MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... , and had pre- sented her husband with a baby which was universally declared to be at all points the most extraordinary baby ever born , seen , or heard of . Mrs. Chard's name was Gwendoline . Lady Brenda , in the 2 With the Immortals .
... , and had pre- sented her husband with a baby which was universally declared to be at all points the most extraordinary baby ever born , seen , or heard of . Mrs. Chard's name was Gwendoline . Lady Brenda , in the 2 With the Immortals .
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... heard wonderful sounds answering the ringing chords of the piano . Just then Lady Brenda came in and looked briskly round the great room . 66 Really , Augustus has very good taste . Don't you think so ? " she said 4 With the Immortals .
... heard wonderful sounds answering the ringing chords of the piano . Just then Lady Brenda came in and looked briskly round the great room . 66 Really , Augustus has very good taste . Don't you think so ? " she said 4 With the Immortals .
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... heard of an earth- quake on this peninsula . There will very probably be one in Naples to- night . Take care , the stones are loose . Here we are . Now take a good look . I want you to stand here -so - facing the sea and turning a ...
... heard of an earth- quake on this peninsula . There will very probably be one in Naples to- night . Take care , the stones are loose . Here we are . Now take a good look . I want you to stand here -so - facing the sea and turning a ...
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... heard of Doctor Saul Ascher , " said Gwendoline . " Nor I , " echoed Augustus and the rest , all together . " He was much taiked of in his day - especially by himself , " said Heine . " His reputation suffered a mortal blow when he died ...
... heard of Doctor Saul Ascher , " said Gwendoline . " Nor I , " echoed Augustus and the rest , all together . " He was much taiked of in his day - especially by himself , " said Heine . " His reputation suffered a mortal blow when he died ...
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... heard that any one has died recently who greatly re- sembles him . He has taken the place of Bonaparte in my estimation , since I made his acquaintance . " 66 Perhaps you will change your mind again , " suggested Lady Brenda , hoping to ...
... heard that any one has died recently who greatly re- sembles him . He has taken the place of Bonaparte in my estimation , since I made his acquaintance . " 66 Perhaps you will change your mind again , " suggested Lady Brenda , hoping to ...
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Page 432 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Page 352 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 87 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
Page 420 - And in far other scenes! For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 185 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 352 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 83 - Tis of a little child Upon a lonesome wild, Not far from home, but she hath lost her way: And now moans low in bitter grief and fear, And now screams loud, and hopes to make her mother hear.
Page 81 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 82 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 85 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.