The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude, Thackeray, Disraeli, Browning, Rossetti, Kingsley, Baynes, Huxley, Tyndall and OthersW. Blackwood, 1895 - 344 páginas |
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... revised . The notion that he was an utterly heartless worldling , curt , cynical , unsympathetic , finding his chief joy in eating and drinking and the assiduous cultivation of social " swells , " must be dismissed . But a false im ...
... revised . The notion that he was an utterly heartless worldling , curt , cynical , unsympathetic , finding his chief joy in eating and drinking and the assiduous cultivation of social " swells , " must be dismissed . But a false im ...
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... revision and alteration later on : - " 16 CHEYNE WALK [ 5th March 1870 ] . " MY DEAR SKELTON , -I'm sending you the proofs at last to - day - couldn't get them before . If too late , it will have to be put off to the June number , as I ...
... revision and alteration later on : - " 16 CHEYNE WALK [ 5th March 1870 ] . " MY DEAR SKELTON , -I'm sending you the proofs at last to - day - couldn't get them before . If too late , it will have to be put off to the June number , as I ...
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... revise them as they went through the press , with reference more particularly to various Scotch names and idioms in the early sheets . " I therefore venture to hope that you will look through the pages , and mark anything that seems ...
... revise them as they went through the press , with reference more particularly to various Scotch names and idioms in the early sheets . " I therefore venture to hope that you will look through the pages , and mark anything that seems ...
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... revise my History of England — a big job which will see out the rest of my working powers . I am glad to hear that you have had such a good time in the En- chantress . " • " 5 ONSLOW GARDENS , November 3 [ 1890 ] . " Of course I sent my ...
... revise my History of England — a big job which will see out the rest of my working powers . I am glad to hear that you have had such a good time in the En- chantress . " • " 5 ONSLOW GARDENS , November 3 [ 1890 ] . " Of course I sent my ...
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... revise his reminiscences those of us who survive will know all about it . The letter which I have had occasion to quote reminds me that in various old Note - Books there are not a few passages in which my first and fresh impressions of ...
... revise his reminiscences those of us who survive will know all about it . The letter which I have had occasion to quote reminds me that in various old Note - Books there are not a few passages in which my first and fresh impressions of ...
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Página 117 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Página 272 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Página 5 - BLACKIE. Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE, Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Second Edition. Fcap.
Página 22 - Cessios, and Sequestrations; and the "Winding-up of Joint-Stock Companies in Scotland ; with Annotations on the various Insolvency and Bankruptcy Statutes; and with Forms of Procedure applicable to these Subjects. By JAMES MURDOCH, Member of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Svo, 12s. net. MY TRIVIAL LIFE AND MISFORTUNE: A Gossip with no Plot in Particular. By A PLAIN WOMAN.
Página 265 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 35 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 4 - Edition. 8vo, 7s. 6d. The Principles of Singing. A Practical Guide for Vocalists and Teachers. With Course of Vocal Exercises. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Página 11 - ELIOT. George Eliot's Life, Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her husband, JW CROSS.
Página 101 - Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning.
Página 20 - Treatise on its Culture and General Management. By CHRISTOPHER Y. MICHIE, Forester, Cullen House. Crown Svo, with Illustrations.