London Society, Volume 16; Volume 18James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1870 |
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... idea was studiously disseminated that the glories of Bond were fast depart- ing . A few years more , and it would be on a par , as far as regarded the vivacity of its scene , with the thoroughfares of Wimpole or Wig- more , the ...
... idea was studiously disseminated that the glories of Bond were fast depart- ing . A few years more , and it would be on a par , as far as regarded the vivacity of its scene , with the thoroughfares of Wimpole or Wig- more , the ...
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... idea of the favourite fresh strawberry - ice , and refuses to come down from the seventh heaven of delight to taste the curious cup which Edwin used to brew so well . It is pleasant , it is even refreshing , to hear the unsophisticated ...
... idea of the favourite fresh strawberry - ice , and refuses to come down from the seventh heaven of delight to taste the curious cup which Edwin used to brew so well . It is pleasant , it is even refreshing , to hear the unsophisticated ...
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... idea of a good thing is something which from its multitudinous hues reminds you strongly of a coloured photograph of the interior of the kaleidoscope worked off by some instantaneous process . Scenes of nineteenth- century life , and ...
... idea of a good thing is something which from its multitudinous hues reminds you strongly of a coloured photograph of the interior of the kaleidoscope worked off by some instantaneous process . Scenes of nineteenth- century life , and ...
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James Hogg, Florence Marryat. gree of gaudiness , make up Thun- derbolt's idea of high art . And men of this order it is whose influence is most prejudicial to the interests of English art - men whose standard of execution is show ...
James Hogg, Florence Marryat. gree of gaudiness , make up Thun- derbolt's idea of high art . And men of this order it is whose influence is most prejudicial to the interests of English art - men whose standard of execution is show ...
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... idea of his that I was not a fit visitor at the manor - house . However , he sat down , and began to talk with his usual ease . Presently the new page announced another visitor , one of the Saunterers . He , too , entered in an assured ...
... idea of his that I was not a fit visitor at the manor - house . However , he sat down , and began to talk with his usual ease . Presently the new page announced another visitor , one of the Saunterers . He , too , entered in an assured ...
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Page 80 - ... that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. I have seen a fan so very angry, that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing, that I have been glad for the lady's sake the lover was at a sufficient distance from it.
Page 80 - There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter.
Page 93 - tis a quiet spirit-healing nook! Which all, methinks, would love; but chiefly he, The humble man, who, in his youthful years, Knew just so much of folly, as had made His early manhood more securely wise! Here he might lie on fern or...
Page 20 - But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that to the Registry books. A man is as old as he's feeling ; A woman, as old as she looks...
Page 478 - Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the waving of the robes of those whose faces see God.
Page 93 - While from the singing lark (that sings unseen The minstrelsy that solitude loves best) , And from the sun, and from the breezy air, Sweet influences trembled o'er his frame; And he, with many feelings, many thoughts, Made up a meditative joy, and found Religious meanings in the forms of Nature!
Page 80 - Fans, each of them shakes her fan at me with a smile, then gives her right-hand woman a tap upon the shoulder, then presses her lips with the extremity of her fan, then lets her arms fall in an easy motion, and stands in readiness to receive the next word of command.
Page 555 - Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry ' itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right
Page 273 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Page 271 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of...