Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 254A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1883 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... Now , cuckoo - pint , or lords - and - ladies , or wild arum , whichever you choose A lecture delivered at the Midland Institute , Birmingham . FIG . 1 . to call it , is a very singular plant indeed 152 The Gentleman's Magazine .
... Now , cuckoo - pint , or lords - and - ladies , or wild arum , whichever you choose A lecture delivered at the Midland Institute , Birmingham . FIG . 1 . to call it , is a very singular plant indeed 152 The Gentleman's Magazine .
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... arum , form the real blossoms of the cuckoo - pint ; and they are inclosed in the sheathing hood for a very good reason , as we shall hereafter see , in order to insure the carrying out of their proper function , the final production of ...
... arum , form the real blossoms of the cuckoo - pint ; and they are inclosed in the sheathing hood for a very good reason , as we shall hereafter see , in order to insure the carrying out of their proper function , the final production of ...
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... arum tribe - and I may as well start fair by saying at once that the arums are by descent degenerate lilies , and that each of these very degraded little flowers really represents a primitive full - blown and bright - coloured lily ...
... arum tribe - and I may as well start fair by saying at once that the arums are by descent degenerate lilies , and that each of these very degraded little flowers really represents a primitive full - blown and bright - coloured lily ...
Page 156
... arums have reached their present condition ; and several surviving intermediate forms enable us to bridge over the ... arum ; they look pretty much the same sort of small unnoticeable green knobs to a casual observer . But when one ...
... arums have reached their present condition ; and several surviving intermediate forms enable us to bridge over the ... arum ; they look pretty much the same sort of small unnoticeable green knobs to a casual observer . But when one ...
Page 157
... it indiscriminately as Æthiopian lily , white calla , snowy arum , St. Helena arrowroot , and lily of the Nile . However , in spite of its numerous disguises , I dare say it will be easy to recognise the plant I Cuckoo - pint . 157.
... it indiscriminately as Æthiopian lily , white calla , snowy arum , St. Helena arrowroot , and lily of the Nile . However , in spite of its numerous disguises , I dare say it will be easy to recognise the plant I Cuckoo - pint . 157.
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Page 389 - And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 78 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 559 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them...
Page 418 - 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 tree and plenteous. I do not meet in these late decades, such company over a pipe.
Page 626 - In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek, With a malice that marks each word, each sign! O enemy sly and serpentine, Uncoil thee from the waking man...
Page 418 - He had his breeding at Cambridge, as if for the Law or Church ; being master of a small annuity on his father's decease, he preferred clubbing with his mother and some sisters, 'to live unpromoted and write Poems. In this way he lives still, now here, now there; the family always within reach of London, never in it; he himself making rare and brief visits, lodging in some old comrade's rooms.
Page 492 - To the audience I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye, I am the ghost of poor departed Nelly. Sweet ladies, be not frighted, I'll be civil; I'm what I was, a little harmless devil...
Page 82 - Paraguay offers the most curious instance of this; for here neither cattle nor horses nor dogs have ever run wild, though they swarm southward and northward in a feral state; and Azara and Rengger have shown that this is caused by the greater number in Paraguay of a certain fly, which lays its eggs in the navels of these animals when first born.
Page 487 - But so great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all when she comes in like a young gallant ; and hath the motions and carriage of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have. It makes me, I confess, admire her.
Page 417 - ... laugh not of sport but of mockery; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in proportion to his violence of temper: the judgment he gives about anything is more apt to be wrong than right, — as the inward whirlwind shows him this side or the other of the object; and sides of an object are all that he sees.