The Premier and the Painter: A Fantastic RomanceRand, McNally, 1896 - 502 pages |
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... better to - day -for a writer does not always improve with age - there is more which I should like to alter ; so much , in fact , that I have had to leave the text untouched , in order not to write a different book . After all , one ...
... better to - day -for a writer does not always improve with age - there is more which I should like to alter ; so much , in fact , that I have had to leave the text untouched , in order not to write a different book . After all , one ...
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... better ; not to expect any assistance from the audience . I cannot conclude without remarking on the shamelessness with which History has plagiarised from a romance conceived nearly a decade ago , or with- out thanking those critics and ...
... better ; not to expect any assistance from the audience . I cannot conclude without remarking on the shamelessness with which History has plagiarised from a romance conceived nearly a decade ago , or with- out thanking those critics and ...
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... better leaders than these two men , so long a stable Conservative Administration is an impossibility . Nor would even the retirement of one of them mend matters in the least . Flop pington , with Mountchapel in opposition , would be a ...
... better leaders than these two men , so long a stable Conservative Administration is an impossibility . Nor would even the retirement of one of them mend matters in the least . Flop pington , with Mountchapel in opposition , would be a ...
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... better governed if their friend Floppy were to replace the head of the Government . Floppy's friends cheered this suggestion vigorously - one of them calling out " he couldn't do worse , if he tried his level best . " The Premier sat ...
... better governed if their friend Floppy were to replace the head of the Government . Floppy's friends cheered this suggestion vigorously - one of them calling out " he couldn't do worse , if he tried his level best . " The Premier sat ...
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... better halves , and it is doubtful how far it applies to men of a philosophical cast when lost in their reflections . Be that as it may , Mr. Dawe , on the termination of his reverie , as we shall mercifully call it , proceeded ...
... better halves , and it is doubtful how far it applies to men of a philosophical cast when lost in their reflections . Be that as it may , Mr. Dawe , on the termination of his reverie , as we shall mercifully call it , proceeded ...
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ain't Arnold Floppington asked Bathbrill beauty believe Betsy Baker better Billy Simpson burst Cabinet cheers Claviger Conservatism CORONER cried Dagon Dawe's dear Downing Street Eliza emotion exclaimed eyes face feeling felt Female Suffrage flashed friends gazed girl give hand happy head heard heart hope House indignation Jack Dawe Jack's knew Lady Gwendolen Lady Harley late laugh laughter lips Lizer looked Lord Bardolph Majesty's Government Marquis mind Minister Momus mother Mountchapel murmured never night noble once painter Parnellites party passion perhaps pington politics poor Premier Radical Ramsgate Reform Bill replied resign Right Honourable Rockington round Sally saveloys seemed silence smile soul Southleigh spile stood strange Suffrage sure talk tears tell tender there's Thespis thing thought tone took Tremaine truth turned uttered vicar voice woman women wonder words
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Page 293 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 165 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Page 72 - Two things there are, -which, the oftener and the more steadfastly we consider them, fill the mind with an ever new, an ever rising admiration and reverence ; — the STARRY HEAVEN above, the MORAL LAW ivithin.
Page 492 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 396 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 239 - ... your feet: Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to soar. All things were nothing to give Once to have sense of you more, Touch you and taste of you, sweet, Think you and breathe you and live, Swept of your wings as they soar, Trodden by chance of your feet. I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet: He that hath more, let him give; He that hath wings, let him soar; Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.
Page 17 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 43 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind...
Page 356 - The flowers that bloom in the spring, Tra la, Have nothing to do with the case.
Page 355 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.