Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 270F. Jefferies, 1891 |
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... city seemed to condense upon the roofs of the smoke - cured houses , and descended , drip , drip , dripping to the areas - there to breed all manner of ills . VOL . CCLXX . NO . 1921 . B Such , without , was the strange contrast to the.
... city seemed to condense upon the roofs of the smoke - cured houses , and descended , drip , drip , dripping to the areas - there to breed all manner of ills . VOL . CCLXX . NO . 1921 . B Such , without , was the strange contrast to the.
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... manners , in short , conversation is impossible . Many will agree with M. Renan , who finds this to be a pushing , selfish , democratic age , of which " first come first served " is the rule , and which has ceased to pay any heed to ...
... manners , in short , conversation is impossible . Many will agree with M. Renan , who finds this to be a pushing , selfish , democratic age , of which " first come first served " is the rule , and which has ceased to pay any heed to ...
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... manners and taste , and above all , in intellectual capacity . When people are brought together without care for these similarities we know what happens . If their number be large enough , they involuntarily split up , not by cold ...
... manners and taste , and above all , in intellectual capacity . When people are brought together without care for these similarities we know what happens . If their number be large enough , they involuntarily split up , not by cold ...
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... manner of varying one of his tales shows much tact . An Englishman and a Frenchman ( he used to say ) who were to fight a duel , agreed , in order that they might have a better chance of missing one another , that they would fight in a ...
... manner of varying one of his tales shows much tact . An Englishman and a Frenchman ( he used to say ) who were to fight a duel , agreed , in order that they might have a better chance of missing one another , that they would fight in a ...
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... manner . The object of this oblique twisting of the wing is to diminish the velocity of the descending fruit . Again , there are seeds so shaped that when dropped from the hand they rarely fall straight to the earth , but shoot aside in ...
... manner . The object of this oblique twisting of the wing is to diminish the velocity of the descending fruit . Again , there are seeds so shaped that when dropped from the hand they rarely fall straight to the earth , but shoot aside in ...
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Page 68 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Page 17 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.
Page 369 - Now I'ma wretch, indeed. Methinks I see him already in the cart, sweeter and more lovely than the nosegay in his hand!— I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity! What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace! I see him at the treel The whole circle are in tears! —even butchers weep!
Page 621 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 9 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Page 633 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Page 486 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 486 - There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags.
Page 193 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 9 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in...