Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... doubt there would be a pang in it , especially when there was information like that to bestow ; but it's hard to tell , in our leemited condition , a ' the capabilities of a soul . It might be a friend close by , and no yoursel ' , that ...
... doubt there would be a pang in it , especially when there was information like that to bestow ; but it's hard to tell , in our leemited condition , a ' the capabilities of a soul . It might be a friend close by , and no yoursel ' , that ...
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... doubt , it will occupy a great deal of my time , but the other Fores- tieri have not arrived yet , and how can one expect the Madonna Santissima and the blessed St. Antonio to take so much trouble in one's concerns if one will not exert ...
... doubt , it will occupy a great deal of my time , but the other Fores- tieri have not arrived yet , and how can one expect the Madonna Santissima and the blessed St. Antonio to take so much trouble in one's concerns if one will not exert ...
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... doubt he'll send some answer , " the philosopher said . " He may not be worthy to have the charge of her , but he's aye her father . It's hard to ken whether it's better or worse that she should be unconscious like this of onything ...
... doubt he'll send some answer , " the philosopher said . " He may not be worthy to have the charge of her , but he's aye her father . It's hard to ken whether it's better or worse that she should be unconscious like this of onything ...
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... doubt of being accepted when he made his proposition , it was not because he had an overweening idea of himself , or imagined Alice " in love " with him according to the vulgar expression . A certain chivalrous , primitive sense of ...
... doubt of being accepted when he made his proposition , it was not because he had an overweening idea of himself , or imagined Alice " in love " with him according to the vulgar expression . A certain chivalrous , primitive sense of ...
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... doubt that it was in him to be a great poet ; and none who know his " Life of Keats , " or any of his many pamphlets and articles in Reviews and Magazines , will deny that he presents another example of what he has himself lately ...
... doubt that it was in him to be a great poet ; and none who know his " Life of Keats , " or any of his many pamphlets and articles in Reviews and Magazines , will deny that he presents another example of what he has himself lately ...
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Page 29 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 303 - I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery.
Page 29 - And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?
Page 493 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 27 - What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty ! '" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
Page 483 - A cup, save thee, and what a cup hast thou brought! Dost thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn?
Page 26 - There is no doubt this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott!
Page 303 - I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity.
Page 483 - Dost thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn? Why didst thou not bring thy thimble? Hast thou ne'er a brass thimble clinking in thy pocket with a bit of nutmeg? I warrant thee. Come, fill, fill. So, again.
Page 29 - So I piped, he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read — ' So he vanish'd from my sight.