Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 61Richard Bentley, 1867 - Literature |
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... live here . I prefer our dull Old Court . However , it is very pleasant to ride and drive upon the cliffs - to see so many brilliant equipages - and to meet hundreds of people whom one knows ; and I do so enjoy a gallop on the downs . I ...
... live here . I prefer our dull Old Court . However , it is very pleasant to ride and drive upon the cliffs - to see so many brilliant equipages - and to meet hundreds of people whom one knows ; and I do so enjoy a gallop on the downs . I ...
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... live on in peace and comfort , and go to the grave with an unblemished character , but I must be paid for my forbearance - handsomely paid . Do we say ' Agreed ' to that , Sir Hugh ? " " What do you require ? " demanded the baronet ...
... live on in peace and comfort , and go to the grave with an unblemished character , but I must be paid for my forbearance - handsomely paid . Do we say ' Agreed ' to that , Sir Hugh ? " " What do you require ? " demanded the baronet ...
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... live with mamma and me for ever . " And as the child put aside the thick curls of his hair in her play , Mrs. Norreys could not fail to remark the streaks of grey which had lately made their appearance there . She sighed as she thought ...
... live with mamma and me for ever . " And as the child put aside the thick curls of his hair in her play , Mrs. Norreys could not fail to remark the streaks of grey which had lately made their appearance there . She sighed as she thought ...
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... live . " " I thought I recollected the face , " replied his wife , " and I feel con- vinced that I shall not forget it again easily , or the strange wild ex- pression of her eyes . She was accompanied by a boy , whom she held tightly by ...
... live . " " I thought I recollected the face , " replied his wife , " and I feel con- vinced that I shall not forget it again easily , or the strange wild ex- pression of her eyes . She was accompanied by a boy , whom she held tightly by ...
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... lives of two different persons . The thoughts which the place now conjured up were of so painful a nature that it seemed to her as if she should never care to come there again ; and she left Wilmington with the feeling that , with her ...
... lives of two different persons . The thoughts which the place now conjured up were of so painful a nature that it seemed to her as if she should never care to come there again ; and she left Wilmington with the feeling that , with her ...
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Page 81 - Go, hang yourselves all ! you are idle, shallow things : I am not of your element : you shall know more hereafter. [Exit. Sir To. Is't possible ? Fab. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Page 81 - How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
Page 171 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 389 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Page 387 - The Housewife plied her own peculiar work, Making the cottage through the silent hours Murmur as with the sound of summer flies. This light was famous in its neighbourhood, And was a public symbol of the life , That thrifty Pair had lived.
Page 384 - Sanchez of Segovia and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the roundhouse the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain...
Page 385 - Universe ; or indissolubly joined to the whole ? Thou fool, that smithyfire was (primarily) kindled at the Sun; is fed by air that circulates from before Noah's Deluge, from beyond the Dogstar; therein, with Iron Force, and Coal Force, and the far stranger Force of Man, are cunning affinities and battles and victories of Force brought about; it is a little ganglion, or nervous centre, in the great vital system of Immensity.
Page 385 - The Man said, No. Then said the other, Do you see yonder shining light? He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto, so shalt thou see the Gate; at which when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.
Page 650 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 173 - When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ;Then lies him down the lubber fiend. And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.