London Society, Volume 2James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1862 - English literature |
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... manner in which he had questioned me about old times . ' Mine is inscrutable , ' I said . ' Not to me , for I have studied it long . I will not say to admire , be- cause you are self - opiniated to a fault . I will not say to love ...
... manner in which he had questioned me about old times . ' Mine is inscrutable , ' I said . ' Not to me , for I have studied it long . I will not say to admire , be- cause you are self - opiniated to a fault . I will not say to love ...
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... manner , was apparently a boor of the town , either a messenger or servant of one of them , for he kept in the background , and waited patiently for an opportunity of taking his turn to look at the object , whatever it was , that ...
... manner , was apparently a boor of the town , either a messenger or servant of one of them , for he kept in the background , and waited patiently for an opportunity of taking his turn to look at the object , whatever it was , that ...
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... manner . Any one might see in the eager , restless eye of the hard - hearted professor , in his dry lips and feverish manner , an insatiate desire for revenge upon the bold youth who had dared to rival the learning of a leader of the ...
... manner . Any one might see in the eager , restless eye of the hard - hearted professor , in his dry lips and feverish manner , an insatiate desire for revenge upon the bold youth who had dared to rival the learning of a leader of the ...
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... manner which they have hitherto associated with English painting is almost unknown among us at the present time ; that if we do not affect the heiligkeit of Steinle and Overbeck , or the classic spirit of Delaroche - if we lack the ...
... manner which they have hitherto associated with English painting is almost unknown among us at the present time ; that if we do not affect the heiligkeit of Steinle and Overbeck , or the classic spirit of Delaroche - if we lack the ...
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... manner in which it has been handled , is likely to acquire popularity . The inge- nious mechanic Heilman is repre- sented sitting at his homely fireside , surrounded by his family , one of whom , a blooming girl of eighteen , stands in ...
... manner in which it has been handled , is likely to acquire popularity . The inge- nious mechanic Heilman is repre- sented sitting at his homely fireside , surrounded by his family , one of whom , a blooming girl of eighteen , stands in ...
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Page 387 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only to my prince.
Page 566 - A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 34 - And starry river buds among the sedge, And floating water-lilies, broad and bright, Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge With moonlight beams of their own watery light; And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen. Methought that of these visionary flowers I made a nosegay bound in such a way That the same hues, which in their natural...
Page 405 - It is the fashion to run down George IV., but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton ! One of the best of physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton.
Page 316 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 560 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 448 - That bit of old wisdom which says that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is in terms of our new psychological wisdom, absolutely true.
Page 68 - If persons who are now living, and who were present at that performance may be credited, the applause it received was almost as extravagant as his Agrippina had excited : the crowds and tumults of the house at Venice were hardly equal to those at London. In so splendid and fashionable an assembly of ladies (to the excellence of their taste we must impute it) there was no shadow of form, or ceremony, scarce indeed any apr pearance of order, or regularity, politeness or decency.
Page 378 - All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Did you think it was in the white or gray stone ? or the lines of the arches and cornices ?) All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they.
Page 476 - Why, b-becanse they both get blown — in time.' ïou t-thee the joke of course, but I don't think Sloper did thomehow: all he thed was —