Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 331877 - 2 pages |
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... least feeling of making amends ; but since the visit was to be , it was well that the obligation which had already proceeded from her side should remain there - nay , be intensified . The lady in the square had her advantages ; and that ...
... least feeling of making amends ; but since the visit was to be , it was well that the obligation which had already proceeded from her side should remain there - nay , be intensified . The lady in the square had her advantages ; and that ...
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... least sign of fear , he was as well aware as Conway himself that he was doomed to death . It was surprising that so sagacious a man , and one in general so careful of his own well - being , should have given way to a temptation that ...
... least sign of fear , he was as well aware as Conway himself that he was doomed to death . It was surprising that so sagacious a man , and one in general so careful of his own well - being , should have given way to a temptation that ...
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... least show of resist- ance would throw away mine . I adjure you to say something conciliatory , and above all to offer as huge a bribe as it is in your power to pay without application to Shanghae . ' I am not to be frightened , Conway ...
... least show of resist- ance would throw away mine . I adjure you to say something conciliatory , and above all to offer as huge a bribe as it is in your power to pay without application to Shanghae . ' I am not to be frightened , Conway ...
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... least delay . The affair is not in my hands , but in those of Imperial justice . I con- clude you have the money you spoke of in the boat ? ' ' Your Excellency shall have it at once , ' said Conway gravely . In the mean time I have your ...
... least delay . The affair is not in my hands , but in those of Imperial justice . I con- clude you have the money you spoke of in the boat ? ' ' Your Excellency shall have it at once , ' said Conway gravely . In the mean time I have your ...
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... least turn in the cards . So help me Heaven , I would give my right hand to see you out of this , and safe at Shanghae . ' ' I do believe you , Connie . Forgive me . ' There was a long silence , during which Conway was not ashamed to ...
... least turn in the cards . So help me Heaven , I would give my right hand to see you out of this , and safe at Shanghae . ' ' I do believe you , Connie . Forgive me . ' There was a long silence , during which Conway was not ashamed to ...
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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.