Longman's Magazine, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1883 |
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... called accomplished . It was a marriage of convenience ; but the old man had been kind to her in life and death , and she respected his memory . When she married her second husband , John Beckett , the railway engineer , she dropped her ...
... called accomplished . It was a marriage of convenience ; but the old man had been kind to her in life and death , and she respected his memory . When she married her second husband , John Beckett , the railway engineer , she dropped her ...
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... called them without the faintest consciousness of self- satire its ' grasp ' -to contracts ; mostly in connection with coal . He took the same practical view of matrimony , which poor Lady Orr had never guessed , and for her part had ...
... called them without the faintest consciousness of self- satire its ' grasp ' -to contracts ; mostly in connection with coal . He took the same practical view of matrimony , which poor Lady Orr had never guessed , and for her part had ...
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... called a most damaging witness . Uncle Ralph is a martyr to fashion . His boots and , what is worse , his waistcoats are a size too small for him . He dines out continually - here , for example - where he can get no smoke after dinner ...
... called a most damaging witness . Uncle Ralph is a martyr to fashion . His boots and , what is worse , his waistcoats are a size too small for him . He dines out continually - here , for example - where he can get no smoke after dinner ...
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... called a molecule . The ultimate parts of all compound bodies are molecules . A molecule of water , for example , consists of two atoms of hydrogen , which grasp and are grasped by one atom of oxygen . When water is converted into steam ...
... called a molecule . The ultimate parts of all compound bodies are molecules . A molecule of water , for example , consists of two atoms of hydrogen , which grasp and are grasped by one atom of oxygen . When water is converted into steam ...
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... called chemical rays - a misleading term ; for , as Draper and others have taught us , the rays that produce the grandest chemical effects in nature , by decomposing the carbonic acid and water which form the nutriment of plants , are ...
... called chemical rays - a misleading term ; for , as Draper and others have taught us , the rays that produce the grandest chemical effects in nature , by decomposing the carbonic acid and water which form the nutriment of plants , are ...
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Página 666 - ... lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Página 669 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Página 664 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 69 - IN anything fit. to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.
Página 588 - Moreover, his marvellous coolness and daring in hob-andnobbing with the hangman, under the unprecedented circumstances of the shepherd's party, won their admiration. So that it may be questioned if all those who ostensibly made themselves so busy in exploring woods and fields and lanes were quite so thorough when it came to the private examination of their own lofts and outhouses. Stories were afloat of a mysterious figure being occasionally seen in some old overgrown trackway or other, remote from...
Página 669 - My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Página 584 - tis as much as my legs will do to take me that far. Going the same way ?' 'No, I am sorry to say! I have to get home over there' (he nodded indefinitely to the right), 'and I feel as you do, that it is quite enough for my legs to do before bedtime.
Página 307 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Página 170 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 580 - My tools are but common ones, Simple shepherds all — My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me ! Shepherd Fennel glanced round. There was no longer any doubt that the stranger was answering his question rhythmically. The guests one and all started back with suppressed exclamations. The young woman engaged to the man of fifty fainted half-way, and would have proceeded, but finding him wanting in alacrity for catching her she sat...