Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 44Macmillan and Company, 1881 |
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... Isabel re- turned on the morrow to Florence , and Ralph Touchett , though usually he was not fond of railway journeys , thought very well of the successive hours passed in the train which hur ried his companion away from the city now ...
... Isabel re- turned on the morrow to Florence , and Ralph Touchett , though usually he was not fond of railway journeys , thought very well of the successive hours passed in the train which hur ried his companion away from the city now ...
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... Isabel asked . " Because I am an old frump , and you are a beautiful young woman . ' " Granting all that , you have not promised . " " How much you think of your promises ! " said Madame Merle , with a smile of genial mockery . " I ...
... Isabel asked . " Because I am an old frump , and you are a beautiful young woman . ' " Granting all that , you have not promised . " " How much you think of your promises ! " said Madame Merle , with a smile of genial mockery . " I ...
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... Isabel cross the clear , grey court , and disap- pear into the brightness beyond the big portone , which gave a wider gleam as it opened . XXX . ISABEL came back to Florence , but only after several months ; an inter- val sufficiently ...
... Isabel cross the clear , grey court , and disap- pear into the brightness beyond the big portone , which gave a wider gleam as it opened . XXX . ISABEL came back to Florence , but only after several months ; an inter- val sufficiently ...
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... Isabel . She left her husband behind her , but she brought her children , to whom Isabel now played with equal munificence and tenderness the part of maiden - aunt . Mr. Ludlow , toward the last , had been able to snatch a few weeks ...
... Isabel . She left her husband behind her , but she brought her children , to whom Isabel now played with equal munificence and tenderness the part of maiden - aunt . Mr. Ludlow , toward the last , had been able to snatch a few weeks ...
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... Isabel was not at all like other people . - super- Isabel's gaiety , however ficially speaking at least - exhibited itself rather more after her sister had gone home . She could imagine some- thing more poetic than spending the winter ...
... Isabel was not at all like other people . - super- Isabel's gaiety , however ficially speaking at least - exhibited itself rather more after her sister had gone home . She could imagine some- thing more poetic than spending the winter ...
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Page 284 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 269 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.
Page 284 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 269 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Page 110 - Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature ; wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day.
Page 289 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews : 3 Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Page 166 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 41 - DEEP on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to the moon : My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord : Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are...
Page 213 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 42 - 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