Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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... never hope to repay -agree to allow the oldest and most confiding of my friends to do so— M. Duplessis , never ! If I carried the porter's knot of an Auvergnat , I should still remain gentilhomme and Breton . " Duplessis , habitually ...
... never hope to repay -agree to allow the oldest and most confiding of my friends to do so— M. Duplessis , never ! If I carried the porter's knot of an Auvergnat , I should still remain gentilhomme and Breton . " Duplessis , habitually ...
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... never be mine . But bear with me a little , I shall soon recover . " " Valérie , when I made you the promise you now think I cannot keep , I spoke only from that con- viction of power to promote the happiness of a child which nature ...
... never be mine . But bear with me a little , I shall soon recover . " " Valérie , when I made you the promise you now think I cannot keep , I spoke only from that con- viction of power to promote the happiness of a child which nature ...
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... never fade away ; they never weaken ; they re- main in force with pitiless persist- ence , and French parents pay more attention to them than to what may be only a passing inclination in their sons and daughters . And it must be borne ...
... never fade away ; they never weaken ; they re- main in force with pitiless persist- ence , and French parents pay more attention to them than to what may be only a passing inclination in their sons and daughters . And it must be borne ...
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... never looked at , and probably have never been read ; all they do is to confirm the thought that their proprietors look to other people , and not to print , for fresh impressions . But conversation , whatever be its merit , whatever be ...
... never looked at , and probably have never been read ; all they do is to confirm the thought that their proprietors look to other people , and not to print , for fresh impressions . But conversation , whatever be its merit , whatever be ...
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... never despaired — indeed , he seemed not to know what despair was . Even in the worst days he had never fal- tered for an instant in his belief of final success , and he now saw that he must rouse once more the old spirit of Guipuzcoa ...
... never despaired — indeed , he seemed not to know what despair was . Even in the worst days he had never fal- tered for an instant in his belief of final success , and he now saw that he must rouse once more the old spirit of Guipuzcoa ...
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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.