The Argosy, Bind 10Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood Strahan & Company, 1870 A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems. |
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Side 1 - ... fled with thee, Robin Adair! What made the assembly shine? Robin Adair: What made the ball so fine? Robin was there: What, when the play was o'er, What made my heart so sore? Oh, it was parting with Robin Adair!
Side 111 - The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Side 509 - A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Side 187 - ... putting out her hand. He went red and white, and hot and cold. He lifted his hat, which he happened to be wearing, having come straight in through the glass doors, and politely murmured some words that sounded like " I beg your pardon, Miss Adair :" but he did not attempt to touch her offered hand. And then he turned short round, and traversed the room back to the garden, putting on his hat again. It seemed to her as though she had received her death-blow. There could no longer be any doubt or...
Side 29 - Bombay, there is a singular vegetable called " the sorrowful tree," because it only flourishes in the night. At sunset no flowers are to be seen, and yet after half an hour it is full of them. They yield a sweet smell, but the sun no sooner begins to shine upon them than some of them fall off, and others close up ; and thus it continues flowering in the night during the whole year.
Side 487 - Plat, in his Jewel House of Nature and Art, says, " Coral is good to be hanged about children's necks, as well to rub their gums as to preserve them from the falling sickness ; it hath also some special sympathy with nature, for the best coral being worn about the neck will turn pale and wan if the party that wears it be sick, and comes to its former colour again as they recover health.
Side 30 - I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl— No larger, tho' the goal of all the saints — Strike from the sea; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail, Which never eyes on earth again shall see.
Side 286 - There is no question but that Sir Geoffry has always had an inherent tendency to delicacy of constitution," he continued more seriously : " my partner Layne told me so. It was warded off for a time, and he grew into a strong, hearty man : it might perhaps have been warded off for good. But the blight — as you aptly express it, Lady Chavasse — came : and perhaps since then the spirit has not been able to maintain its own proper...
Side 487 - India than are the pearls of that country by the females among us: their soothsayers, too, and diviners look upon coral as an amulet endowed with sacred properties, and a sure preservative against all dangers: hence it is that they equally value it as an ornament and as an object of devotion.