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Page 99 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 158 - O Hamlet, speak no more : Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Page 158 - Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 237 - Besides many others, the following Serial Stories have appeared in the pages of TEMPLE BAR .-— The New Magdalen. BY WILKIE COLLINS. Red as a Rose is She. BY Miss BROUGHTON. Lady Adelaide's Oath.
Page 237 - We to Visit Her ? BY MRS. EDWARDES. The Frozen Deep. BY WILKIE COLLINS. Patricia Kemball. BY MRS. LYNN LINTON. Good-bye, Sweetheart ! BY Miss BROUGHTON. A Vagabond Heroine. BY MRS. EDWARDES. John Marchmont's Legacy. BY Miss BRADDON, The Poison of Asps. BY MRS. Ross CHURCH. The Wooing O't. BY MRS. ALEXANDER. A Race for a Wife. BY HAWLEY SMART. Archie Lovell. BY MRS. EDWARDES. " Cherry Ripe." By the Author of " COMIN' THRO
Page 237 - John Marchmont's Legacy,' by Miss BRADDON. •The Poison of Asps,' by Mrs. Ross CHURCH. 'The Wooing O't,' by Mrs. ALEXANDER. 'A Race for a Wife,
Page 107 - Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress.
Page 237 - —GUARDIAN. MONTHLY, PRICE ONE SHILLING, THE TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. To be obtained at every Bookseller's or Railway Bookstall. Containing 144 pages. ' Who does not welcome "TEMPLE BAR?" '— JOHN BULL. ' TEMPLE BAR is sparkling and brilliant. It might command a constituency by its fiction alone, but it takes so much care of its more solid matter, that if there were no stories at all there is enough to interest the...
Page 18 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.