MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 24Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1871 |
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... beauty ; " and Dennis went on smoking . Mrs. Fagg had been right on one point ; Miss Matthews was so eager to obey the Rector's summons , that she arrived at Ashton next day , very soon after Mr.Beaufort and Nuna had departed . She did ...
... beauty ; " and Dennis went on smoking . Mrs. Fagg had been right on one point ; Miss Matthews was so eager to obey the Rector's summons , that she arrived at Ashton next day , very soon after Mr.Beaufort and Nuna had departed . She did ...
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... was Patty - Patty , so radiant in her glowing beauty that you felt at once the room had wanted her to frame with its quiet contrast ; Patty dressed to perfection , both as to style and fashion c 2 Patty . 19 Patty, the Heiress.
... was Patty - Patty , so radiant in her glowing beauty that you felt at once the room had wanted her to frame with its quiet contrast ; Patty dressed to perfection , both as to style and fashion c 2 Patty . 19 Patty, the Heiress.
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... beauty imposed for the moment upon his balanced mind and seldom erring judg- ment . Ingres went back to it next morning , and looked again . It had many charms for all . " Yes , " said he to his companion , " there is something in it ...
... beauty imposed for the moment upon his balanced mind and seldom erring judg- ment . Ingres went back to it next morning , and looked again . It had many charms for all . " Yes , " said he to his companion , " there is something in it ...
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... beauty ? " - he who said that " chefs - d'œuvres were never made to dazzle , " and who knew that their merit lay oftenest in their gracious calm ! Nor , while faithful in his adherence to all of good in David's teaching , was he want ...
... beauty ? " - he who said that " chefs - d'œuvres were never made to dazzle , " and who knew that their merit lay oftenest in their gracious calm ! Nor , while faithful in his adherence to all of good in David's teaching , was he want ...
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... Beauty , made upon his palette no demands which it could not satisfy . And An- gelica , who lights up the picture with her white body , strained and writhing , buffeted by rude winds and in an agony of terror , can have no resemblance ...
... Beauty , made upon his palette no demands which it could not satisfy . And An- gelica , who lights up the picture with her white body , strained and writhing , buffeted by rude winds and in an agony of terror , can have no resemblance ...
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Page 50 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 277 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 194 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 222 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Page 150 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
Page 45 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 41 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 351 - I cannot read them now. — 0 gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 45 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 278 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.