Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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... rest , and this was evidently his first expedi- tion . He carried neither carbine nor sword , and the only weapon he had was a Catalonian knife stuck in his belt . Everything he saw in my trunk caused him surprise and wonder . He asked ...
... rest , and this was evidently his first expedi- tion . He carried neither carbine nor sword , and the only weapon he had was a Catalonian knife stuck in his belt . Everything he saw in my trunk caused him surprise and wonder . He asked ...
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... rest on an old tombstone , By grass and wild - flowers all overgrown , But through wild - flowers and grass I was able to scan The legend it bore , which thus began : " In memory of a darling wife , The joy and solace of my life , This ...
... rest on an old tombstone , By grass and wild - flowers all overgrown , But through wild - flowers and grass I was able to scan The legend it bore , which thus began : " In memory of a darling wife , The joy and solace of my life , This ...
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... rest of their time for gardening and other amusements , and yet the majority of them are killed off under 30 years of age , after two or three years of suffering . Such details are fearfully sickening . The number of needle - grinders ...
... rest of their time for gardening and other amusements , and yet the majority of them are killed off under 30 years of age , after two or three years of suffering . Such details are fearfully sickening . The number of needle - grinders ...
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... rest . The announcements , introductions , coffee - sipping , and other non - musical preludes , passed over as usual . At length that dead silence occurred which invariably takes place when something is expected to be done . Mrs ...
... rest . The announcements , introductions , coffee - sipping , and other non - musical preludes , passed over as usual . At length that dead silence occurred which invariably takes place when something is expected to be done . Mrs ...
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... rest and refreshment free of all charge . The first night , he observes , I passed without sleep ; for , as I had not slept in a bed for a year and a half , I was quite uncomfortable in one . ' Quitting this haven of rest , along with a ...
... rest and refreshment free of all charge . The first night , he observes , I passed without sleep ; for , as I had not slept in a bed for a year and a half , I was quite uncomfortable in one . ' Quitting this haven of rest , along with 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!