The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... looks rather pompously round the room . The effect he has produced is not great , and , after some loud talking to hide his chagrin , he gradually subsides . Another enters with little less pretension , but more dignified silence ; he ...
... looks rather pompously round the room . The effect he has produced is not great , and , after some loud talking to hide his chagrin , he gradually subsides . Another enters with little less pretension , but more dignified silence ; he ...
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... look for nothing but amusement , may pardonably mistake our gravity for dulness ; we will join we will join them in a romp next time we meet . Even the crusty old gentleman , grown difficult to please , may gird at us on the other side ...
... look for nothing but amusement , may pardonably mistake our gravity for dulness ; we will join we will join them in a romp next time we meet . Even the crusty old gentleman , grown difficult to please , may gird at us on the other side ...
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... looks up with awe , and around with solemnity , and treads softly on the cold blank pavement as he approaches the place of service . If it be a private Anglican church instead of a cathedral , he already sees the altar , railed off from ...
... looks up with awe , and around with solemnity , and treads softly on the cold blank pavement as he approaches the place of service . If it be a private Anglican church instead of a cathedral , he already sees the altar , railed off from ...
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... look at it was to be arrested ; and yet , what was it that arrested you ? No one point would be thought very remarkable ; but it was rather , that all the features seemed agreed to be happy in the service of the soul . In his case ...
... look at it was to be arrested ; and yet , what was it that arrested you ? No one point would be thought very remarkable ; but it was rather , that all the features seemed agreed to be happy in the service of the soul . In his case ...
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... look , as he passed around the cottage towards the summit of the hill ; and then pressed upward with hasty steps over the barren height , until he lost sight of his home , and began to descend towards the valleys which led to the scene ...
... look , as he passed around the cottage towards the summit of the hill ; and then pressed upward with hasty steps over the barren height , until he lost sight of his home , and began to descend towards the valleys which led to the scene ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...