MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 57Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1888 |
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... Style , Dr. ; by DR . BIRKBECK HILL Juana Alvarez .. Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea ; by COLONEL MAURICE Lemaitre's Serenus , and other tales Lessing's Dramatic Notes . Long Vacation , An Episode of the ; by ROLAND GRAHAM Mixed ...
... Style , Dr. ; by DR . BIRKBECK HILL Juana Alvarez .. Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea ; by COLONEL MAURICE Lemaitre's Serenus , and other tales Lessing's Dramatic Notes . Long Vacation , An Episode of the ; by ROLAND GRAHAM Mixed ...
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... style to which some might object , yet you will stand , to my mind , among the great performers on the violin . " I had never heard the old man utter such praise before . So Nor did I at first notice anything in the manner of the ...
... style to which some might object , yet you will stand , to my mind , among the great performers on the violin . " I had never heard the old man utter such praise before . So Nor did I at first notice anything in the manner of the ...
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... style will this require : Such stories should be plainly told : Gems never lose their strength or fire , Though tinsel settings may grow old . The heavens are clear and calm , when lo , A sudden voice rings through the night : Men ...
... style will this require : Such stories should be plainly told : Gems never lose their strength or fire , Though tinsel settings may grow old . The heavens are clear and calm , when lo , A sudden voice rings through the night : Men ...
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... style which banished the doating father from his daughter's table : the sordid features of the pension to which the extravagances of those daughters drove him the very stains and torn paper on the walls of the dining - room , the heavy ...
... style which banished the doating father from his daughter's table : the sordid features of the pension to which the extravagances of those daughters drove him the very stains and torn paper on the walls of the dining - room , the heavy ...
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... style , he may produce and maintain all the illusion of reality which is needed to give the full effect to his story . No doubt a very intimate and accu rate acquaintance with the history of the period may be effectual to break the ...
... style , he may produce and maintain all the illusion of reality which is needed to give the full effect to his story . No doubt a very intimate and accu rate acquaintance with the history of the period may be effectual to break the ...
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Page 204 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 81 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 431 - Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr.
Page 90 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
Page 31 - Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
Page 194 - My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement, like those which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure.
Page 48 - ... as ourselves. The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings must have borne the same general proportion to our own.
Page 443 - ... good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 247 - The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
Page 402 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...