The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, Volume 2Ward, Lock and Bowden, Limited, 1895 |
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Page 302 - A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves, was tenanted by numberless flocks and herds, which seemed to wander unrestrained and unbounded through the rich pastures.
Page 208 - Four hundred years of memory," continued Joe, "are crowded into that dark old church, and the great flood of change beats round the walls, and shakes the door in vain, but never enters. The dead stand thick together there, as if to make a brave resistance to the moving world outside, which jars upon their slumber. It is a church of the dead. I cannot fancy...
Page 282 - Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.
Page 461 - Thank you. And, by the way, my correspondents desire me to pay in to your account at the bank on their behalf the sum of five thousand pounds. This I will do to-day." " I am obliged to you. Now I think I must be going. To tell the truth, I hardly know whether I am standing on my head or my heels.
Page 587 - When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him ; but maintain a correspondence by letters with those of his acquaintance which are of most worth. And let his travel appear rather in his discourse than in his apparel or gesture ; and in his discourse let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories...
Page 302 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Page 516 - For each championship game two balls shall be furnished by the home club to the umpire for use. When the ball in play is batted over the fence or stands, on to foul ground out of sight of the players, the other ball shall be immediately put into play by the umpire. As often as one of the two in use shall be lost a new one must be substituted, so that the umpire shall at all times after the game begins have two for use. The moment the umpire delivers a new or alternate ball to the pitcher it comes...
Page 306 - The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792.
Page 519 - No tears are needed — our cheeks are dry, We have none to waste upon living woe ; Shall we sigh for one who has ceased to sigh, Having gone, my friends, where we all must go...
Page 587 - ... let it appear that he doth not change his country manners for those of foreign parts ; but only prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country.