Blackwood's Magazine, Հատոր 22William Blackwood, 1827 |
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... thought himself a para- gon of all gentlemanly perfections . Having but a very imperfect acquaint- ance with the oral language of the West , he could not possibly have un- derstood one word in twenty , and nothing is more natural than ...
... thought himself a para- gon of all gentlemanly perfections . Having but a very imperfect acquaint- ance with the oral language of the West , he could not possibly have un- derstood one word in twenty , and nothing is more natural than ...
Էջ 116
... thought , only because the starnies were mair than usual beautifully bricht , and that I might aiblins mak a bit poem or sang in the solitude , and I found my ain brither's wee dochter , o ' twelve years auld , lyin ' delirious o ' a ...
... thought , only because the starnies were mair than usual beautifully bricht , and that I might aiblins mak a bit poem or sang in the solitude , and I found my ain brither's wee dochter , o ' twelve years auld , lyin ' delirious o ' a ...
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... thoughts , James , of relinquishing animal food , and confining myself , like Sir Richard Phillips , to vegetable matter ... thought the truth - and although sometimes manifestly swayed in his judg- ment on such matters , like almost all ...
... thoughts , James , of relinquishing animal food , and confining myself , like Sir Richard Phillips , to vegetable matter ... thought the truth - and although sometimes manifestly swayed in his judg- ment on such matters , like almost all ...
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... thought flashed across my mind , LAug that to die were to punish the unworthy authors of my sorrow - were to strike imperishable remorse to the hearts of Maria and of John ; -and I took the pistols with me , muttering , as I con- cealed ...
... thought flashed across my mind , LAug that to die were to punish the unworthy authors of my sorrow - were to strike imperishable remorse to the hearts of Maria and of John ; -and I took the pistols with me , muttering , as I con- cealed ...
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... thought it best to put that out of danger at once . So I drove to the Strand , and deposited your eighty thousand pounds in a place of securi- ty before I proceeded here to tell you that it was safe . " If I had been humbled and ashamed ...
... thought it best to put that out of danger at once . So I drove to the Strand , and deposited your eighty thousand pounds in a place of securi- ty before I proceeded here to tell you that it was safe . " If I had been humbled and ashamed ...
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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...