... their simplicity, are suggestive, not of judicial history and placid holidays, but the well-worn ways of controversy. The nature-notes are not striking; and, finally, Mr. Worsfold carries the habit of quotation to an inordinate length. Under the title of ...

... vantage ground that he may lean upon his sword and look on while others fight, to sing no song because the blackbird’s natural notes are unapproachable, to dip no brush in colours because Nature herself paints grander pictures than any art pan imitate ...

... married to Mr. Yidal.” “Engaged?”—Jean almost bounded forward, holding her relief like torch. Ease grootod with laughter this natural note. lie arrived half an hour ago, for a supreme appeal—and it has not, you see, taken long. I ’vo just had the honour of accepting ...

... and dips—a peculiarity in its mode of flight which must have been noticed by all who have seen the bird on the wing. Its natural note is a peculiarly shrill whining whistle, often repeated. The nest may be regarded as one of the anomalies of Australia, ...

... pertaining to any other rose, except that deep-red mountain one, the woolly-leaved’’—Shakspeare ever, as usual, true to nature, noted, too —“the leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, out-sweetened not thy breath,” he makes Arveragus say of Imogen ; and ...

... the painter’s art in our Academy notice) that it stands almost alone here in its perfectly unsophisticated fidelity to nature. Note the marvellous precision, both of hue and position, of the touch of light on those placid lips, the painting of the clear ...