gentleman seems all there . " 66 ' Oh , he's the dearest of the dear . " " He's a real gentleman of the old stamp , " said George Flack . 66 ...
... Flack continued sociably . And he observed , further , with the same friendliness " The old gentleman seems all there . " 66 ' Oh , he's the dearest of the dear . " " He's a real gentleman of the old stamp , " said George Flack . 66 ...
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... George Flack . " Oh , that's not what the people want . " " No , unfortunately they don't care anything about my affairs . " " But " Well , we do : we are kinder , Francie and I , " said the girl . we desire to keep them quite distinct ...
... George Flack . " Oh , that's not what the people want . " " No , unfortunately they don't care anything about my affairs . " " But " Well , we do : we are kinder , Francie and I , " said the girl . we desire to keep them quite distinct ...
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... Flack's " job " -an interest which rested ap- parently upon an interest in the young man himself . The slightly sur ... George Flack was quite clever enough to seem a person of im- portance to Delia Dosson . He was connected ( as she ...
... Flack's " job " -an interest which rested ap- parently upon an interest in the young man himself . The slightly sur ... George Flack was quite clever enough to seem a person of im- portance to Delia Dosson . He was connected ( as she ...
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Page 204 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 81 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 431 - Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr.
Page 90 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
Page 31 - Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
Page 194 - My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement, like those which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure.
Page 48 - ... as ourselves. The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings must have borne the same general proportion to our own.
Page 443 - ... good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 247 - The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
Page 402 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...