Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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... lady , whose hand he would deem it the highest reward of ambition to secure , that I cannot but feel deep compassion for him if that ambition has been foiled ; " No , indeed , I have not that honour 16 [ July The Parisians . — Book VIII .
... lady , whose hand he would deem it the highest reward of ambition to secure , that I cannot but feel deep compassion for him if that ambition has been foiled ; " No , indeed , I have not that honour 16 [ July The Parisians . — Book VIII .
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... lady whom M. Du- plessis has just had the honour to address . " All this while , Valérie , who was seated at the further end of the table beside the Minister , who had taken her into dinner , had been VOL . CXIV.-NO. DCXCIII . voiced ...
... lady whom M. Du- plessis has just had the honour to address . " All this while , Valérie , who was seated at the further end of the table beside the Minister , who had taken her into dinner , had been VOL . CXIV.-NO. DCXCIII . voiced ...
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... ladies retire . So when the signal was given all the guests adjourned to the salon ; and Alain quitted Isaura to ... lady friends are wont to compli- ment each other ; but Valérie an- swered curtly or sarcastically , and turned aside ...
... ladies retire . So when the signal was given all the guests adjourned to the salon ; and Alain quitted Isaura to ... lady friends are wont to compli- ment each other ; but Valérie an- swered curtly or sarcastically , and turned aside ...
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... ladies . Society is a theatre planned for their interest and to show them to the highest advantage . The heir of fame ... Lady Townsend - fortu- nate in another string to her bow- wit succeeding to beauty - expressed herself anxious to ...
... ladies . Society is a theatre planned for their interest and to show them to the highest advantage . The heir of fame ... Lady Townsend - fortu- nate in another string to her bow- wit succeeding to beauty - expressed herself anxious to ...
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... ladies , address- ing them in graceful persiflage , the thought is still uppermost . To Lady Hervey he describes the old life as the only one in which he can hope to be acceptable , and yet which he feels slipping out of , with a banter ...
... ladies , address- ing them in graceful persiflage , the thought is still uppermost . To Lady Hervey he describes the old life as the only one in which he can hope to be acceptable , and yet which he feels slipping out of , with a banter ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.