Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam 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 yiolently symptomatic . We shall see . HYDROCYANIC ACID - A REMEDY FOR BLINDNESS . In the summer of last year , while residing ...
... present , and intend to ask the young lady to the exhibition to - morrow , which , as John would say , looks yiolently symptomatic . We shall see . HYDROCYANIC ACID - A REMEDY FOR BLINDNESS . In the summer of last year , while residing ...
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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 . 46 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 . 46 There is a ...
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Էջ 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Էջ 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Էջ 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Էջ 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
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 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Էջ 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Էջ 204 - 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 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Էջ 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!