The North British Review, Volúmenes40-41Leonard Scott & Company, 1864 |
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... believe the observation of the water - ousel walking at the bottom of the water is still questioned . The manner in which the woodcock carries its young is no longer disputed : - " A water - ousel ( Hydrobata cinclus ) in the burn has ...
... believe the observation of the water - ousel walking at the bottom of the water is still questioned . The manner in which the woodcock carries its young is no longer disputed : - " A water - ousel ( Hydrobata cinclus ) in the burn has ...
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... reader's eyes , and making long dive into the snow and stones , but drew him understand and thoroughly to believe a piece of complex strategy practised against | giving the work 1864 . 73 The Country Life of England .
... reader's eyes , and making long dive into the snow and stones , but drew him understand and thoroughly to believe a piece of complex strategy practised against | giving the work 1864 . 73 The Country Life of England .
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... believe peo- ple who say that all scenes soon become indif- ferent , through being constantly seen . An ugly street may cease to be a vexation , when you get accustomed to it ; but a pleasant prospect becomes even more pleasant , when ...
... believe peo- ple who say that all scenes soon become indif- ferent , through being constantly seen . An ugly street may cease to be a vexation , when you get accustomed to it ; but a pleasant prospect becomes even more pleasant , when ...
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... believe . and without altogether renouncing the old But our friend's birth and connections give manly prize - fight , and the thoroughly English him the entrée to some of the best sporting race - course , it finds room , and turns the ...
... believe . and without altogether renouncing the old But our friend's birth and connections give manly prize - fight , and the thoroughly English him the entrée to some of the best sporting race - course , it finds room , and turns the ...
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... believe , equally different from the landed . proprietor of any other country in the world , in habits and occupation . Look what he is and what he has to do . Our average coun- try gentleman has been educated at a public school and a ...
... believe , equally different from the landed . proprietor of any other country in the world , in habits and occupation . Look what he is and what he has to do . Our average coun- try gentleman has been educated at a public school and a ...
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Página 48 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful : for he had great possessions.
Página 154 - Women,' long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.
Página 18 - I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.
Página 140 - Ah me! how quick the days are flitting! I mind me of a time that's gone, When here I'd sit, as now I'm sitting. In this same place — but not alone. A fair young form was nestled near me. A dear, dear face looked fondly up, And sweetly spoke and smiled to cheer me — There's no one now to share my cup.
Página 13 - The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Página 14 - Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion...
Página 19 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 121 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 129 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Página 108 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere.