Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Հատորներ 1-2W. Orr, 1844 |
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... kind . While still a youth , he had had many long journeys on horse- back across the Pampas and the Cordilleras , and in various other directions , in pursuit of business objects . On one occasion , in ascending the Parana by naviga ...
... kind . While still a youth , he had had many long journeys on horse- back across the Pampas and the Cordilleras , and in various other directions , in pursuit of business objects . On one occasion , in ascending the Parana by naviga ...
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... kind friends had rendered our short stay agreeable . We had interchanged thoughts with one who looks cheeringly on man's social advancement , whose mind is not bounded by the mean or trivial circumstances which surround it , but looks ...
... kind friends had rendered our short stay agreeable . We had interchanged thoughts with one who looks cheeringly on man's social advancement , whose mind is not bounded by the mean or trivial circumstances which surround it , but looks ...
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... kind , that it should not be unmixed Latin and Greek , but should include such elements as shall enable the new generation to enter life not quite ignorant of the laws of nature , and more particularly of those things which concern each ...
... kind , that it should not be unmixed Latin and Greek , but should include such elements as shall enable the new generation to enter life not quite ignorant of the laws of nature , and more particularly of those things which concern each ...
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... kind . There is , in the first place , a prejudice against the general idea of the useful , as if it were something naturally in hostility to all that decorates and refines life , and would exclusively direct attention to what is gross ...
... kind . There is , in the first place , a prejudice against the general idea of the useful , as if it were something naturally in hostility to all that decorates and refines life , and would exclusively direct attention to what is gross ...
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... kind to which millions of gallons in the twenty - four hours . In the we shall allude is that of Metz , of which a number of remains of these aqueducts , some portions are elevated the arcades still remain . ' These arcades , ' says an ...
... kind to which millions of gallons in the twenty - four hours . In the we shall allude is that of Metz , of which a number of remains of these aqueducts , some portions are elevated the arcades still remain . ' These arcades , ' says an ...
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Էջ 134 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Էջ 212 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Էջ 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Էջ 47 - Work — work — work! My labor never flags; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags, That shattered roof — and this naked floor • A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there!
Էջ 172 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Էջ 194 - And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Էջ 194 - And with them the Being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Էջ 266 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Էջ 47 - Work ! work ! work ! till the brain begins to swim; work ! work ! work ! till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band ; band, and gusset, and seam ; till over the buttons I fall asleep, and sew them on in a dream. O men, with sisters dear ! O men with mothers and wives ! it is not linen you're wearing out, but human creatures
Էջ 59 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...