The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 234F. Jefferies, 1873 |
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... wish her to say that I have married a dowdy . " I ransacked my poor little wardrobe with dismay . What else could I be but a dowdy ? I cried with vexation as I saw how poor a figure I should make at Lady Mary's in my cheap silk dress ...
... wish her to say that I have married a dowdy . " I ransacked my poor little wardrobe with dismay . What else could I be but a dowdy ? I cried with vexation as I saw how poor a figure I should make at Lady Mary's in my cheap silk dress ...
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... wish I could be happy , but I never wake in the morning without longing that the day was already at an end . We have prayers at eight o'clock , then breakfast , teach and do parish work till dinner - time , after which we sit in the ...
... wish I could be happy , but I never wake in the morning without longing that the day was already at an end . We have prayers at eight o'clock , then breakfast , teach and do parish work till dinner - time , after which we sit in the ...
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... wish myself dead , being the occa- sion of them all . Meantime , Harry has only written two short letters ; in the first he said that he had so far settled affairs as to be able to accept the temporary post abroad he had before filled ...
... wish myself dead , being the occa- sion of them all . Meantime , Harry has only written two short letters ; in the first he said that he had so far settled affairs as to be able to accept the temporary post abroad he had before filled ...
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... this matter over . Meanwhile , I drink to your fame , Nicodemus , and wish you in the traditional good old fashion A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! ' " Nic put his glass to his lips , and pushed An Editorial Mystery . 55.
... this matter over . Meanwhile , I drink to your fame , Nicodemus , and wish you in the traditional good old fashion A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! ' " Nic put his glass to his lips , and pushed An Editorial Mystery . 55.
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... wish to ask one favour , " said the old gentleman . " Name it - your wishes shall be commands to - night at least . " " It is , sir , that your own beautiful story of " - " No further compliments , Nic , an you love us , " I said ...
... wish to ask one favour , " said the old gentleman . " Name it - your wishes shall be commands to - night at least . " " It is , sir , that your own beautiful story of " - " No further compliments , Nic , an you love us , " I said ...
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Page 324 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page 311 - Sans check, to good and bad : but when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander. What plagues, and what portents! what mutiny! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture ! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Page 636 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 659 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue, (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words.
Page 422 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 655 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 419 - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; — a miserable world : — As I do live by food, I met a fool ; Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, — and yet a motley fool. Good morrow, fool, quoth I : No, sir...
Page 635 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 636 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible!
Page 646 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it : it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin.