MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 73Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1896 |
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... give her on the days of my periodical visits . My chief piece of intelligence on the day in question was that a relation of my own , whom she had once seen , was about to be married . The old woman was greatly interested , and asked the ...
... give her on the days of my periodical visits . My chief piece of intelligence on the day in question was that a relation of my own , whom she had once seen , was about to be married . The old woman was greatly interested , and asked the ...
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Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris. lowed , give to the small bags of Ire- land a special and altogether peculiar zest . 66 One hears much in Ireland of the decrease of birds . The evidence of good judges however ...
Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris. lowed , give to the small bags of Ire- land a special and altogether peculiar zest . 66 One hears much in Ireland of the decrease of birds . The evidence of good judges however ...
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... give a strange sort of charm , for instance , to yonder fragment of ruin beneath us that looks out over the four or five miles of darkling bog . It is compara- tively modern , yet no one , save a few archæologists perhaps in Dublin ...
... give a strange sort of charm , for instance , to yonder fragment of ruin beneath us that looks out over the four or five miles of darkling bog . It is compara- tively modern , yet no one , save a few archæologists perhaps in Dublin ...
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... give the invitation properly , - not necessary I tell her , as you will take it from me . Besides you know you promised , twenty years ago . There is nothing to stand in the way , as you are giving up your old women and dirty children ...
... give the invitation properly , - not necessary I tell her , as you will take it from me . Besides you know you promised , twenty years ago . There is nothing to stand in the way , as you are giving up your old women and dirty children ...
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... give Gregory more leisure for his literary labours . I did not think much of these , but his wife did , as was natural . As for the rural dulness of Ditchborough , I con- fess this appeared to me its chiefest attraction . After years of ...
... give Gregory more leisure for his literary labours . I did not think much of these , but his wife did , as was natural . As for the rural dulness of Ditchborough , I con- fess this appeared to me its chiefest attraction . After years of ...
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Page 446 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 306 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 443 - Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of the land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My own meaning when I would be very fine; But the fact is that I have nothing plann'd, Unless it were to be a moment merry, A novel word in my vocabulary.
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Page 445 - Cripplegate mould. Coleridge is just dead, having lived just long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before — poor Col., but two days before he died, he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem on the " Wanderings of Cain,
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Page 445 - But as in my very first conception of the tale I had the whole present to my mind, with the wholeness no less than with the liveliness of a vision, I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come, in the course of the present year.
Page 445 - ... almost in his presence, and when there was the most unreserved intercourse between them as to all their literary projects and productions, and he had never heard from him any plan for finishing it. Not that he doubted my uncle's sincerity in his subsequent assertions to the contrary ; because, he said, schemes of this sort passed rapidly and vividly through his mind, and so impressed him, that he often fancied he had arranged things, which really and upon trial proved to be mere, embryos.
Page 307 - Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks in whispers, " Who next will drop and disappear?
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