The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 280F. Jefferies, 1896 |
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... appeared in the light of a standing insult , and who would decidedly have preferred a quarrelsome to a silent companion ; but against these he had secured an efficient protector ever since the day of " Pat Finnerty's " arrival . That ...
... appeared in the light of a standing insult , and who would decidedly have preferred a quarrelsome to a silent companion ; but against these he had secured an efficient protector ever since the day of " Pat Finnerty's " arrival . That ...
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... appeared upon the parliamentary scene suggest an interesting page in the history of phrases . At the very commencement of the reign of James I. , when , though there was to be no union of the Parliaments , there had been effected one of ...
... appeared upon the parliamentary scene suggest an interesting page in the history of phrases . At the very commencement of the reign of James I. , when , though there was to be no union of the Parliaments , there had been effected one of ...
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... Khartoum , or which characterised the Soudanese at that period as " rightly strug- gling to be free " ; and as that which appeared to imply that , in British policy towards the Transvaal , there was the taint of Mr. Gladstone's Phrases .
... Khartoum , or which characterised the Soudanese at that period as " rightly strug- gling to be free " ; and as that which appeared to imply that , in British policy towards the Transvaal , there was the taint of Mr. Gladstone's Phrases .
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... appearance , weight , warmth , and high price peculiar to beaverdom . THE MODERN SILK HAT . 1 I should regard this story of the " chimney - pot " hat as altogether unsatisfactory were it to terminate here . The " building up " of the ...
... appearance , weight , warmth , and high price peculiar to beaverdom . THE MODERN SILK HAT . 1 I should regard this story of the " chimney - pot " hat as altogether unsatisfactory were it to terminate here . The " building up " of the ...
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... appearance presented by the canvas , or , more correctly , stiffened " gossamer " beneath the silk nap - but I anticipate . " Tips , " " bodies , " and " brims " constitute the trinity of the silk hat , and are neither more nor less ...
... appearance presented by the canvas , or , more correctly , stiffened " gossamer " beneath the silk nap - but I anticipate . " Tips , " " bodies , " and " brims " constitute the trinity of the silk hat , and are neither more nor less ...
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Page 247 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 105 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 253 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 606 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.
Page 24 - Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner, namely by carrying off themselves. Their Zaptiehs and their Mudirs, their Bimbashis and their Yuzbachis, their Kaimakams and their Pashas, one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
Page 392 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 259 - It was sold then for it's wayte in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbours say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco.
Page 610 - When the house doth sigh and weep, And the world is drown'd in sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Page 169 - Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quencht their Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...
Page 215 - She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.