Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Հատորներ 1-2W. Orr, 1844 |
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... present , and intend to ask the young lady to the exhibition to - morrow , which , as John would say , looks violently symptomatic . " We shall see . HYDROCYANIC ACID - A REMEDY FOR BLINDNESS . In the summer of last year , while ...
... present , and intend to ask the young lady to the exhibition to - morrow , which , as John would say , looks violently symptomatic . " We shall see . HYDROCYANIC ACID - A REMEDY FOR BLINDNESS . In the summer of last year , while ...
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... present or dreaded evils . Strange to say , Mr Edward Percival , by nature the most frank , manly , straightforward person in the world , seems lately to have taken a manoeuvring turn . After showing very unmistakable signs of an ...
... present or dreaded evils . Strange to say , Mr Edward Percival , by nature the most frank , manly , straightforward person in the world , seems lately to have taken a manoeuvring turn . After showing very unmistakable signs of an ...
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... present sheet , who expend several hun- dreds of pounds per annum on wood - engravings for their works , have all along experienced the greatest difficulty in procuring the species of cuts which they require . A want of a thorough ...
... present sheet , who expend several hun- dreds of pounds per annum on wood - engravings for their works , have all along experienced the greatest difficulty in procuring the species of cuts which they require . A want of a thorough ...
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... present to be one - third of a just as the range of bridges which carry a railway across million , and therefore we have a sufficient store of a valley are termed a viaduct . The ancient principle water in this fountain reservoir to ...
... present to be one - third of a just as the range of bridges which carry a railway across million , and therefore we have a sufficient store of a valley are termed a viaduct . The ancient principle water in this fountain reservoir to ...
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... present ; and , what we are more inte- rested in , the literary matter is generally good - for which the names of Mr Procter , Mrs Hall , Mr Leitch Ritchie , and Miss Toulmin , are , indeed , a pretty fair guarantee . 66 There is a ...
... present ; and , what we are more inte- rested in , the literary matter is generally good - for which the names of Mr Procter , Mrs Hall , Mr Leitch Ritchie , and Miss Toulmin , are , indeed , a pretty fair guarantee . 66 There is a ...
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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...