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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... better . I am tired of my own hypocrisy - of frightening the poor fools with half - truths when the whole truth of unbelief is in my heart . " " But you do believe , " she pleaded ; " in God and in our Saviour ! " " Not in the letter ...
... better . I am tired of my own hypocrisy - of frightening the poor fools with half - truths when the whole truth of unbelief is in my heart . " " But you do believe , " she pleaded ; " in God and in our Saviour ! " " Not in the letter ...
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... better if the lad can satisfy his longings with both . Lawn tennis , in spite of its respectable ancestry and the favour in which it is held at present , may perish in a year or two as utterly as badminton or croquet have died out ...
... better if the lad can satisfy his longings with both . Lawn tennis , in spite of its respectable ancestry and the favour in which it is held at present , may perish in a year or two as utterly as badminton or croquet have died out ...
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... better hold their peace . Those who like fishing for this " tyrant of the fresh waters , " as Walton calls the pike , should consult their Compleat Angler for the toothsome receipt which its writer gives for cooking a pike . The mere ...
... better hold their peace . Those who like fishing for this " tyrant of the fresh waters , " as Walton calls the pike , should consult their Compleat Angler for the toothsome receipt which its writer gives for cooking a pike . The mere ...
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... better than any verbal description.1 These hints and reminiscences of loch - fishing might well end here , but the literary like the practical angler never knows when to stop . " Mickle wad aye hae mair " is a piscatorial proverb ...
... better than any verbal description.1 These hints and reminiscences of loch - fishing might well end here , but the literary like the practical angler never knows when to stop . " Mickle wad aye hae mair " is a piscatorial proverb ...
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... better moods but seedier humours , father and son trudged together , a good - natured pilgrim was driven to remonstrate with Old Tommy on his hurrying his father along . If one is to accept , what few will be disposed to accept , the ...
... better moods but seedier humours , father and son trudged together , a good - natured pilgrim was driven to remonstrate with Old Tommy on his hurrying his father along . If one is to accept , what few will be disposed to accept , the ...
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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.