Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing TractsWilliam and Robert Chambers |
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... heart - the Exchange - whence the pulsation of every steam - engine , at least morally , proceeds , is the grand district of warehouses and counting - rooms . There the fabrics spun , woven , printed , and dyed at the mills , are stored ...
... heart - the Exchange - whence the pulsation of every steam - engine , at least morally , proceeds , is the grand district of warehouses and counting - rooms . There the fabrics spun , woven , printed , and dyed at the mills , are stored ...
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... heart of Africa to the borders of Nubia ; Swan River would be on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt ; King George's Sound about Candia ; and the Great Australian Bight would correspond with the shore of Africa stretching from the Levant ...
... heart of Africa to the borders of Nubia ; Swan River would be on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt ; King George's Sound about Candia ; and the Great Australian Bight would correspond with the shore of Africa stretching from the Levant ...
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... heart of this great country , we should meet with scenery stranger and more repulsive than any we have yet attempted to describe , and should have the African illustration with which we commenced forcibly recalled to us . We should , in ...
... heart of this great country , we should meet with scenery stranger and more repulsive than any we have yet attempted to describe , and should have the African illustration with which we commenced forcibly recalled to us . We should , in ...
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... heart . And there are not a few persons of the same kind - persons who hear sermons , and read books of instruc- tion , in the unthinking belief that having so done , they have accomplished their duty . Jessie's and her mother's reading ...
... heart . And there are not a few persons of the same kind - persons who hear sermons , and read books of instruc- tion , in the unthinking belief that having so done , they have accomplished their duty . Jessie's and her mother's reading ...
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... heart , which beat tumultuously with joy and hope . Then he watched her figure as it vanished among the stacks . ' O Jessie - my ain Jessie ! May the Lord bless her dear heart ! sae bonny and sae gude , ' he whispered softly and ...
... heart , which beat tumultuously with joy and hope . Then he watched her figure as it vanished among the stacks . ' O Jessie - my ain Jessie ! May the Lord bless her dear heart ! sae bonny and sae gude , ' he whispered softly and ...
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Էջ 31 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 30 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Էջ 5 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Էջ 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 1 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Էջ 28 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 24 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Էջ 9 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Էջ 15 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Էջ 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...