Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Հատորներ 1-2W. Orr, 1844 |
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... look and manner at Mrs Larkins's affords us a permanent income of laughter , which is something in these dull times ; and I have learned , by means of his visit , that there is one really independent woman in the world . As levying day ...
... look and manner at Mrs Larkins's affords us a permanent income of laughter , which is something in these dull times ; and I have learned , by means of his visit , that there is one really independent woman in the world . As levying day ...
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... looks , as it were , into the very soul of those around him , and reads their thoughts without the assistance of their words ... look of sympathy , when he turned away with loathing from the cold in- quiry and the offered gift . And when ...
... looks , as it were , into the very soul of those around him , and reads their thoughts without the assistance of their words ... look of sympathy , when he turned away with loathing from the cold in- quiry and the offered gift . And when ...
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... look like some out - of - the - way fancy , all denoting the pride and ambition of this strange old woman with her popish name . No one , in reality , had less of these unpopular qualities than poor old Aggy Durrant . She was the ...
... look like some out - of - the - way fancy , all denoting the pride and ambition of this strange old woman with her popish name . No one , in reality , had less of these unpopular qualities than poor old Aggy Durrant . She was the ...
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... look of perfect delight with which the poor mother regarded her baby in its new dress and cap , was something quite worth creating ; I do believe she could not have felt more grateful if I had sent her a barrel of flour . ' ' Well , I ...
... look of perfect delight with which the poor mother regarded her baby in its new dress and cap , was something quite worth creating ; I do believe she could not have felt more grateful if I had sent her a barrel of flour . ' ' Well , I ...
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... look for them . Having now , as one may say , taken a bird's - eye view of the subject , we may come a little closer to its main features ; and , in short , if you , the reader , have no particular objections , take a look at the town ...
... look for them . Having now , as one may say , taken a bird's - eye view of the subject , we may come a little closer to its main features ; and , in short , if you , the reader , have no particular objections , take a look at the town ...
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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...