Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 8

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Macmillan and Company, 1863

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Page 309 - Nur der Körper eignet jenen Mächten, die das dunkle Schicksal flechten; aber frei von jeder Zeitgewalt, die Gespielin seliger Naturen, wandelt oben in des Lichtes Fluren göttlich unter Göttern die Gestalt.
Page 403 - At twilight, halted by the brook: And for the first time in her life Began to listen and look. Laughed every goblin When they spied her peeping: Came towards her hobbling, Flying, running, leaping, Puffing and blowing, Chuckling, clapping, crowing, Clucking and gobbling, Mopping and mowing...
Page 157 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Page 32 - ... of any profession, but a general elegance of manners; whereas, in a military man, you can commonly distinguish the brand of a soldier, I'homme d'epee.
Page 402 - Then fell with the first snow, While to this day no grass will grow Where she lies low: I planted daisies there a year ago That never blow. You should not loiter so.
Page 403 - Laura.' up the garden, 'Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me ; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.
Page 404 - Their mother-hearts beset with fears, Their lives bound up in tender lives; Laura would call the little ones And tell them of her early prime...
Page 34 - Thou shalt not steal ; thou shalt not kill ; thou shalt not commit adultery.
Page 158 - In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase, which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest; which, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself, in the benefits of which they are not included.
Page 30 - ... that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.

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