The Cornhill Magazine, Količina 33 |
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Stran 10
He has asked me to marry him , " she continued , " and I want to know what you would say to such an arrangement . I don't mean to imply that the event is certain to take place ; but , as a mere supposition , what do you say to it ...
He has asked me to marry him , " she continued , " and I want to know what you would say to such an arrangement . I don't mean to imply that the event is certain to take place ; but , as a mere supposition , what do you say to it ...
Stran 77
Swift and Pope , Thomson and Gay , Congreve and Fenton , were bachelors , and the few who did marry were either , like Addison , unfortunate in their choice , or like Parnell , in the brief duration of their happiness .
Swift and Pope , Thomson and Gay , Congreve and Fenton , were bachelors , and the few who did marry were either , like Addison , unfortunate in their choice , or like Parnell , in the brief duration of their happiness .
Stran 79
She went directly to Mr. Prior , and asked him plainly , ' Do you intend to marry me or no ? ' He said many soft and pretty things ; on which she said , Sir , in refusing to answer , you do answer . I will see you no more .
She went directly to Mr. Prior , and asked him plainly , ' Do you intend to marry me or no ? ' He said many soft and pretty things ; on which she said , Sir , in refusing to answer , you do answer . I will see you no more .
Stran 86
... whereupon the lover , having tested her affection sufficiently , tells the Nut - Brown Maid that he is neither banished for his crimes nor false in his love , that he is , moreover , an earl's son , and is ready to marry as he can .
... whereupon the lover , having tested her affection sufficiently , tells the Nut - Brown Maid that he is neither banished for his crimes nor false in his love , that he is , moreover , an earl's son , and is ready to marry as he can .
Stran 105
That is , prepared to marry a nice girl of his own kind , keep the estate well in hand , and set an example of respectability and orthodoxy , family prayers and bold riding , according to the ideal of the ...
That is , prepared to marry a nice girl of his own kind , keep the estate well in hand , and set an example of respectability and orthodoxy , family prayers and bold riding , according to the ideal of the ...
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Stran 683 - I had brought with me as a bon bouche to crown the evening with. It was my birthday, and I had for the first time come from...
Stran 35 - In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity : every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Stran 28 - For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Stran 85 - THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. " I sent for Radcliff ; was so ill, That other doctors gave me over : He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill, And I was likely to recover. " But when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
Stran 683 - Wo are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts — namely, to live.
Stran 175 - ... he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing: and this discreditable mark, as I am told, stands upon record in their college registry.
Stran 80 - Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Secure, insensible ; A point of time, a moment's space Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell.
Stran 375 - By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close corner of my brain; There I embrace and kiss her, And so I both enjoy and miss her.
Stran 682 - You come to a milestone on a hill, or some place where deep ways meet under trees ; and off goes the knapsack, and down you sit to smoke a pipe in the shade. You sink into yourself, and the birds come round and look at you ; and your smoke dissipates upon the afternoon under the blue dome of heaven ; and the sun lies warm upon your feet, and the cool air visits your neck and turns aside your open shirt. If you are not happy, you must have an evil conscience.
Stran 679 - It should be gone upon alone, because freedom is of the essence ; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you ; and because you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor mince in time with a girl.