Belgravia, Volume 8Willmer & Rogers, 1869 - English periodicals |
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... close - shaven man , wearing the high stand - up collars which now are almost as rare as pigtails . His thick hair was iron - gray ; his complexion was fast purpling ; his eyes , when he favoured me by looking up , were much lighter ...
... close - shaven man , wearing the high stand - up collars which now are almost as rare as pigtails . His thick hair was iron - gray ; his complexion was fast purpling ; his eyes , when he favoured me by looking up , were much lighter ...
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... close relationship . " " That she has no claim on me except what I feel inclined to recognise . Now , I have no objection to Lilla herself ; indeed , quite the contrary - I like her . But I am not going to be made the victim of all her ...
... close relationship . " " That she has no claim on me except what I feel inclined to recognise . Now , I have no objection to Lilla herself ; indeed , quite the contrary - I like her . But I am not going to be made the victim of all her ...
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... close watch over it . No ; you don't know what it is never to have been at school , never to have been taught when young how to pronounce a word , or enter a room , or properly handle a knife and fork . Teaching oneself Latin , or even ...
... close watch over it . No ; you don't know what it is never to have been at school , never to have been taught when young how to pronounce a word , or enter a room , or properly handle a knife and fork . Teaching oneself Latin , or even ...
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... close to a rose - bush , from which she had just gathered two rich red roses , and held them carelessly in her hand . The style of her beauty was peculiar , the perfection of the brunette , brilliant , full of life and expression . In ...
... close to a rose - bush , from which she had just gathered two rich red roses , and held them carelessly in her hand . The style of her beauty was peculiar , the perfection of the brunette , brilliant , full of life and expression . In ...
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... close beside us , or that on which all the world is in some way celebrating the birth of a new year ; or in the happy spring - time : it is doubly acceptable in those glorious days of summer , when the skies are clear , the sun is ...
... close beside us , or that on which all the world is in some way celebrating the birth of a new year ; or in the happy spring - time : it is doubly acceptable in those glorious days of summer , when the skies are clear , the sun is ...
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Page 282 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 546 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 226 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 229 - Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs ; or as the moon is moved, When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness.
Page 530 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the ' spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to soothe his mind and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Page 8 - Ms nation. His work is the source of most of the facts— and the falsehoods— that have obtained circulation in respect to the ancient Peruvians. Unfortunately, at this distance of time, it is not always easy to distinguish the one from the other.
Page 223 - The Menai Bridge, one of the most stupendous works of art that has been raised by man in modern ages, consists of a mass of iron, not less than four millions of pounds in weight, suspended at a medium height of about 120 feet above the sea. The consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs.
Page 287 - In the course of those nights, I finished my education in a fair amateur experience of houselessness. My principal object being to get through the night, the pursuit of it brought me into sympathetic relations with people who have no other object every night in the year.
Page 288 - Some of these rambles led me to great distances; for an opium-eater is too happy to observe the motion of 'time. And sometimes, in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and head-lands I had doubled in my outward voyage...
Page 225 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?