The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1872 |
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... beautiful one beginning : " Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore , So do our minutes hasten to their end ; " and yet he comforts himself that his verse shall live to praise her worth , despite Time's cruel hand . The same ...
... beautiful one beginning : " Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore , So do our minutes hasten to their end ; " and yet he comforts himself that his verse shall live to praise her worth , despite Time's cruel hand . The same ...
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... beautiful . Whether the great master did or not , he was evidently much interested . He made a few criticisms on her work which the girl receiv- ed with grateful intelligence , and before he went away he asked her name and resi- dence ...
... beautiful . Whether the great master did or not , he was evidently much interested . He made a few criticisms on her work which the girl receiv- ed with grateful intelligence , and before he went away he asked her name and resi- dence ...
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... beautiful gardens where the trees were putting forth their first green leaves , and the earliest flowers beginning to open . Children and nurse - maids , soldiers in their uniforms , priests in their robes , students , grisettes , and ...
... beautiful gardens where the trees were putting forth their first green leaves , and the earliest flowers beginning to open . Children and nurse - maids , soldiers in their uniforms , priests in their robes , students , grisettes , and ...
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... beautiful shadow , producing a variety of picturesque effects which delight- ed the young painter . ( 6 ' Truly , this is not an unfit abode for an artist , " thought Maurice , as he looked up at Marguerite's dwelling with its stone ...
... beautiful shadow , producing a variety of picturesque effects which delight- ed the young painter . ( 6 ' Truly , this is not an unfit abode for an artist , " thought Maurice , as he looked up at Marguerite's dwelling with its stone ...
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... beautiful faces ugly to begin with ? ” He now remarked that the shape of her head was fine and noble , and her forehead and brows beautiful ; that her dark eyes were deep and soft ; her smile sweet and bright , and her black hair glossy ...
... beautiful faces ugly to begin with ? ” He now remarked that the shape of her head was fine and noble , and her forehead and brows beautiful ; that her dark eyes were deep and soft ; her smile sweet and bright , and her black hair glossy ...
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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 279 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie ; Peace in her vineyard — yes!
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 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 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 226 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Page 337 - Received more than all, it loved more than ever, Where none wanted but it, could belong to the giver...
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 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.