The Living Age, Volum 128E. Littell & Company, 1876 |
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Pàgina 34
... smile be- hind his tawny moustache , as one who exterminates the lively pertinacious pulex irritans , otherwise sublimely big and in- different . The crumpled roseleaf on Germany's bed of glory is , that she cannot get every other ...
... smile be- hind his tawny moustache , as one who exterminates the lively pertinacious pulex irritans , otherwise sublimely big and in- different . The crumpled roseleaf on Germany's bed of glory is , that she cannot get every other ...
Pàgina 37
... smile . " What did he say ? " " " That you are an ungrateful man ; that he has devoted himself to your service , and that your return is to tell him he is a gossip . 66 22 Galbraith smiled rather grimly . “ Did he tell you what led up ...
... smile . " What did he say ? " " " That you are an ungrateful man ; that he has devoted himself to your service , and that your return is to tell him he is a gossip . 66 22 Galbraith smiled rather grimly . “ Did he tell you what led up ...
Pàgina 38
... smile . " A counter has not hitherto been the best training - school to form a gentlewoman ; but the days are rapidly passing when women could afford to be merely graceful ornaments . must in the future take our share of the burden and ...
... smile . " A counter has not hitherto been the best training - school to form a gentlewoman ; but the days are rapidly passing when women could afford to be merely graceful ornaments . must in the future take our share of the burden and ...
Pàgina 39
... smiling , while she hunted with her needle an erratic white bead round an inverted box - cover , " are decently ... smile was on his lip . He looked grave and stern , and was pulling his mous- taches as if in deep thought . There ...
... smiling , while she hunted with her needle an erratic white bead round an inverted box - cover , " are decently ... smile was on his lip . He looked grave and stern , and was pulling his mous- taches as if in deep thought . There ...
Pàgina 41
... smile , sometimes arch , often scornful , occasion- ally tender ; the proud turn of her snowy throat ; the outlines of her rounded , pli- ant figure ; the great , earnest , liquid eyes uplifted so frankly and calmly to meet his own ...
... smile , sometimes arch , often scornful , occasion- ally tender ; the proud turn of her snowy throat ; the outlines of her rounded , pli- ant figure ; the great , earnest , liquid eyes uplifted so frankly and calmly to meet his own ...
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appeared asked beautiful believe better body called Captain cause character Cicely coming course cried doubt Elsa eyes face fact feeling felt followed force friends Galbraith gave girl give given hand hard head heard heart hope human idea keep kind known lady land least leave less light living look matter means mind Monique morning nature never night once original passed perhaps person play poems poet poor present question returned round seems seen sense Sévère side smile speak stand strange suppose sure taken tell Temple things thought tion took true truth turn whole Wordsworth write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 219 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Pàgina 45 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Pàgina 137 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Pàgina 94 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Pàgina 221 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is stilL There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Pàgina 406 - We only toil, who are the first of things. And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
Pàgina 58 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...
Pàgina 116 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Pàgina 217 - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
Pàgina 458 - Ye never dreamt of this, for ten or twenty years after ye began to preach. Ye did not then, like Korah Dathan, and Abiram, seek the priesthood also. Ye knew, ' No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.