Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen215William Blackwood, 1924 |
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... better than we think . After all , it isn't so much Peking and the Court that matter nowadays as the quality of the mandarins they put into the chief Viceroy jobs - Tientsin , Hankow , and Canton . If Li Hung - chang and Liu K'un - yi ...
... better than we think . After all , it isn't so much Peking and the Court that matter nowadays as the quality of the mandarins they put into the chief Viceroy jobs - Tientsin , Hankow , and Canton . If Li Hung - chang and Liu K'un - yi ...
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... better if only the field used more common- sense . Hounds met one mile up the coast from the mouth of the Kishon . A large field met hounds . It was a bright day with the sun out , and prospects with regard to scent were not promising ...
... better if only the field used more common- sense . Hounds met one mile up the coast from the mouth of the Kishon . A large field met hounds . It was a bright day with the sun out , and prospects with regard to scent were not promising ...
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... better sports- men from the rest . We drew some barley , and General G- was soon halloaing a jack away . Bending right- handed he took us on a right - handed So a half - circle back to Hadrah bridge . Hounds got 34 [ Jan. The Armageddon ...
... better sports- men from the rest . We drew some barley , and General G- was soon halloaing a jack away . Bending right- handed he took us on a right - handed So a half - circle back to Hadrah bridge . Hounds got 34 [ Jan. The Armageddon ...
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... better , but meekly explained that the Chocolate Soldier was the hero in Bernard Shaw's ' Arms and the Man . ' Octavia , I was sure , had never read the play , but I was equally sure she would not admit it , for to have some knowledge ...
... better , but meekly explained that the Chocolate Soldier was the hero in Bernard Shaw's ' Arms and the Man . ' Octavia , I was sure , had never read the play , but I was equally sure she would not admit it , for to have some knowledge ...
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... better before we left ! But of that more anon ! Having successfully settled ourselves so literally at the seaside , it was obvious that a morning bathe was the first thing to try . Octavia objected that it was the close - season for ...
... better before we left ! But of that more anon ! Having successfully settled ourselves so literally at the seaside , it was obvious that a morning bathe was the first thing to try . Octavia objected that it was the close - season for ...
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Página 503 - All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight...
Página 95 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 813 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian* springs, Had in him those brave translunary* things That the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire...
Página 512 - I still inhabit this divine bay, reading Spanish dramas, and sailing, and listening to the most enchanting music. We have some friends on a visit to us, and my only regret is that the summer must ever pass, or that Mary has not the same predilection for this place that I have, which would induce me never to shift my quarters.
Página 502 - This scene was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii, you know, was a Greek city). They lived in harmony with nature ; and the interstices of their incomparable columns were portals, as it were, to admit the spirit of beauty which animates this glorious universe to visit those whom it inspired.
Página 805 - But what was it, this liberalism, as Dr. Newman saw it, and as it really broke the Oxford movement? It was the great middleclass liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes; in the religious sphere the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Página 211 - With that, methought a legion of foul fiends Environed me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling waked, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell ; Such terrible impression made my dream.
Página 284 - The decrees of the demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant ; and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other. Both have great power — the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing. The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly.
Página 561 - Gone like a star that through the firmament Shot and was lost, in its eccentric course Dazzling, perplexing. Yet thy heart, methinks, Was generous, noble— noble in its scorn Of all things low or little ; nothing there Sordid or servile. If imagined wrongs Pursued thee, urging thee sometimes to do Things long regretted, oft, as many know, None more than I, thy gratitude would build On slight foundations : and, if in thy life Not happy, in thy death thou surely wert, Thy wish accomplished...
Página 503 - O, but for that series of wretched wars which terminated in the Roman conquest of the world ; but for the Christian religion, which put the finishing stroke on the ancient system ; but for those changes that conducted Athens to its ruin, — to what an eminence might not humanity have arrived ! In a short time I hope to tell you something of the museum of this city.