Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 58David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1888 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
Page 8
... hundred a year , we can't look at you , and the sooner you take yourself off the better ; but if you can really bring us as much as three or four thousand a year we shall be willing to do business with you . ' Perhaps I may fancy that ...
... hundred a year , we can't look at you , and the sooner you take yourself off the better ; but if you can really bring us as much as three or four thousand a year we shall be willing to do business with you . ' Perhaps I may fancy that ...
Page 18
... hundred pounds a year , was left by his father to do for himself on that not extensive revenue . He did for himself at Oxford during the space of nine years ; and it is supposed that his straitened circumstances had some- thing to do ...
... hundred pounds a year , was left by his father to do for himself on that not extensive revenue . He did for himself at Oxford during the space of nine years ; and it is supposed that his straitened circumstances had some- thing to do ...
Page 19
... living of Foston , near York , valued at five hundred pounds a year , was given to Sydney . He paid for it , after a fashion which in a less zealous and convinced Whig might seem a little dubious , by the famous C 2 Sydney Smith . 19.
... living of Foston , near York , valued at five hundred pounds a year , was given to Sydney . He paid for it , after a fashion which in a less zealous and convinced Whig might seem a little dubious , by the famous C 2 Sydney Smith . 19.
Page 31
... hundred pounds , went the round of London drawing - rooms and country vicarages . The spot that was in favour for the moment became a sort of catchword , and for the time emble- matical of the American continent generally , somewhat to ...
... hundred pounds , went the round of London drawing - rooms and country vicarages . The spot that was in favour for the moment became a sort of catchword , and for the time emble- matical of the American continent generally , somewhat to ...
Page 33
... hundred acres was remarkable . It consisted generally of two courses of training , heaven save the mark ! First , the contemplation for a year or two of a highly cultivated farm in Yorkshire or the Lothians ; secondly , a residence in ...
... hundred acres was remarkable . It consisted generally of two courses of training , heaven save the mark ! First , the contemplation for a year or two of a highly cultivated farm in Yorkshire or the Lothians ; secondly , a residence in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable ain't Angelina asked Barnstaple Batson beautiful brother called Cayetano Ceuta Chris church colour course Cressy cricket Delia Dolores Dosson doubt England English eyes face father Federation feel Filgee Flack Ford Francie Furniss garden Gaston Gibraltar girl give hand heard heart Imperial Federation Indian Spring Jacques Tahureau Jimmy Snyder Johnny kind King knew labour Lady less letters living look Lord Lord Carnarvon master McKinstry ment Miguel mind nature ness never night once passed perhaps Peter Bell poet poetic poetry present Probert Puritan round Rupert seemed sense side Sir George Young smile Spain talk tell things Thomas à Kempis thought tion told took turned Uncle Uncle Ben valley verses words writing Yosemite valley young youth
Popular passages
Page 316 - And there she lulled me asleep And there I dream'd — Ah! woe betide! The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried — "La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!
Page 17 - Cr. 8vo. 3$. 6d. each. WESTWARD Ho ! With a Portrait. HYPATIA. YEAST. ALTON LOCKE. Two YEARS AGO. HEREWARD THE WAKE. POEMS. THE HEROES; OR, GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN.
Page 316 - I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful - a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Page 452 - That teaches me that all things 'whatsoever I would that men should do unto me I should do even so to them.' It teaches me further, to 'remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.
Page 388 - Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Page 320 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
Page 115 - For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced them. Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius. They are fetters only to men of no genius...
Page 452 - It teaches me, further, to remember them that are in bonds as bound with them. I endeavoured to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right.
Page 80 - I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition THE PILGRIM FATHERS. of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 318 - Volition — so say metaphysicians from a want of smoking the second consciousness — Monsters — the Kraken — Mermaids — Southey believes in them — Southey's belief too much diluted — a Ghost story — Good morning — I heard his voice as he came towards me — I heard it as he moved away — I had heard it all the interval — if it may be called so. He was civil enough to ask me to call on him at Highgate.