The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 10Macmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... standing between the public and the composer , he aims to be as little conspicuous as possible . Herein , we contend , he is absolutely right , but the right , in this case , as in so many others , entails much risk of a ...
... standing between the public and the composer , he aims to be as little conspicuous as possible . Herein , we contend , he is absolutely right , but the right , in this case , as in so many others , entails much risk of a ...
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... standing by ; " for my coming down let me shift for myself . " As he laid his head on the block he begged the executioner to wait a moment while he carefully placed his beard out of the reach of the axe , for , he said , " it hath not ...
... standing by ; " for my coming down let me shift for myself . " As he laid his head on the block he begged the executioner to wait a moment while he carefully placed his beard out of the reach of the axe , for , he said , " it hath not ...
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... standing where seamen of the old school would expect to find it , is stepped right amidships , with the foremast and mizzen- mast at exactly equal distances from it . Yet this arrangement is possessed of one wards . Her first voyage was ...
... standing where seamen of the old school would expect to find it , is stepped right amidships , with the foremast and mizzen- mast at exactly equal distances from it . Yet this arrangement is possessed of one wards . Her first voyage was ...
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... standing in the open window of the library of Pascal House . She had been thinking of her recent visit to the King's Cave , where she had left food ; and of the fact that Carbourd was not there . She raised her face towards the moon and ...
... standing in the open window of the library of Pascal House . She had been thinking of her recent visit to the King's Cave , where she had left food ; and of the fact that Carbourd was not there . She raised her face towards the moon and ...
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... standing on a narrow ledge with no room for the emotions , and that Miss Sally had just put a nail in her mouth and a start might be dangerous , checked him . To this may be added a new jealousy of her previous experiences , which he ...
... standing on a narrow ledge with no room for the emotions , and that Miss Sally had just put a nail in her mouth and a start might be dangerous , checked him . To this may be added a new jealousy of her previous experiences , which he ...
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Page 310 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 158 - Cordelia, that never chang'd word with each other in the Original. This renders Cordelia's Indifference and her Father's Passion in the first Scene probable. It likewise gives Countenance to Edgar's Disguise, making that a generous Design that was before a poor Shift to save his Life.
Page 347 - And now, beloved Stowey! I behold Thy church-tower, and, methinks, the four huge elms Clustering, which mark the mansion of my friend; And close behind them, hidden from my view, Is my own lowly cottage, where my babe And my babe's mother dwell in peace!
Page 535 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha...
Page 534 - We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town; We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down. Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need, Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to iead.
Page 164 - The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures.
Page 519 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 161 - A king, aye, every inch a king, Such Barry doth appear; But Garrick's quite a different thing — He's every inch King Lear.
Page 164 - Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily.
Page 459 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for foxhunters and bear abundance of ruddy complexioned children.