Blackwood's Magazine, Հատոր 22 |
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... year - the high priceseverything conspired to urge the importers to import as much foreign corn as possible , and as soon as possible . A larger flush of employment for shipping than this could scarcely take place . What followed ?
... year - the high priceseverything conspired to urge the importers to import as much foreign corn as possible , and as soon as possible . A larger flush of employment for shipping than this could scarcely take place . What followed ?
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... instigated the outrages and comforted the perpetrators of them ; but when the natural consequence ( though they had not foreseen it ) followed , that the Whiteboys assailed the instigators themselves , and when the burning and VOL .
... instigated the outrages and comforted the perpetrators of them ; but when the natural consequence ( though they had not foreseen it ) followed , that the Whiteboys assailed the instigators themselves , and when the burning and VOL .
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well regulated village , and a sober " There is but one direct line that either be an acute or obtuse angle , " can be followed , and any other would resolved to proceed right forward , on said the Dominie ; " therefore I am gonal ...
well regulated village , and a sober " There is but one direct line that either be an acute or obtuse angle , " can be followed , and any other would resolved to proceed right forward , on said the Dominie ; " therefore I am gonal ...
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Very well , sir , ' says I ; and so I followed his directions . I procured the lime ; and as I was to come privately in the evening to deposit it in the coffin , in company with the Doctor alone , I was putting off the time in my ...
Very well , sir , ' says I ; and so I followed his directions . I procured the lime ; and as I was to come privately in the evening to deposit it in the coffin , in company with the Doctor alone , I was putting off the time in my ...
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I deposited that in the coffin , screwed down the lid , and left it , and the funeral followed in due course , the whole of which the laird viewed from my window , and gave the Doctor a hearty day's cursing for daring to support his ...
I deposited that in the coffin , screwed down the lid , and left it , and the funeral followed in due course , the whole of which the laird viewed from my window , and gave the Doctor a hearty day's cursing for daring to support his ...
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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...
Էջ 201 - Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse which hath carried me many a mile, and I thank God with much ease...
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.
Էջ 497 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the...
Էջ 201 - As soon as he was perfectly recovered from this sickness, he took a journey from Oxford to Exeter, to satisfy and see his good Mother, being accompanied with a countryman and companion of his own College, and both on foot ; which was then either more in fashion, or want of money, or their humility made it so: but on foot they went, and took Salisbury in their way, purposely to see the good Bishop, who made Mr. Hooker and his companion dine with him at his own table : which Mr. Hooker boasted of with...
Էջ 499 - Watchful and agile, uttering voices wild And harsh, yet in accordance with the waves Upon the beach, the winds in caverns moaning, Or winds and waves abroad upon the water. Some sought their food among the finny shoals, Swift darting from the clouds, emerging soon With slender captives glittering in their beaks ; These in recesses of steep crags constructed Their eyries inaccessible, and trained Their hardy broods to forage in all weathers...
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...