Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 90W. Blackwood., 1861 |
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Pagina 13
... lady " with great honours , in the cloister in front of the church door , " who had no better claim to such distinction than having been " concubinæ loco " to King Henry I . ; * but a son of hers gave them Langford Mill as a " soul ...
... lady " with great honours , in the cloister in front of the church door , " who had no better claim to such distinction than having been " concubinæ loco " to King Henry I . ; * but a son of hers gave them Langford Mill as a " soul ...
Pagina 26
... Lady Hesketh , but that none of these biographers makes the faintest allusion to the Hertford trial , the most re ... ladies from sixteen upwards , in white satin , and their confidantes in white linen , if this is to be taken as a proof ...
... Lady Hesketh , but that none of these biographers makes the faintest allusion to the Hertford trial , the most re ... ladies from sixteen upwards , in white satin , and their confidantes in white linen , if this is to be taken as a proof ...
Pagina 37
... lady . Then again I committed a serious error in estimating the nature of Lumley's attachment by the vehe- mence of my own . He was an older man than I was , had seen much more of the world , and had.outlived the period when passion is ...
... lady . Then again I committed a serious error in estimating the nature of Lumley's attachment by the vehe- mence of my own . He was an older man than I was , had seen much more of the world , and had.outlived the period when passion is ...
Pagina 41
... Lady Letitia Castle- ton , a woman of high birth and unblemished character , but of very contracted fortune , had an only daughter , Ida , who was acknow- ledged to be the belle of the season . A more fairy - like creature never flitted ...
... Lady Letitia Castle- ton , a woman of high birth and unblemished character , but of very contracted fortune , had an only daughter , Ida , who was acknow- ledged to be the belle of the season . A more fairy - like creature never flitted ...
Pagina 43
... lady , a Mrs Lindsay , widow of a general officer , who was compelled for rea- sons of economy to reside abroad . She had one daughter , a very charm- ing girl , who had been brought up , under her mother's eye , in the country , and ...
... lady , a Mrs Lindsay , widow of a general officer , who was compelled for rea- sons of economy to reside abroad . She had one daughter , a very charm- ing girl , who had been brought up , under her mother's eye , in the country , and ...
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Pagina 79 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Pagina 395 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Pagina 594 - When I remember all The friends so linked together I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Pagina 228 - Tread softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll, — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou.
Pagina 227 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Pagina 322 - Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors ; which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company the more acceptable.
Pagina 610 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Pagina 322 - Wood's character of him is, that " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
Pagina 226 - In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter — all her bright hair streaming down — And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white All but her face, and that clear-featured face Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead, But fast asleep, and lay as tho
Pagina 396 - Governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands...