The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 14

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Macmillan and Company, 1896
 

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Página 566 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Página 374 - I have endured some two and forty years without public shame, and had a good time as I did it. If only I could secure a violent death, what a fine success! I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from a horse — ay, to be hanged, rather than pass again through that slow dissolution.
Página 94 - FRUIT SALT' is PECULIARLY ADAPTED for any CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS of the LIVER ; it possesses the power of reparation when digestion has been disturbed or lost, and PLACES the INVALID on the RIGHT TRACK to HEALTH. A WORLD of WOES is AVOIDED by those who KEEP and USE ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT.
Página 297 - Blackbird now are done: Upon the o'ergrown, loose, red-berried cover The latest of late warblers sings as one That trolls at random when the feast is over: From bush to bush the dusk-bright cobwebs hover, Silvering the dried-up rill's exhausted urn; No breeze is fluting o'er the green morass: Nor falls the thistle-down: in deep-drenched grass, Now blue, now red, the shifting dew-gems burn. VI Mine ear thus torpid held, methinks mine eye Is armed the more...
Página 429 - Tis a great task to prove one's honesty and yet not spoil one's fortune. You have tasted a little hereof in our blessed queen's time, who was more than a man, and, in troth, sometimes less than a woman.
Página 94 - This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 309 - And many good folk also, that hated her living, and glad were to see sin corrected, yet pitied they more her penance than rejoiced therein, when they considered that the protector procured it more of a corrupt intent than any virtuous affection.
Página 429 - I waited now in her presence-chamber, with ease at my food, and rest in my bed ; I am pushed from the shore of comfort, and know not where the winds and waves of a court will bear me ; I know it bringeth little comfort on earth ; and he is, I reckon, no wise man that looketh this way to heaven.

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