Blackwood's Magazine, Հատոր 22William Blackwood, 1827 |
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... morning of the 19th saw several working parties sally forth , bill - hook in hand , to fell them . The expe- dition was not undertaken in vain . In less than a couple of hours the whole of the south side of the island was rendered as ...
... morning of the 19th saw several working parties sally forth , bill - hook in hand , to fell them . The expe- dition was not undertaken in vain . In less than a couple of hours the whole of the south side of the island was rendered as ...
Էջ 75
... morning of the 22d , the advance of the army , un- der the command of Colonel Thorn- ton , stepped into the boats . It con- sisted in all of about fifteen hundred infantry , two pieces of light cannon , and a troop of rockets , and it ...
... morning of the 22d , the advance of the army , un- der the command of Colonel Thorn- ton , stepped into the boats . It con- sisted in all of about fifteen hundred infantry , two pieces of light cannon , and a troop of rockets , and it ...
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... morning of the 23d . Though suffering still in no slight degree from the rain of yesterday and cold of last night , the lighting of fires was strictly prohibited . Concealment , it was understood , was as yet the great object in view ...
... morning of the 23d . Though suffering still in no slight degree from the rain of yesterday and cold of last night , the lighting of fires was strictly prohibited . Concealment , it was understood , was as yet the great object in view ...
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... morning , -the American force in our front having fallen back , and we ha- ving been left for a full half hour to breathe , when suddenly the head of a small column showed itself in full ad- vance towards us . We were at this time amply ...
... morning , -the American force in our front having fallen back , and we ha- ving been left for a full half hour to breathe , when suddenly the head of a small column showed itself in full ad- vance towards us . We were at this time amply ...
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... morning , till the last twilight of evening had departed . As soon as it was well dark , the corps to which Charlton and myself were attached , received orders to file off to the right . We obeyed , and passing along the front of the ...
... morning , till the last twilight of evening had departed . As soon as it was well dark , the corps to which Charlton and myself were attached , received orders to file off to the right . We obeyed , and passing along the front of the ...
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Էջ 36 - Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy:— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from...
Էջ 36 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Էջ 532 - On him, who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side.
Էջ 24 - Away, away, o'er the foaming main !" — This was the free and the joyous strain — " There are clearer skies than ours, afar, We will shape our course by a brighter star ; There are plains whose verdure no foot hath press'd, And whose wealth is all for the first brave guest." " But alas ! that we should go...
Էջ 199 - Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse which hath carried me many a mile, and I thank God with much ease...
Էջ 545 - He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
Էջ 495 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the...
Էջ 199 - As soon as he was perfectly recovered from this sickness, he took a journey from Oxford to Exeter, to satisfy and see his good Mother, being accompanied with a countryman and companion of his own College, and both on foot ; which was then either more in fashion, or want of money, or their humility made it so: but on foot they went, and took Salisbury in their way, purposely to see the good Bishop, who made Mr. Hooker and his companion dine with him at his own table : which Mr. Hooker boasted of with...
Էջ 497 - Watchful and agile, uttering voices wild And harsh, yet in accordance with the waves Upon the beach, the winds in caverns moaning, Or winds and waves abroad upon the water. Some sought their food among the finny shoals, Swift darting from the clouds, emerging soon With slender captives glittering in their beaks ; These in recesses of steep crags constructed Their eyries inaccessible, and trained Their hardy broods to forage in all weathers...
Էջ 579 - Colonel to have meant rightly on this subject, as on most others ; but, as there is a good deal to be said on the other side, and...