Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... interest in his behalf that good St. Antonio of Padua , who was so charitable , and perhaps might not be so particular about a That death so clear and Peter ; for Sora Antonia was kind to the bottom of her heart , and could not bear to ...
... interest in his behalf that good St. Antonio of Padua , who was so charitable , and perhaps might not be so particular about a That death so clear and Peter ; for Sora Antonia was kind to the bottom of her heart , and could not bear to ...
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... interest , I shall remember with regret how much elo- quence and wit , how much acuteness and knowledge , how many engaging qualities , how many fair hopes , are buried in the grave of poor Charles Buller . " Later , another ...
... interest , I shall remember with regret how much elo- quence and wit , how much acuteness and knowledge , how many engaging qualities , how many fair hopes , are buried in the grave of poor Charles Buller . " Later , another ...
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... interest in the memory of bright days that are gone , of daily rambles and evening meetings , of times when they walked and talked with single - hearted friends in scenes hallowed by many memories and tra- ditions - or by the banks of ...
... interest in the memory of bright days that are gone , of daily rambles and evening meetings , of times when they walked and talked with single - hearted friends in scenes hallowed by many memories and tra- ditions - or by the banks of ...
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... interest , but it is the sort of interest we should feel in seeing one of the vast creatures of a prior epoch of the world suddenly come to live among us . We recognise his greatness , we wonder at the strength of his thews and the ...
... interest , but it is the sort of interest we should feel in seeing one of the vast creatures of a prior epoch of the world suddenly come to live among us . We recognise his greatness , we wonder at the strength of his thews and the ...
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... interest in my welfare , whether moral or material , I take to be of the most ordinary kind , have shown at many periods an otherwise unaccount- able desire to persuade me that they are right , and that I and the rest of the world are ...
... interest in my welfare , whether moral or material , I take to be of the most ordinary kind , have shown at many periods an otherwise unaccount- able desire to persuade me that they are right , and that I and the rest of the world are ...
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Page 91 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 223 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Page 15 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; "Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Page 100 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 25 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 23 - What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty...
Page 25 - How sweet I roamed from field to field And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!
Page 223 - Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation.
Page 234 - A boy and a girl, if the good fates please, Making love, say, — The happier they ! Draw yourself up from the light of the moon, And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers...
Page 325 - ... tea-table talk— such as mending of fashions, spoiling reputations, railing at absent friends, and so forth— but that on no account you encroach upon the men's prerogative, and presume to drink healths, or toast fellows...