Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 38C. Scribner's sons, 1905 |
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Page 342 - Rosedale in terms of business-like give-and-take, this understanding took on the harmless air of a mutual accommodation, like a transfer of property or a revision of boundary lines. It certainly simplified life to view it as a perpetual adjustment, a play of party politics, in which every concession had its recognized equivalent: Lily's tired mind was fascinated by this escape from fluctuating ethical estimates into a region of concrete weights and measures.
Page 739 - What is there is mine,' he should have said, ' and whether I got it from a book or from life, is of no consequence ; the only point is, whether I have made a right use of it.
Page 40 - I am extremely sorry for the misfortune that has happened, that of losing his Majesty's ship I had the honour to command ; but at the same time I Hatter myself with the hopes that their Lordships will be convinced that she has not been given away ; but on the contrary, that every exertion has been used to defend her...
Page 596 - Nous entrerons dans la carrière Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus ; Nous y trouverons leur poussière Et la trace de leurs vertus ! Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre Que de partager leur cercueil, Nous aurons le sublime orgueil De les venger ou de les suivre ! .... Aux armes, citoyens ! etc.
Page 98 - ... speech which never arrived at wit, and the freedom of act which never made for romance. The strident setting of the restaurant, in which their table seemed set apart in a special glare of publicity, and the presence at it of little Dabham of the "Riviera Notes...
Page 604 - She had passed beyond the phase of well-bred reciprocity, in which every demonstration must be scrupulously proportioned to the emotion it elicits, and generosity of feeling is the only ostentation condemned.
Page 280 - British poets. Byron he praised in the highest terms, declared himself one of a large party in Germany who admired him unboundedly and seized on and swallowed everything that came from him. Of Scott we had time to talk; of Wordsworth, Southey he knew nothing; of Coleridge, the name — had forgotten however his works. The author of Bertram, CR Maturin, was praised. The tragedy, said Goethe, has many beautiful passages.
Page 343 - She had rejected Rosedale's suggestion with a promptness of scorn almost surprising to herself: she had not lost her capacity for high flashes of indignation. But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what she craved, and really felt herself entitled to, was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect....
Page 39 - I hailed him; and asked what ship it was; they answered in English, the Princess Royal; I then asked where they belonged to ; they answered evasively ; on which I told them, if they did not answer directly, I would fire into them ; they then answered with a shot, which was instantly returned with a broadside ; and after exchanging two or three broadsides he backed his topsails, and dropped upon our quarter within pistol shot, then filled again, put his helm...