Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 56Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... Lady Brenda was five and forty years of age - with extenuating cir- cumstances . A German wit once remarked that money alone does not constitute happiness , but that it is also necessary to possess some of it . So years alone do not ...
... Lady Brenda was five and forty years of age - with extenuating cir- cumstances . A German wit once remarked that money alone does not constitute happiness , but that it is also necessary to possess some of it . So years alone do not ...
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... Lady Brenda was very fond of Augustus Chard , but considered him more than half a visionary . Gwendoline , on the other hand , was willing to spend her time in helping him to demonstrate that all existing things and conditions of things ...
... Lady Brenda was very fond of Augustus Chard , but considered him more than half a visionary . Gwendoline , on the other hand , was willing to spend her time in helping him to demonstrate that all existing things and conditions of things ...
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... Lady Brenda , whose mind took a practical turn , suggested that , as times and governments change rather quickly nowadays , it would be as well to keep the parchment and see what came of it . The party arrived at the appointed hour and ...
... Lady Brenda , whose mind took a practical turn , suggested that , as times and governments change rather quickly nowadays , it would be as well to keep the parchment and see what came of it . The party arrived at the appointed hour and ...
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... Lady Brenda . " Augustus will probably get his ghosts , too . " " For money ? " 66 Oh , I don't know ! Why should not ghosts be bribed , like other people ? " " If money were of any use where they live . " " It must be awfully funny to ...
... Lady Brenda . " Augustus will probably get his ghosts , too . " " For money ? " 66 Oh , I don't know ! Why should not ghosts be bribed , like other people ? " " If money were of any use where they live . " " It must be awfully funny to ...
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... Lady Brenda , " then we should all be equally charming . " " No man could stand that , " an- swered Augustus . " " " You would take refuge in the fourth dimension , then , I suppose ? ' asked Diana . " Like the bishop who said he tra ...
... Lady Brenda , " then we should all be equally charming . " " No man could stand that , " an- swered Augustus . " " " You would take refuge in the fourth dimension , then , I suppose ? ' asked Diana . " Like the bishop who said he tra ...
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Page 75 - 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.
Page 314 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 340 - 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 340 - 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 337 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 71 - 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 408 - 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.
Page 340 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 72 - And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element! O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.
Page 73 - Tis of the rushing of an host in rout, With groans, of trampled men, with smarting wounds — At once they groan with pain, and shudder with the cold ! But hush ! there is a pause of deepest silence...