Maud Atherton, المجلد 2J. Blackwood, 1879 |
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agony answered appearance Arvale's asked Beatrice beautiful bigamy Blanche Calverley card sharping Charlie Alcester child criminal novel death Deed of Blood dream earnest Edith Ashford Elverley enquired Ernest Cradley excited eyes face Faerie Queene fancy fascinated feeling Fleet Street forgiveness genius gentle girl gladness hair hand heard heart Horace Arvale Kensington knew Lady Glendale lady writers laughing Linley little Nellie Yempson little Raven lives London looked marriage married Maud Maud's mind minutes misery Miss Ashford Miss Edith mother mystery never night once passionate Philip James Bailey play poor Ralph Atherton recognise replied Arthur rich in love ruined Sarah scene Scrodge Scrump seemed Sir Thomas smile sorrow speak spoke story strange streets talk tears tell theatre thing thought to-night told triumph truth Twelfth Night utter voice watch weary wife woman wonder words write young actress
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الصفحة 146 - But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And wither'd in my hand. My hand was next to them, and then my heart ; I took, without more thinking, in good part Time's gentle admonition ; Who did so sweetly death's sad taste convey, Making my mind to smell my fatal day, Yet sugaring the suspicion.
الصفحة 208 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
الصفحة 1 - Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant orange-groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours : it is a stern pilgrimage through burning sandy solitudes, through regions of thickribbed ice.
الصفحة 146 - SWIFTER far than summer's flight, Swifter far than youth's delight, Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone: As the earth when leaves are dead, As the night when sleep is sped, As the heart when joy is fled, I am left lone, alone.
الصفحة 179 - I have no more to say, but linger still, And dare not set my seal upon this sheet, And yet I may as well the task fulfil, My misery can scarce be more complete: I had not lived till now, could sorrow kill; Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet, And I must even survive this last adieu, And bear with life to love and pray for you!
الصفحة 56 - Ophelia What means this, my lord? Hamlet Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. Ophelia Belike this show imports the argument of the play. [Enter Prologue] Hamlet We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all.
الصفحة 211 - ... name must stand with Thackeray's, although so much in the one was antipathetic to the other. The same may also be said of Sterne and Thackeray, in spite of the resemblance in form which we have already pointed out. Who can imagine Sterne loving a child, unless it were a little girl and he thinking what she would be like when she grew to be a woman ? His mind is much more akin to Rousseau's than to Thackeray's. Goldsmith, Steele, and Lamb, on the other hand, each in his own way, have strong sympathies...
الصفحة 93 - Compose yourself — do now — there' sa good soul." " Absalom," said I to his companion, " will you condescend to inform me to what I am indebted for the honour of this very seasonable visit ?" "Don't say a word about it, my dear fellow," said Jack, anticipating the answer of the other.
الصفحة 104 - I did not expect to have the pleasure of seeing you this evening, Miss Ashford,
الصفحة 40 - Arthur, drawing a long breath, " her scene with the priest was one of the finest things I ever saw in my life. It was an artistic triumph of yours Alcester to virtually end the play there, nine authors out of ten would have added a stabbing scene and spoilt it all.