New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 211900 |
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Page 108
... live happily , for that was better than having a " statue of pure gold " erected to you ! In the meantime secrecy , so long as Vincent wished to play Romeo and Juliet , was her cue ; therefore , the more she could blind old Akhbar , the ...
... live happily , for that was better than having a " statue of pure gold " erected to you ! In the meantime secrecy , so long as Vincent wished to play Romeo and Juliet , was her cue ; therefore , the more she could blind old Akhbar , the ...
Page 127
... lives " -rather ashamed of his poetic flight . " I only hope it will last out . " 66 There are a good many matches in a box , " with a sudden descent to prose . " If the first doesn't hit it off , you can try another , " with a laugh ...
... lives " -rather ashamed of his poetic flight . " I only hope it will last out . " 66 There are a good many matches in a box , " with a sudden descent to prose . " If the first doesn't hit it off , you can try another , " with a laugh ...
Page 135
... lives - so many lives more beautiful and capable than any which the Dutch Republic have yet been able to breed - that I find it impossible to speak soberly of the circumstances in which they have been lost to us . Yet has it been done ...
... lives - so many lives more beautiful and capable than any which the Dutch Republic have yet been able to breed - that I find it impossible to speak soberly of the circumstances in which they have been lost to us . Yet has it been done ...
Page 143
... live . man who wishes to live comfortably by the standard of his friends and his wife's friends , to educate his sons as gentlemen , and generally to present a smiling face to the world , must have an income of about ten times the ...
... live . man who wishes to live comfortably by the standard of his friends and his wife's friends , to educate his sons as gentlemen , and generally to present a smiling face to the world , must have an income of about ten times the ...
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... lives , hid their precious burden in their pilgrims ' staves , and presented them to the Emperor Justinian , was a subject that appealed strongly to our artist's imagina- tion . This opening scene in the history of an important industry ...
... lives , hid their precious burden in their pilgrims ' staves , and presented them to the Emperor Justinian , was a subject that appealed strongly to our artist's imagina- tion . This opening scene in the history of an important industry ...
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Page 237 - ... thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 239 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 219 - O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill: The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Page 567 - That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal, Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
Page 239 - Firdaus rue zamtn ast — hamin ast to, hamin ast to, hamin ast (If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this).
Page 231 - With the preparation and maintenance of schemes of offensive and defensive operations ; the collection and distribution of information relating to the military geography, resources, and armed forces of foreign countries, and of the British Colonies and possessions.
Page 138 - I had thought of the Lycidas as of a full-grown beauty — as springing up with all its parts absolute — till, in an evil hour, I was shown the original copy of it, together with the other minor poems of its author, in the library of Trinity, kept like some treasure, to be proud of. I wish they had thrown them in the Cam, or sent them after the latter Cantos of Spenser, into the Irish Channel. How it staggered me to see the fine things in their...
Page 233 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 240 - The throne itself was six feet long by four feet broad; it stood on six massive feet, which, with the body, were of solid gold, inlaid with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was surmounted by a canopy of gold, supported by twelve pillars, all richly emblazoned with costly gems, and a fringe of pearls ornamented the borders of the canopy. Between the two peacocks stood the figure of a parrot of the ordinary size, said to have been carved out of a single emerald.
Page 240 - Bordeaux, who, after defrauding several of the Princes " of Europe by means of false gems which he fabricated with " great skill, sought refuge at the court of Shah Jehan, " where he made his fortune and was in high favour with