Russell's Magazine, Volume 5Paul Hamilton Payne Walker, Evans & Company, 1859 - Literature, Modern |
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... young listener like Lady Mabel , eager to learn and quick to appre hend , two or three hours glided away in striking and agreeable con- trast with the more jovial and somewhat noisy festivities of yes- terday and many a previous day . L ...
... young listener like Lady Mabel , eager to learn and quick to appre hend , two or three hours glided away in striking and agreeable con- trast with the more jovial and somewhat noisy festivities of yes- terday and many a previous day . L ...
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... young a man ! It is certainly , too , very kind of him to give up his comfortable quarters to the Short- ridges , in their distress , particularly as I know he despises the man . " Now do not blunder on to the hasty conclusion , good ...
... young a man ! It is certainly , too , very kind of him to give up his comfortable quarters to the Short- ridges , in their distress , particularly as I know he despises the man . " Now do not blunder on to the hasty conclusion , good ...
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... young loafer , had neither hat nor cap ; his blue jacket was ornamented with a black patch on one elbow , and a gray one , on the other ; its first button , a black bone one , was fastened into the fourth but ten - hole whilst its ...
... young loafer , had neither hat nor cap ; his blue jacket was ornamented with a black patch on one elbow , and a gray one , on the other ; its first button , a black bone one , was fastened into the fourth but ten - hole whilst its ...
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... young lady next door , who had long perceived , by means of her " spy , " the perplexity of the fat gentleman , started in her chair , unpinned her work from her knee , opened the blind , and in- formed Mr. Bruis that no one was at home ...
... young lady next door , who had long perceived , by means of her " spy , " the perplexity of the fat gentleman , started in her chair , unpinned her work from her knee , opened the blind , and in- formed Mr. Bruis that no one was at home ...
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... young man unknown and unknowing , with nothing but a strong will to sustain him - he left home and family , in what appeared to all but himself , the hopeless pur- suit of knowledge , in a distant part of the State , that then seemed to ...
... young man unknown and unknowing , with nothing but a strong will to sustain him - he left home and family , in what appeared to all but himself , the hopeless pur- suit of knowledge , in a distant part of the State , that then seemed to ...
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Page 180 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 180 - Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not...
Page 94 - Telassar: in this pleasant soil His far more pleasant garden God ordained; Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold...
Page 92 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Page 96 - That all things which we see or work with in this Earth, especially we ourselves and all persons, are as a kind of vesture or sensuous Appearance : that under all there lies, as the essence of them, what he calls the ' Divine Idea of the World ;' this is the Reality which ' lies at the bottom of all Appearance.
Page 92 - The blue Bared its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile...
Page 548 - Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And...
Page 418 - In poetry, in which every line, every phrase, may pass the ordeal of deliberation and deliberate choice, it is possible, and barely possible, to attain that ultimatum which I have ventured to propose as the infallible test of a blameless style : namely, its untranslatableness in words of the same language, without injury to the meaning.
Page 92 - Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies : The ^Ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 545 - Clear thro' the open casement of the Hall, Singing ; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what kind of bird it is That sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture of the plumage and the form ; So the sweet voice of Enid moved Geraint...