Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 136William Blackwood, 1884 |
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Արդյունքներ 79–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... taken up by their work as the most hard- working official , mercantile clerk , or artisan . The lieutenant of the Guards , who has nothing to do but to show his fine uniform in the streets , exists only in the imagin- ation of people ...
... taken up by their work as the most hard- working official , mercantile clerk , or artisan . The lieutenant of the Guards , who has nothing to do but to show his fine uniform in the streets , exists only in the imagin- ation of people ...
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... taken off their hats , and most of the women dropping low courtesies ; while he or she to whom this spontaneous tribute of general and personal deference is offered , lean- ing slightly forward , returns with a peculiar , serious ...
... taken off their hats , and most of the women dropping low courtesies ; while he or she to whom this spontaneous tribute of general and personal deference is offered , lean- ing slightly forward , returns with a peculiar , serious ...
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... taken for natives . When they returned to their own country , they were wont to place themselves on a pinnacle , from which they If looked down on the unsophisti- cated , untravelled Germans , their countrymen , condescending , if they ...
... taken for natives . When they returned to their own country , they were wont to place themselves on a pinnacle , from which they If looked down on the unsophisti- cated , untravelled Germans , their countrymen , condescending , if they ...
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... taken with the train- ing of the horses for the Emperor's personal use . They are always safe , powerful , intelligent , good - natured animals , generally half - blood , shy- ing at nothing , and requiring scarcely any attention on the ...
... taken with the train- ing of the horses for the Emperor's personal use . They are always safe , powerful , intelligent , good - natured animals , generally half - blood , shy- ing at nothing , and requiring scarcely any attention on the ...
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... taken ill . " - " Nay , it can't be that , surely . " " It is indeed . It was on the morning before Christmas Day , the morning of the fancy ball - or rather the night before for it came out afterwards that she had been ill all the ...
... taken ill . " - " Nay , it can't be that , surely . " " It is indeed . It was on the morning before Christmas Day , the morning of the fancy ball - or rather the night before for it came out afterwards that she had been ill all the ...
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Էջ 406 - Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, •' -^ ' Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ?
Էջ 416 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Էջ 435 - And so through those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee ; come Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself, Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.
Էջ 423 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Էջ 565 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase — than the policy of the government?
Էջ 649 - It was answered, that all great and honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.
Էջ 745 - ... all the day long. 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not : and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth. 14 I became even as a man that heareth not : and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Էջ 403 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Էջ 764 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence : for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of GOD, though worlds Judged thee perverse.
Էջ 419 - Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight , Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.