Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 45Macmillan and Company, 1882 |
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Page 178
... Madeleine , you are to blame ! You called me uncle when you know I want you to call me papa ; so you must expect to be answered randomly . " " I think this is a very stupid place . Why did we stop here ? " Oh , to look about a little ...
... Madeleine , you are to blame ! You called me uncle when you know I want you to call me papa ; so you must expect to be answered randomly . " " I think this is a very stupid place . Why did we stop here ? " Oh , to look about a little ...
Page 179
... Madeleine , " he answered , coming hastily back , with a flush in his cheeks . " You know it is not safe for me to be startled . " All at once he turned white , and put out his hand to the girl's shoulder , on which , for a few moments ...
... Madeleine , " he answered , coming hastily back , with a flush in his cheeks . " You know it is not safe for me to be startled . " All at once he turned white , and put out his hand to the girl's shoulder , on which , for a few moments ...
Page 180
... Madeleine had said . Madeleine , meanwhile , had been idling about the little cemetery , in- specting the various tombstones with a mixture of interest and aversion ; her hands clasped behind her back , and her long black hair blowing ...
... Madeleine had said . Madeleine , meanwhile , had been idling about the little cemetery , in- specting the various tombstones with a mixture of interest and aversion ; her hands clasped behind her back , and her long black hair blowing ...
Page 181
... Madeleine , " continued the gentleman , as if desirous to avoid any further questions from this too shrewd and opinionated young lady . " We shall be late for our dinner . " They went by the shore , so as to avoid passing again through ...
... Madeleine , " continued the gentleman , as if desirous to avoid any further questions from this too shrewd and opinionated young lady . " We shall be late for our dinner . " They went by the shore , so as to avoid passing again through ...
Page 182
... Madeleine came down stairs , and she and the gentleman set forth in the way to the old red house beneath the elm . They went more slowly now even than usual ; but Madeleine noticed that Uncle Floyd smoked his cigar fast , and was very ...
... Madeleine came down stairs , and she and the gentleman set forth in the way to the old red house beneath the elm . They went more slowly now even than usual ; but Madeleine noticed that Uncle Floyd smoked his cigar fast , and was very ...
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Page 76 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 54 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 306 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 161 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 491 - Jews to parliament and the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 321 - Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule ; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis due ; — Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue.
Page 161 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee!
Page 161 - Thus had the EVERLASTING No (das ewige Nein) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest.
Page 451 - I give you this charge that you shall be of my privy council, and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted by any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the State ; and that, without respect to my private will, you will give me that counsel which you think best...
Page 151 - The blue majestic everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears its head unsung), with Edinburgh at their base clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black venerable masses of stonework that stretch far and wide and show like a city of Fairyland.