London Society, Volume 16; Volume 18James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1870 |
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... present , now that the old social classifications are completely upset , the question of marriage is sombre as the unknown future . Do the fortunes which spring up so rapidly and so magically add no column of cares to the account ...
... present , now that the old social classifications are completely upset , the question of marriage is sombre as the unknown future . Do the fortunes which spring up so rapidly and so magically add no column of cares to the account ...
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... present day are the relations between masters and servants . The first is the question of the liquor - stand . The French liquor - stand is a fetish , a household idol , in French families with moderate means . It is a taber- nacle , a ...
... present day are the relations between masters and servants . The first is the question of the liquor - stand . The French liquor - stand is a fetish , a household idol , in French families with moderate means . It is a taber- nacle , a ...
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... present themselves at the doors of Burlington House at this primitive hour , not because they deny any other portion of their time to the spectacle of pictorial art , but because they are going to make a day of it , and wish to commence ...
... present themselves at the doors of Burlington House at this primitive hour , not because they deny any other portion of their time to the spectacle of pictorial art , but because they are going to make a day of it , and wish to commence ...
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... present day , as that gen- tleman is to be seen within the University of Oxford , he deserves some attention . We move on with the crowd , and we find ourselves suddenly face to face with a very distinguished art- critic . He has come ...
... present day , as that gen- tleman is to be seen within the University of Oxford , he deserves some attention . We move on with the crowd , and we find ourselves suddenly face to face with a very distinguished art- critic . He has come ...
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... present sufferings . I found my friend below , not looking quite so cheerful as usual , though he greeted me with unusual warmth and fondness . He did not say a word about the ballot , and , as my mind was full of Pearl , I forgot the ...
... present sufferings . I found my friend below , not looking quite so cheerful as usual , though he greeted me with unusual warmth and fondness . He did not say a word about the ballot , and , as my mind was full of Pearl , I forgot the ...
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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...