Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 130 |
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... evidently roused out must have narrowed , when we of bed , sitting on it
opposite , calling turned , and took it with a dash , for coffee , and asking us the
news . the light trap jerking across , down “ Walker ' s not trekked yet ? one bank
and up ...
... evidently roused out must have narrowed , when we of bed , sitting on it
opposite , calling turned , and took it with a dash , for coffee , and asking us the
news . the light trap jerking across , down “ Walker ' s not trekked yet ? one bank
and up ...
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... and it was unspeakable relief when he turned out to be only a native, and one
of Murray's servants. However, we were fated to be in luck, and the little town
came into sight, Stander's Kop on its left, a hill to be well known throughout the
siege ...
... and it was unspeakable relief when he turned out to be only a native, and one
of Murray's servants. However, we were fated to be in luck, and the little town
came into sight, Stander's Kop on its left, a hill to be well known throughout the
siege ...
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One rather credulous youth declared he heard 'revolvers going off in town, but
they turned out to have been crackers let off by boys in honour of the day—it was
Christmas Eve—and magnified by a slightly heated imagination into firearms.
One rather credulous youth declared he heard 'revolvers going off in town, but
they turned out to have been crackers let off by boys in honour of the day—it was
Christmas Eve—and magnified by a slightly heated imagination into firearms.
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The Dutchman turned out to be a loyal native who affected European clothes,
and was the court interpreter, and who came on under his white flag, nothing
doubting, when he was greeted with a volley, and cleared out faster than he
came.
The Dutchman turned out to be a loyal native who affected European clothes,
and was the court interpreter, and who came on under his white flag, nothing
doubting, when he was greeted with a volley, and cleared out faster than he
came.
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... till three in the the men at times for unduly exposearly morning , when all
turned out ing themselves to fire ; in three in readiness for our enemies — and
months one gets wonderfully callous that was kept up for eighty - eight to a bullet
. days .
... till three in the the men at times for unduly exposearly morning , when all
turned out ing themselves to fire ; in three in readiness for our enemies — and
months one gets wonderfully callous that was kept up for eighty - eight to a bullet
. days .
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Էջ 569 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Էջ 257 - Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Էջ 359 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Էջ 213 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Էջ 147 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Էջ 359 - They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks ; neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path : and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Էջ 32 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 394 - NEAVES. A Glance at some of the Principles of Comparative Philology. As illustrated in the Latin and Anglican Forms of Speech. By the Hon. Lord NEAVES. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Songs and Verses, Social and Scientific. By an Old Contributor to 'Maga.
Էջ 232 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of -uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Էջ 600 - ... Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.