Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, Volumen19 |
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... father ; another , who had stabbed a friend in a wine - shop ; a Corsican , who had assassin- ated a girl through jealousy ; three noted bad charac- ters , convicted of robberies with violence ; a vile old ruffian , who boasted that on ...
... father ; another , who had stabbed a friend in a wine - shop ; a Corsican , who had assassin- ated a girl through jealousy ; three noted bad charac- ters , convicted of robberies with violence ; a vile old ruffian , who boasted that on ...
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... Father worked in the Hesperus , and there he died , too , smothered by a gallery caving in . I were thirty yard off ; I heard him groan and cry , and I couldn't help him . ' · " ' Good heavens ! ' I exclaimed , can such things be ...
... Father worked in the Hesperus , and there he died , too , smothered by a gallery caving in . I were thirty yard off ; I heard him groan and cry , and I couldn't help him . ' · " ' Good heavens ! ' I exclaimed , can such things be ...
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... father's death , and they do say he once owned to it when he was tipsy . So , sir , Harry would have warned you , but you wouldn't listen ; and when I passed in the cart , and saw Black James waiting for somebody , and just afterwards ...
... father's death , and they do say he once owned to it when he was tipsy . So , sir , Harry would have warned you , but you wouldn't listen ; and when I passed in the cart , and saw Black James waiting for somebody , and just afterwards ...
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... father's jacket , watching the work go on , and I've brought him his dinner too ; so I knew the mine well . And they say Black James used to go often to Sunk River , and sit there , dreaming and longing to be rich , so I thought we'd ...
... father's jacket , watching the work go on , and I've brought him his dinner too ; so I knew the mine well . And they say Black James used to go often to Sunk River , and sit there , dreaming and longing to be rich , so I thought we'd ...
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... father nursing the baby ; the mother occu- tak upon me to aver that cricket was a sort o ' pied in some household duties , either darning stockings ' trap , bat , and ball , ' he wadna be by ordiner flattered , and clothes that had been ...
... father nursing the baby ; the mother occu- tak upon me to aver that cricket was a sort o ' pied in some household duties , either darning stockings ' trap , bat , and ball , ' he wadna be by ordiner flattered , and clothes that had been ...
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Página 196 - Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 92 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And
Página 92 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance. And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 93 - by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 94 - To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe...
Página 93 - For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart — how shall I say? — too soon made glad. Too easily impressed: she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir...
Página 93 - And then how I shall lie through centuries, And hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all day long...
Página 92 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Página 13 - All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live...
Página 92 - The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at his sermon on the mount, Saint Praxed in a glory...