The New Review, Volume 17Longmans, Green, 1897 |
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... give him . " Do you know , my dear , I shall soon be off to America ? " Do you mean with Mrs. Beale ? " He looked at her hard . " Don't be a little ass ! " Her silence appeared to represent a concentrated effort not to be . " Then with ...
... give him . " Do you know , my dear , I shall soon be off to America ? " Do you mean with Mrs. Beale ? " He looked at her hard . " Don't be a little ass ! " Her silence appeared to represent a concentrated effort not to be . " Then with ...
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... give him ground for complaint ; and the child was momentarily bewildered between her alternatives of agreeing with him about her wanting to get rid of him and displeasing him by pretending to stick to him . So she found for the moment ...
... give him ground for complaint ; and the child was momentarily bewildered between her alternatives of agreeing with him about her wanting to get rid of him and displeasing him by pretending to stick to him . So she found for the moment ...
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... give as well as to ask , and the most striking of these was to the effect that it was dreadful for a little girl to take money from a woman who was simply the vilest of their sex . The sovereigns were examined with some attention , the ...
... give as well as to ask , and the most striking of these was to the effect that it was dreadful for a little girl to take money from a woman who was simply the vilest of their sex . The sovereigns were examined with some attention , the ...
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... give it the air of having owed its success to the fact that Mrs. Beale had , as Susan said , but just stepped out . When Sir Claude , watch in hand , had met this fact with the exclamation " Then pack Miss Farange , and come off with us ...
... give it the air of having owed its success to the fact that Mrs. Beale had , as Susan said , but just stepped out . When Sir Claude , watch in hand , had met this fact with the exclamation " Then pack Miss Farange , and come off with us ...
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... give a support to Mrs. Wix's dream that she might still see his errors renounced and his delinquencies redeemed . Maisie's head held a suspicion of all that , during the last long interval , had confusedly , but quite candidly , come ...
... give a support to Mrs. Wix's dream that she might still see his errors renounced and his delinquencies redeemed . Maisie's head held a suspicion of all that , during the last long interval , had confusedly , but quite candidly , come ...
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Página 143 - The passage had begun, and the ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet. Round her the abysses of sky and sea met in an unattainable frontier. A great circular solitude moved with her, ever changing and ever the same, always monotonous and always imposing.
Página 539 - Indian looking, clothes cynically loose, free-and-easy, smokes infinite tobacco. His voice is musical, metallic, fit for loud laughter and piercing wail, and all that may lie between ; speech and speculation free and plenteous ; I do not meet in these late decades such company over a pipe...
Página 631 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Página 716 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of imperial consolidation. It, ought to have been accompanied by an imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the sovereign as their trustee, and by a military code...
Página 125 - MR. BAKER, chief mate of the ship Narcissus, stepped in one stride out of his lighted cabin into the darkness of the quarter-deck. Above his head, on the break of the poop, the night-watchman rang a double stroke. It was nine o'clock. Mr. Baker, speaking up to the man above him, asked: — "Are all the hands aboard, Knowles?
Página 627 - ... languidly as to what the fellow may be at. We watch the movements of his body, the waving of his arms, we see him bend down, stand up, hesitate, begin again. It may add to the charm of an idle hour to be told the purpose of his exertions. If we know he is trying to lift a stone, to dig a ditch, to uproot a stump, we look with a more real interest at his efforts; we are disposed to condone the jar of his agitation upon the restfulness of the landscape; and even, if in a brotherly frame of mind,...
Página 540 - I must however say, further, that I felt what Charles Lamb describes, a sense of depression at times from the overshadowing of a so much more lofty intellect than my own...
Página 372 - They must without pause justify their life to the •eternal pity that commands toil to be hard and unceasing, from sunrise .to sunset, from sunset to sunrise: till the weary succession of nights and days tainted by the obstinate...
Página 543 - I do not rate him highly, I could do better myself." Next morning my father received this apology : MY DEAR ALFRED, I woke at 2 o'clock, and in a sort of terror at a certain speech I had made about Catullus. When I have dined, sometimes I believe myself to be equal to the greatest painters and poets. That delusion goes off; and then I know what a small fiddle mine is and what small tunes I play upon it.