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From one of the upper stage-boxes Helen and Lady Gower watched the successful progress of the play with an anxiety almost as keen as that of the author. To Helen it seemed as though the giving of these lines to the public these lines which he had so often read to her, and altered to her liking was a desecration.

He is always successful, and bids fair, at the same time that he acquires high name and station for himself, to secure liberty, probably extended empire, to the Greeks." Perdita's mind was not softened by this account. He, she thought, can be great and happy without me. Would that I also had a career!

The other poem was intended for use in case his interview should not be successful. But on the way home Mr. Locker experienced an entire change of mind. He came to believe that it would be unwise for him to arrange to use either of those poems on that day. For all he knew, Miss Asher might like foreign degenerate lays, and she might be annoyed that he had interfered with one.

You see that Polton has been endeavouring to reconstitute the object, whatever it was; but he has not been very successful, for the fragments were too small and irregular and the collection too incomplete. However, here is a specimen, built up of six small pieces, which exhibits the general character of the object fairly well."

Jack's eyes brightened, as they turned towards the table when he entered the room. "And those are the gloves!" said Madame Fontaine, with her head held critically a little on one side, as if she was a connoisseur enjoying a fine picture. "How very pretty! And what good taste you have!" "I am pleased with my walk," he remarked. "I have made a successful appearance in public.

By the besiegers and besieged of Lille, some of the most brilliant feats of valor were performed that ever illustrated any war. A French officer, Monsieur du Bois, performed an act equally daring, and perfectly successful.

It enables us to develop the mental qualities we lack: efficiency, judgment, creative imagination, all that will help us to bring our life's enterprise to a successful end. Most of us are aware of thwarted abilities, powers undeveloped, impulses checked in their growth.

To be successful, and raise choice cauliflowers, is the height of the ambition of the market gardener; and, with all his experience, and with every facility at hand, he does not expect full success oftener than three years in four.

We indicate them that we may afford some help toward a nearer approximation to that perfection which is unattainable. Tom Brown at Oxford: a Sequel to School-Days at Rugby. By THOMAS HUGHES, etc. Part I. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1859. Many men write successful books; but very few have the power of making a book succeed by naturalness, simplicity, and quiet strength, as Mr.

Fleet Assistance, Reconnaissance, Spotting for Ships' Guns. The successful use of Drachen kite-balloons borne in ships at the Dardanelles led to their extensive development.