London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, Volume 1William Clowes and Sons, 1862 |
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Page 65
... Rupert Ansted , sat enjoying Laura's discomfiture . Before the advent of Mr. Mills , Rupert had been a small king among us . No party was complete without him , no one else preferred before him . Now , indeed , things were different ...
... Rupert Ansted , sat enjoying Laura's discomfiture . Before the advent of Mr. Mills , Rupert had been a small king among us . No party was complete without him , no one else preferred before him . Now , indeed , things were different ...
Page 66
... Rupert asked , ' Was it at all like a cherubim ? ' by which I afterwards discovered he meant a seraphine ; but Mr. Mills silenced him at once , and proceeded to inoculate us all with the har- monium mania , which has become so prevalent ...
... Rupert asked , ' Was it at all like a cherubim ? ' by which I afterwards discovered he meant a seraphine ; but Mr. Mills silenced him at once , and proceeded to inoculate us all with the har- monium mania , which has become so prevalent ...
Page 67
... Rupert Ansted cried softly , ' Hear , hear ! ' But , ' continued our reformer , ' with such a musician as Miss Hol- croft at our head , we could have no fears for our ultimate success . ' ' I am sure there are many good voices in the ...
... Rupert Ansted cried softly , ' Hear , hear ! ' But , ' continued our reformer , ' with such a musician as Miss Hol- croft at our head , we could have no fears for our ultimate success . ' ' I am sure there are many good voices in the ...
Page 68
... Rupert Ansted tells a story of having one day looked in at the window of a cottage , and having seen us in the act of trying the voice of an old woman who could not have been less than seventy years of age . She sat on a three- legged ...
... Rupert Ansted tells a story of having one day looked in at the window of a cottage , and having seen us in the act of trying the voice of an old woman who could not have been less than seventy years of age . She sat on a three- legged ...
Page 69
... Rupert did nothing but jest at us for undertaking to train the whole congregation , as he said . But it was no laughing matter with us : never were women more serious in any project ; and at last even naughty Rupert with mock solem ...
... Rupert did nothing but jest at us for undertaking to train the whole congregation , as he said . But it was no laughing matter with us : never were women more serious in any project ; and at last even naughty Rupert with mock solem ...
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Page 256 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 140 - ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 42 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 351 - For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 44 - There were hills, which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate^ seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...
Page 42 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 78 - Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness — to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
Page 264 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 44 - ... comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Page 150 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.