MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 20Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1869 |
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... better for me than many of the follies that one's teens are heir to - better than dancing and flirting into womanhood , buoyed up by the frothy admiration of raw young - manhood . It taught me to love , rather than to crave for being ...
... better for me than many of the follies that one's teens are heir to - better than dancing and flirting into womanhood , buoyed up by the frothy admiration of raw young - manhood . It taught me to love , rather than to crave for being ...
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... was a little disappointed that it was only the maid , but I got a message , at all events . " My lady wishes to know if you are better , Miss ? and , if you are , she will She herself not disturb you till noon . is always A Brave Lady . 13.
... was a little disappointed that it was only the maid , but I got a message , at all events . " My lady wishes to know if you are better , Miss ? and , if you are , she will She herself not disturb you till noon . is always A Brave Lady . 13.
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... better that its corpse should be buried out of sight : let there be no ridiculous shams kept up , but let a silence complete as that of the grave fall - between even child and parent , husband and wife . Still , as to forgetting ? Men ...
... better that its corpse should be buried out of sight : let there be no ridiculous shams kept up , but let a silence complete as that of the grave fall - between even child and parent , husband and wife . Still , as to forgetting ? Men ...
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... better not . Silently she locked up the trunk again ; then , with a tender carefulness , as if she were wrapping up a baby , laid the cushions over it , and , taking my hand , led me back to my room . " Now go to bed and to sleep , Wini ...
... better not . Silently she locked up the trunk again ; then , with a tender carefulness , as if she were wrapping up a baby , laid the cushions over it , and , taking my hand , led me back to my room . " Now go to bed and to sleep , Wini ...
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... better day is coming ; the mists of mediæval ignorance and superstition are being rapidly dissipated , and a respectable married clergy may in a generation or two stand on the altar- for in its own interests Rome must yield on this ...
... better day is coming ; the mists of mediæval ignorance and superstition are being rapidly dissipated , and a respectable married clergy may in a generation or two stand on the altar- for in its own interests Rome must yield on this ...
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Page 514 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 390 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again: Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Page 513 - Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 513 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 381 - Oh ! she was perfect, past all parallel — Of any modern female saint's comparison ; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison ; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison ; In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil...
Page 392 - This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive...
Page 515 - And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Page 391 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep; There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
Page 515 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 513 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.