Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volumen 270F. Jefferies, 1891 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 48
Página 19
... play till they had " blowed him down . " Society possesses no such violent antidote to the talking monopolist ; and many a party of friends has been marred by his unsympathetic per- formances . Good conversation , indeed , demands some ...
... play till they had " blowed him down . " Society possesses no such violent antidote to the talking monopolist ; and many a party of friends has been marred by his unsympathetic per- formances . Good conversation , indeed , demands some ...
Página 21
... play the fool . The improvement of either sort helps the other . But this latter sort of conversation , the conversation of recreation , will always hold by far the larger space in men's thoughts . Knowledge we may get from books , but ...
... play the fool . The improvement of either sort helps the other . But this latter sort of conversation , the conversation of recreation , will always hold by far the larger space in men's thoughts . Knowledge we may get from books , but ...
Página 27
... play an equally im- portant rôle in relation to this power of penetration . The little barbs on the body of the achene are also of service in this connection . They not only anchor the seed and prevent its being lifted when once it ...
... play an equally im- portant rôle in relation to this power of penetration . The little barbs on the body of the achene are also of service in this connection . They not only anchor the seed and prevent its being lifted when once it ...
Página 41
... play drew so many strangers , wished to develop it as a permanent institu- There was one of those curious , long - abolished potentates - a Prince Bishop of Augsburg - who fancied the little town , and had repaired to it regularly for ...
... play drew so many strangers , wished to develop it as a permanent institu- There was one of those curious , long - abolished potentates - a Prince Bishop of Augsburg - who fancied the little town , and had repaired to it regularly for ...
Página 82
... play ' ; its days are numbered . The drama of the future is to be a mere inconsequent prolongation of sketches , ' snatched at random from our mistress Nature . " Who shall say ? Perchance in the dim future the new ism which is to turn ...
... play ' ; its days are numbered . The drama of the future is to be a mere inconsequent prolongation of sketches , ' snatched at random from our mistress Nature . " Who shall say ? Perchance in the dim future the new ism which is to turn ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
Algol ancient appeared Aunt Hannah Bank Bank of England Barber Surgeons barbers beadle beautiful beer Biddy body Bournemouth called Carglen CCLXX century character Charles Charlotte Cushman church comets common lodging-house Company course Covenanters Cow Court Crispi curious dancing-girl death drink E. L. Davenport eels elvers England English eyes face favour Featherstone feet Francesco Crispi friends girl give hair hand head heart honour Inns of Chancery interest islands John Kenneth King kirk known lady less lived London looked Lord Macaulay matter meteorites miles minister Miss Montrose natural never night once paper-knife parish passed perhaps play present punishment round Sally Scotland seemed seen shillings Sicily skins star Stendhal surgeons Sweepstone tell Theatre thing tion told town tramps tree tribe turned village Wimborne woman women Woodrough words young
Pasajes populares
Página 68 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Página 17 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.
Página 369 - Now I'ma wretch, indeed. Methinks I see him already in the cart, sweeter and more lovely than the nosegay in his hand!— I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity! What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace! I see him at the treel The whole circle are in tears! —even butchers weep!
Página 621 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Página 9 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Página 633 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 486 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Página 486 - There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags.
Página 193 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 9 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in...