Temple Bar, Tom 19

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Ward and Lock, 1867

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Strona 259 - They are simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance — in our comparison ol their dim...
Strona 258 - At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.
Strona 285 - I kissed the mayor's hand of the town, Who, though he wears no scarlet gown, Honours the rose and thistle : A piece of coral to the mace, Which there I saw to serve in place, Would make a good child's whistle. At six...
Strona 273 - Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tun of the best ale in Staffordshire ; 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy ; and will be just fourteen year old the fifth day of next March, old style.
Strona 282 - No sounds of worldly toil ascending there Mar the full burst of prayer ; Lone Nature feels that she may freely breathe, And round us and beneath Are heard her sacred tones, the fitful sweep Of winds across the steep, Through withered bents — romantic note and clear, Meet for a hermit's ear...
Strona 277 - an elevated mass of land, of an irregular form, broken into numerous minor hills, many crowned by groups of picturesque rocks, provincially termed tors; and, for the most part, presenting a wild mixture of heath, bog, rocks, and rapid streams.
Strona 285 - twere known, A pound of butter had been thrown Among a pack of hounds. One glass of drink I got by chance, 'Twas claret when it was in France; But now from it much wider : I think a man might make as good With green crabs boyled, and Brazil wood, And half a pint of cyder.
Strona 261 - Why, sir, when they wear my chasubles they don't look like priests, and what's worse, the chasubles don't look like chasubles.
Strona 108 - Dennison was married to Margaret Hall at the church of St. Ethelburga, in the city, and you — are freed from your promise! You may get a certificate of the marriage — it is my wish that you should do so — and take it with you to Durant's Court to-morrow. Has more to be said ? " for Gerald lingered uneasily yet, " You have got Lucia, and I — have lost " His voice died : he turned, walked across to the window, and there, through blinding mists, stood looking out at the river, black and desolate...
Strona 114 - Seton felt and answered. Can one language ever adequately reproduce another? Can dull ink and paper transcribe what a girl's fresh voice, what the touch of a girl's lips say, to the world-wearied heart of a man like Seton, in such a moment as this ? " Forgive you, my dearest !" he cried at last, bending over her with a great reverence in his tenderness. " No, Archie. When it is a question of forgiveness, of unworthiness, between us two, I feel that it is my place to be silent. Kiss me once more;...

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