Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 331877 - 2 pages |
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... given balf - a - crown for them , and arranged them with her own tasteful hands , notwithstanding her previous discourtesy , was quite in keeping with her character ; it was not done with the least feeling of making amends ; but since ...
... given balf - a - crown for them , and arranged them with her own tasteful hands , notwithstanding her previous discourtesy , was quite in keeping with her character ; it was not done with the least feeling of making amends ; but since ...
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... given way to a temptation that would only have been attractive , as one would think , to a midshipman or a schoolboy , and the consequences of succumbing to which were obviously so tremendous . It was , however , his very love of self ...
... given way to a temptation that would only have been attractive , as one would think , to a midshipman or a schoolboy , and the consequences of succumbing to which were obviously so tremendous . It was , however , his very love of self ...
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... given his manner that constraint which his friend had observed : but , before he reached the boat , the matter had thoroughly recommended itself to him . When Conway informed him that the priest had indirectly deceived him , and that ...
... given his manner that constraint which his friend had observed : but , before he reached the boat , the matter had thoroughly recommended itself to him . When Conway informed him that the priest had indirectly deceived him , and that ...
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... given orders , I presume , that after I have made my compliments ' —as delicate a phrase as he could think of for greasing the hands of justice— ' I shall be at liberty to visit my friend ? ' ' Except the words of wisdom which have just ...
... given orders , I presume , that after I have made my compliments ' —as delicate a phrase as he could think of for greasing the hands of justice— ' I shall be at liberty to visit my friend ? ' ' Except the words of wisdom which have just ...
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... given me , I could make it worth the while even of the lord of the province to take a merciful view of the case . ' 6 ' You could not buy his head , and that is what he would lose by such a course , ' returned the other coolly . You ...
... given me , I could make it worth the while even of the lord of the province to take a merciful view of the case . ' 6 ' You could not buy his head , and that is what he would lose by such a course , ' returned the other coolly . You ...
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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.