The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1872 |
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... thought of young men marrying old wives . DELINA . — Where , I pray you , does he ever allude to his marriage ? The ... thoughts and dreams and sighs , Wishes and tears , poor fancy's followers ; " and to this special one she responds ...
... thought of young men marrying old wives . DELINA . — Where , I pray you , does he ever allude to his marriage ? The ... thoughts and dreams and sighs , Wishes and tears , poor fancy's followers ; " and to this special one she responds ...
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... thoughts . So also is it with those Shakespearian gems . Sometimes they are his own thoughts , at other times he manifestly impersonated others . Let me direct you to one of the latter . I have re- peatedly pleased myself with the fancy ...
... thoughts . So also is it with those Shakespearian gems . Sometimes they are his own thoughts , at other times he manifestly impersonated others . Let me direct you to one of the latter . I have re- peatedly pleased myself with the fancy ...
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... thought- ful expression of her face . Her features were irregular with no beauty of colouring to redeem their want of harmony , and her dress was as plain and unpretending as her person - a grey stuff gown and a black lace handkerchief ...
... thought- ful expression of her face . Her features were irregular with no beauty of colouring to redeem their want of harmony , and her dress was as plain and unpretending as her person - a grey stuff gown and a black lace handkerchief ...
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... thought Maurice , as he looked up at Marguerite's dwelling with its stone porch , its deeply embayed windows , and their rich ornamental tracery and mouldings . The door was opened by Mère Monica , whose quaint figure and antiquated ...
... thought Maurice , as he looked up at Marguerite's dwelling with its stone porch , its deeply embayed windows , and their rich ornamental tracery and mouldings . The door was opened by Mère Monica , whose quaint figure and antiquated ...
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... thought she could ever look , that he began to consider her , if not pretty , yet something better . He remembered what the lady said whom Carlyle quotes when speaking of Varn- hagen Von Ense's famous wife , Rachel , “ Are not all ...
... thought she could ever look , that he began to consider her , if not pretty , yet something better . He remembered what the lady said whom Carlyle quotes when speaking of Varn- hagen Von Ense's famous wife , Rachel , “ Are not all ...
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Page 3 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 225 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 3 - Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Page 279 - Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Page 320 - It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends, and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honourable connection will avow it is their first purpose to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution with all the power and authority of the State.
Page 450 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 226 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 223 - Moved to the window near, and see Once more before my dying eyes, ' Bathed in the sacred dews of morn The wide aerial landscape spread — The world which was ere I was born, The world which lasts when I am dead.
Page 226 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful...
Page 320 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.