Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... talk afar off , " in society , " and been awe- stricken by the sound of it , and she had heard Arthur and his friends uttering much fine - sounding language upon subjects not generally in her way , but she was utterly unused to that ...
... talk afar off , " in society , " and been awe- stricken by the sound of it , and she had heard Arthur and his friends uttering much fine - sounding language upon subjects not generally in her way , but she was utterly unused to that ...
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... talk which was meant to wean Alice from her special grief . Sora Antonia told them of the other Forestieri who had lived like themselves in the Savvelli palace ; who had come for health and yet had died , leaving the saddest mourners ...
... talk which was meant to wean Alice from her special grief . Sora Antonia told them of the other Forestieri who had lived like themselves in the Savvelli palace ; who had come for health and yet had died , leaving the saddest mourners ...
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... talk of going away . Where would you go ? Are not we your friends- the friends you know best in Italy ? You must not think of going away . " But even these very words thus repeated acted like an awakening spell upon Alice . " I cannot ...
... talk of going away . Where would you go ? Are not we your friends- the friends you know best in Italy ? You must not think of going away . " But even these very words thus repeated acted like an awakening spell upon Alice . " I cannot ...
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... talk was over , and Colin , before he followed Lauderdale down- stairs , turned round to take a parting look at the Campagna , which lay under them like a great map in the moonlight , the old apparition looked out once more from the ...
... talk was over , and Colin , before he followed Lauderdale down- stairs , turned round to take a parting look at the Campagna , which lay under them like a great map in the moonlight , the old apparition looked out once more from the ...
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... talk ; the aspira- tions , the free open - hearted converse , as it was then , of some who now meet us disguised as formal worldlings ; all the delights of that life , whether at Cambridge or at Pisa , that comes not again . ' Youthful ...
... talk ; the aspira- tions , the free open - hearted converse , as it was then , of some who now meet us disguised as formal worldlings ; all the delights of that life , whether at Cambridge or at Pisa , that comes not again . ' Youthful ...
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Alice awfu Basque beautiful began believe better brother Burton called Charles Buller Church Colin colony Cooksland Davenport Brothers Dawson dear door doubt Edinburgh England English Erne eyes face father feel follow Frascati Gerty give gone hand heard heart HENRY KINGSLEY Holy Loch Holy Roman Empire honour interest Italian Italy James Burton kind king King's Counsel knew labour land Lauderdale laugh less live look Lord Lord Plunket means ment Meredith mind mother nation natural never night O'Ryan once opinion Oxton passed perhaps person Plunket political poor question Reuben river Safi Samuel Sanremo seemed Sir George society Sora Antonia soul speak suppose Taggia talk tell thing thou thought tion told Tom Williams Trevittick truth turned walk whole wife woman word young
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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.