Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 - Literature |
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... matter , because I had been told by Philippe that he had seen M. and Madame Evrart that day , and they were both quite well . At last I determined on trying to enter the house by another door . One side of the garden was protected from ...
... matter , because I had been told by Philippe that he had seen M. and Madame Evrart that day , and they were both quite well . At last I determined on trying to enter the house by another door . One side of the garden was protected from ...
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... matter . But joy to the man who has a welcome home , and faces the old familiar work with fresh and buoyant heart ... matters look from without . The whole of a scheme reveals itself : we see the tendency of some favourite plan ; we ...
... matter . But joy to the man who has a welcome home , and faces the old familiar work with fresh and buoyant heart ... matters look from without . The whole of a scheme reveals itself : we see the tendency of some favourite plan ; we ...
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... matter this time ; and the whole twenty have been sent , I trust , and no instalment . ' ' I am perfectly certain , sir , that they have all been sent this time . Good - morning , sir ; you will find them all at home . ' As a matter of ...
... matter this time ; and the whole twenty have been sent , I trust , and no instalment . ' ' I am perfectly certain , sir , that they have all been sent this time . Good - morning , sir ; you will find them all at home . ' As a matter of ...
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... matter of course , go to synagogue - he did not even attend when the names of his poor parents were mentioned among the dead ! ' On the last night of the festival the girl had appointed to receive him in her own room , but as she could ...
... matter of course , go to synagogue - he did not even attend when the names of his poor parents were mentioned among the dead ! ' On the last night of the festival the girl had appointed to receive him in her own room , but as she could ...
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... matter between Him and you . The Lord is just . ' ' Rabbi , ' replied Aaron , ' I cannot talk with God . I can address Him ; but even before my sin I was not worthy of hearing His voice , as did Moses and the prophets . I come to you ...
... matter between Him and you . The Lord is just . ' ' Rabbi , ' replied Aaron , ' I cannot talk with God . I can address Him ; but even before my sin I was not worthy of hearing His voice , as did Moses and the prophets . I come to you ...
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Page 92 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!
Page 92 - Yet there is time!" At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past; And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last. With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Page 93 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace - all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech.
Page 93 - That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra' Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra
Page 92 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Page 94 - At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe...
Page 92 - The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at his sermon on the mount, Saint Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables . . . but I know Ye mark me not!
Page 93 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Page 93 - Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Page 92 - And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...