Littell's Living Age, Volum 128Littell, Son and Company, 1876 |
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Pàgina 35
... Galbraith lest it might lead to Triton , indeed , but not amongst minnows . unpleasant results . " No great general , " says Froude , " ever arose out of a nation of cowards , no great statesman out of a nation of fools . " That the ...
... Galbraith lest it might lead to Triton , indeed , but not amongst minnows . unpleasant results . " No great general , " says Froude , " ever arose out of a nation of cowards , no great statesman out of a nation of fools . " That the ...
Pàgina 36
... Galbraith seated opposite to her , apparently quite at home , leaning easily across the table as he talked pleasantly with the pretty tea- maker . Kate could not help being struck by the altered expression of his face since she had ...
... Galbraith seated opposite to her , apparently quite at home , leaning easily across the table as he talked pleasantly with the pretty tea- maker . Kate could not help being struck by the altered expression of his face since she had ...
Pàgina 37
... Galbraith , look- ing under the shade to get a glimpse of her 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 . " Galbraith ...
... Galbraith , look- ing under the shade to get a glimpse of her 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 . " Galbraith ...
Pàgina 38
... Galbraith . " High - bred that is , they took off their hats and bowed more gracefully , and treated their inferiors with insolence none the less brutal , because it had a certain steely glitter , and were more ferocious about their ...
... Galbraith . " High - bred that is , they took off their hats and bowed more gracefully , and treated their inferiors with insolence none the less brutal , because it had a certain steely glitter , and were more ferocious about their ...
Pàgina 39
... Galbraith muttered something indis - nounced his name " my grandfather and tinct and deep . There was a few mo- great - grandfather , nay , so far as I know , ments ' silence , and then Sir Hugh said all my ancestors if such a phrase ...
... Galbraith muttered something indis - nounced his name " my grandfather and tinct and deep . There was a few mo- great - grandfather , nay , so far as I know , ments ' silence , and then Sir Hugh said all my ancestors if such a phrase ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 218 - 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 46 - 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 138 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : His heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Pàgina 138 - 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 95 - 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 219 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Pàgina 401 - 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 220 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Pàgina 59 - 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 117 - 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...