The Argosy, 32. kötetMrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood Strahan & Company, 1881 A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems. |
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... Grubb : for , with them , business discussions were always confined to their legitimate province - the City . The Lady Adela , Mr. Grubb's rebellious but very charming wife , quitted the room speedily , leaving them to the discussion ...
... Grubb : for , with them , business discussions were always confined to their legitimate province - the City . The Lady Adela , Mr. Grubb's rebellious but very charming wife , quitted the room speedily , leaving them to the discussion ...
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... Grubb threw his thoughts back on Saturday morning . The reminiscence was unpleasant . The scene which had taken place with his wife was painful to him , disgraceful to her . He had drawn no cheque . " No , " he answered , thinking a ...
... Grubb threw his thoughts back on Saturday morning . The reminiscence was unpleasant . The scene which had taken place with his wife was painful to him , disgraceful to her . He had drawn no cheque . " No , " he answered , thinking a ...
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... Grubb , his head all in a puzzle . " Who drew the cheque ? Where's the money ? Howard , there must be some mistake in your informa- tion . " " It was Saturday morning that you left the cheque book at home , and sent Cleveland for it ...
... Grubb , his head all in a puzzle . " Who drew the cheque ? Where's the money ? Howard , there must be some mistake in your informa- tion . " " It was Saturday morning that you left the cheque book at home , and sent Cleveland for it ...
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... Grubb rose and rang the bell , staggered nearly out of his senses ; and , until it was answered , not another word was spoken . Each gentleman was busy with his own thoughts . Richard , " began the master to his servant , " when Mr ...
... Grubb rose and rang the bell , staggered nearly out of his senses ; and , until it was answered , not another word was spoken . Each gentleman was busy with his own thoughts . Richard , " began the master to his servant , " when Mr ...
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... Grubb did not know what to make of it , and his faith in Charles Cleveland began to waver . The most prejudiced mind cannot altogether fight against palpable facts . Mr. Howard opened his pocket book , took the cheque in question from ...
... Grubb did not know what to make of it , and his faith in Charles Cleveland began to waver . The most prejudiced mind cannot altogether fight against palpable facts . Mr. Howard opened his pocket book , took the cheque in question from ...
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355. oldal - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
129. oldal - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
141. oldal - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
379. oldal - My actions," he writes about this time to a friend, " are as regular as those of St. Dunstan's quarter-boys. Three pages of history after breakfast (equivalent to five in small quarto printing) ; then to transcribe and copy for the press, or to make my selections and...
134. oldal - He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
380. oldal - Fenwick, or the calling in of the clipped coinage), he would sit down and write off the whole story at a headlong pace, sketching in the outlines under the genial and audacious impulse of a first conception, and securing in black and white each idea and epithet and turn of phrase, as it flowed straight from his busy brain to his rapid fingers.
146. oldal - LEADER • JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been...
380. oldal - As soon as Macaulay had finished his rough draft, he began to fill it in at the rate of six sides of foolscap every morning ; written in so large a hand, and with such a multitude of erasures, that the whole six pages were, on an average, compressed into two pages of print. This portion he called his 'task,' and he was never quite easy unless he completed it daily.
123. oldal - I sometimes say to myself, that, were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
379. oldal - The course of his day was best known .after he was blind. When he first rose, he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and then studied till twelve ; then took some exercise for an hour ; then dined, then played on the organ, and...