Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 331877 - 2 pages |
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... happen to be at large . Why should they therefore go to heaven ? and if not , why should they be thus oppressed on earth ? ' I am not the Creator , Pennicuick , ' ' You are His apologist ; and I ask you BY PROXY . 23.
... happen to be at large . Why should they therefore go to heaven ? and if not , why should they be thus oppressed on earth ? ' I am not the Creator , Pennicuick , ' ' You are His apologist ; and I ask you BY PROXY . 23.
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... earth ; and that , being equally ignorant of the riddle of human fate and destiny , it is no use asking questions of one another about it . ' ' Well , it is something that you don't fold your hands , Connie , and , looking smug and ...
... earth ; and that , being equally ignorant of the riddle of human fate and destiny , it is no use asking questions of one another about it . ' ' Well , it is something that you don't fold your hands , Connie , and , looking smug and ...
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... earth . Could the three men revisit the glimpses of the moon , we should at once clap Boccaccio on the shoulder and call him Giovanni , or probably Nanni - which is equivalent to Jack - as every Italian would ; but we should bend . in ...
... earth . Could the three men revisit the glimpses of the moon , we should at once clap Boccaccio on the shoulder and call him Giovanni , or probably Nanni - which is equivalent to Jack - as every Italian would ; but we should bend . in ...
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... earth seem different to him from what they had once appeared , had to come to an end . The active and serious business of life was about to begin for him , and the shape in which it came to him is a proof that , whatever may be said or ...
... earth seem different to him from what they had once appeared , had to come to an end . The active and serious business of life was about to begin for him , and the shape in which it came to him is a proof that , whatever may be said or ...
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... earth by fire . His good heart and fair estate were better to her mind as clauses in the marriage settlement , than graceful manner or physical beauty ; which last indeed she found it convenient to blaspheme as a wholly unimportant item ...
... earth by fire . His good heart and fair estate were better to her mind as clauses in the marriage settlement , than graceful manner or physical beauty ; which last indeed she found it convenient to blaspheme as a wholly unimportant item ...
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Page 40 - She smiled on many just for fun — I knew that there was nothing in it ; I was the first, the only one Her heart had thought of for a minute ; I knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely moulded; She wrote a charming hand, and oh ! How sweetly all her notes were folded ! Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver ; A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And
Page 320 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. — When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 320 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 95 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose, For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Page 422 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 320 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the
Page 162 - The very worst of these had infinitely more evidence in its favour than the best which the paradoxists have brought forth. There was not one of those theories which nine out of ten of his scientific contemporaries would not have accepted ungrudgingly. Yet he wrought these theories one after another to their own disproof. Nineteen of them he tried and rejected — the twentieth was the true theory of the solar system. Perhaps nothing in the whole history of astronomy affords a nobler lesson to the...
Page 414 - Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Page 319 - English opera before this innovation; the transition from an air to recitative music being more natural than the passing from a song to plain and ordinary speaking, which was the common method in Purcell's operas.
Page 291 - I have shown them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well-nigh withered hopes of those who, guided by more profound contemplations, have discovered the fallacy of the new observations, and demonstrated the utter impossibility of the existence of those things which the telescope appears to show.