Longman's Magazine, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1883 |
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... means averse to a third experi- ment in matrimony . ' There swam no goose so gray , ' they were wont to quote , and There was luck in odd numbers . ' Gossips will say anything , and men delight in jokes against the fair sex . There is ...
... means averse to a third experi- ment in matrimony . ' There swam no goose so gray , ' they were wont to quote , and There was luck in odd numbers . ' Gossips will say anything , and men delight in jokes against the fair sex . There is ...
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... means uttered in the same philosophic tone as the rest , and a faint red suffused the widow's cheeks . The colour too came into Mary Marvon's face , which was , however , averted from her patroness , as she answered ' I think so ...
... means uttered in the same philosophic tone as the rest , and a faint red suffused the widow's cheeks . The colour too came into Mary Marvon's face , which was , however , averted from her patroness , as she answered ' I think so ...
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... means looked on with disfavour by the lady of the house ; and indeed she treated none of his sex with such familiarity . His mother was a clergyman's widow who had been her school friend , and to whom she was still the Kitty ' of thirty ...
... means looked on with disfavour by the lady of the house ; and indeed she treated none of his sex with such familiarity . His mother was a clergyman's widow who had been her school friend , and to whom she was still the Kitty ' of thirty ...
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... means by leaps and bounds , ' a few strokes of her pen would soon alter all that , and that it would give her great pleasure to make them , Mary had demurely observed that Mrs. Beckett could not bestow her bounty upon a worthier object ...
... means by leaps and bounds , ' a few strokes of her pen would soon alter all that , and that it would give her great pleasure to make them , Mary had demurely observed that Mrs. Beckett could not bestow her bounty upon a worthier object ...
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... means least - a Giant . ' But why ? There is nothing in being nine feet high , or even ten feet , to excite good Mr. Paton's sympathies . There must be merit , or at least presumed merit , or some pitiful misfortune to do that . ' ' I ...
... means least - a Giant . ' But why ? There is nothing in being nine feet high , or even ten feet , to excite good Mr. Paton's sympathies . There must be merit , or at least presumed merit , or some pitiful misfortune to do that . ' ' I ...
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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...