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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... Passing over the great Mountain Cenis I was fain to hire one to lead my horse up before me , and I to come after him , holding by the tail , for fear of falling back- wards , it was so steep to the top . There was such a noise of water ...
... Passing over the great Mountain Cenis I was fain to hire one to lead my horse up before me , and I to come after him , holding by the tail , for fear of falling back- wards , it was so steep to the top . There was such a noise of water ...
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... chain of rocky mountains , that changed their face and opened something new every hundred yards , as the way turned , or the clouds passed . In over . · short , altogether it was one of the most MAINLY ABOUT THE PROLOGUE . 5.
... chain of rocky mountains , that changed their face and opened something new every hundred yards , as the way turned , or the clouds passed . In over . · short , altogether it was one of the most MAINLY ABOUT THE PROLOGUE . 5.
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... passed these many years , and at every step I wished for you . The road is excellent , but dangerous enough in conscience , the river often run- ning directly under us at the bottom of a precipice 200 feet deep , sometimes masqued ...
... passed these many years , and at every step I wished for you . The road is excellent , but dangerous enough in conscience , the river often run- ning directly under us at the bottom of a precipice 200 feet deep , sometimes masqued ...
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... passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self - same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth , when , sick for home , She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft - times hath ...
... passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self - same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth , when , sick for home , She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft - times hath ...
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... passing ) any adequate im- pression of the inextinguishable vitality , the force and vivacity , of Henry Lancaster . He ought to have survived us all ; and yet he died early . Death lays his hand on the most unlikely subjects ; why were ...
... passing ) any adequate im- pression of the inextinguishable vitality , the force and vivacity , of Henry Lancaster . He ought to have survived us all ; and yet he died early . Death lays his hand on the most unlikely subjects ; why were ...
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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.
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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.
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