The Twentieth Century, Volume 95Nineteenth Century and After, 1924 - English periodicals |
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... close intercourse and rapid communication , the good European observes the international scene , and in the troublous times of post - war perplexity the good citizen is concerned for the welfare of his country . At an early stage of the ...
... close intercourse and rapid communication , the good European observes the international scene , and in the troublous times of post - war perplexity the good citizen is concerned for the welfare of his country . At an early stage of the ...
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... close , but the Welsh are not quite so fierce , or perhaps they have more racial comity of tem- perament and manner . In the Scottish and Welsh constituencies the bossing is more determined , and the confrontation of the pit village ...
... close , but the Welsh are not quite so fierce , or perhaps they have more racial comity of tem- perament and manner . In the Scottish and Welsh constituencies the bossing is more determined , and the confrontation of the pit village ...
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... close together , apart from all the others . Each has a quaint inscription in abbreviated Latin , recording that ' This monument was placed here by Carthusians to a Carthusian . ' The names upon them are Gulielmus Makepeace Thackeray ...
... close together , apart from all the others . Each has a quaint inscription in abbreviated Latin , recording that ' This monument was placed here by Carthusians to a Carthusian . ' The names upon them are Gulielmus Makepeace Thackeray ...
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... close to Hyde Park Corner , and Thackeray asked me what I was doing , and where I was going , at that moment . I told him I had been at King's College School for two years , and was just going up to college after the vacation . I said I ...
... close to Hyde Park Corner , and Thackeray asked me what I was doing , and where I was going , at that moment . I told him I had been at King's College School for two years , and was just going up to college after the vacation . I said I ...
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... close his eyes and screw up his features as if suppressing a spasm of agony . It was this betrayal of ceaseless suffering , contrasting with his almost playful kindliness and cordiality to me , that filled me with sorrow for him as I ...
... close his eyes and screw up his features as if suppressing a spasm of agony . It was this betrayal of ceaseless suffering , contrasting with his almost playful kindliness and cordiality to me , that filled me with sorrow for him as I ...
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Page 415 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 730 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 415 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Page 701 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie!
Page 373 - Ghost. Do not forget. This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Page 113 - We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Page 384 - WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.
Page 442 - A Dandy is a Clotheswearing man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Page 725 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 72 - Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one.