Blackwood's Magazine, Հատոր 22 |
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... contempt for John Bull's bread and cheese , as he can do for Paddy's potatoes . I do not say this in any unkindness , but only to correct a false impression of superiority which the boors dwelling on the east side of the Channel ...
... contempt for John Bull's bread and cheese , as he can do for Paddy's potatoes . I do not say this in any unkindness , but only to correct a false impression of superiority which the boors dwelling on the east side of the Channel ...
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I was sitting with your friend , Sir John , in his study , when a servant came to tell him there was one waiting to see him on business in the justice room , if he was at leisure . ' We walked down to the apartment where he usually ...
I was sitting with your friend , Sir John , in his study , when a servant came to tell him there was one waiting to see him on business in the justice room , if he was at leisure . ' We walked down to the apartment where he usually ...
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John Somers himself was clad in a suit of sober pepper - and - salt , the decent and becoming livery of his reverend master , in whose service he had grown grey , and been advanced , by long - tried worth and affection , something ...
John Somers himself was clad in a suit of sober pepper - and - salt , the decent and becoming livery of his reverend master , in whose service he had grown grey , and been advanced , by long - tried worth and affection , something ...
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The double gable ( the same John Somers had pointed out to me from the hill top ) was surmounted on each pinnacle by stone balls similar to those on the entrance pillars . One was quite wound and matted over with ivy , of which only a ...
The double gable ( the same John Somers had pointed out to me from the hill top ) was surmounted on each pinnacle by stone balls similar to those on the entrance pillars . One was quite wound and matted over with ivy , of which only a ...
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Five servants composed the in - door establishment - Mr John and Mrs Betty having authority over the Corps de Cuisine , under the mild control of the higher powers , for Mrs Helen , though reposing perfect confidence in her old and ...
Five servants composed the in - door establishment - Mr John and Mrs Betty having authority over the Corps de Cuisine , under the mild control of the higher powers , for Mrs Helen , though reposing perfect confidence in her old and ...
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Էջ 38 - Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy:— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from...
Էջ 38 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Էջ 534 - On him, who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side.
Էջ 26 - Away, away, o'er the foaming main !" — This was the free and the joyous strain — " There are clearer skies than ours, afar, We will shape our course by a brighter star ; There are plains whose verdure no foot hath press'd, And whose wealth is all for the first brave guest." " But alas ! that we should go...
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Էջ 547 - He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
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Էջ 581 - Colonel to have meant rightly on this subject, as on most others ; but, as there is a good deal to be said on the other side, and...