Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 56Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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Page 11
... whole time , had noticed nothing but the thunder . Augustus breathed freely , for he had feared that his electric storm might produce a serious convulsion in the prosaic mind of Bimbam . That catastrophe was averted , and the immediate ...
... whole time , had noticed nothing but the thunder . Augustus breathed freely , for he had feared that his electric storm might produce a serious convulsion in the prosaic mind of Bimbam . That catastrophe was averted , and the immediate ...
Page 12
... whole into couplets - very like strings of sausages in which mawled and chopped meat is forced into skins and tied up into appropriate lengths for quotation - I mean for the breakfast of an average strong man , and then hung up in long ...
... whole into couplets - very like strings of sausages in which mawled and chopped meat is forced into skins and tied up into appropriate lengths for quotation - I mean for the breakfast of an average strong man , and then hung up in long ...
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... whole world . He is of course disappointed : he dies fancy ing his life a failure ; and after he is dead he is surprised to find that no- body ever thought anything of his political capabilities , whereas he has earned immortality by ...
... whole world . He is of course disappointed : he dies fancy ing his life a failure ; and after he is dead he is surprised to find that no- body ever thought anything of his political capabilities , whereas he has earned immortality by ...
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... whole body of Carl's relations , saving the drowsy old grand- father , already lay buried beneath their expansive heraldries . At times the whole world almost seemed buried thus - made and re - made of the dead- its entire fabric of ...
... whole body of Carl's relations , saving the drowsy old grand- father , already lay buried beneath their expansive heraldries . At times the whole world almost seemed buried thus - made and re - made of the dead- its entire fabric of ...
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... whole of Europe sloped upwards . Through them , on the right hand as he jour- neyed on , were the doorways to Italy , to Como , or Verona : from yonder peak Italy's self was visible , as , on the left hand , in the South - German towns ...
... whole of Europe sloped upwards . Through them , on the right hand as he jour- neyed on , were the doorways to Italy , to Como , or Verona : from yonder peak Italy's self was visible , as , on the left hand , in the South - German towns ...
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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...