Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, Volumen19 |
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... four or five hours , I sat opposite to him , at his request , endeavouring to prevent his pendulous stomach swaying from side to side with the motion of the carriage . As I was myself subject to the same motion , of course the efforts ...
... four or five hours , I sat opposite to him , at his request , endeavouring to prevent his pendulous stomach swaying from side to side with the motion of the carriage . As I was myself subject to the same motion , of course the efforts ...
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... four feet in length , some surmounted with a lotus - flower , and others by a carved projection standing out on one side , like a boar's tusk , as if it had been intended for the hand to rest upon . If we refer to sacred history , we ...
... four feet in length , some surmounted with a lotus - flower , and others by a carved projection standing out on one side , like a boar's tusk , as if it had been intended for the hand to rest upon . If we refer to sacred history , we ...
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... Four o'Clock opens about that time in the afternoon ; the flowers of the Evening Primrose and of the Thorn Apple open at sunset ; and those of the night - flower- ing Cereus , when it is dark . Aquatic flowers open and close with the ...
... Four o'Clock opens about that time in the afternoon ; the flowers of the Evening Primrose and of the Thorn Apple open at sunset ; and those of the night - flower- ing Cereus , when it is dark . Aquatic flowers open and close with the ...
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... four - poster - are not the beds generally delicious ? comforts with those of our own house . I believe the The fallacy lies in this - we compare foreign hotel contrast would be greater if we had to pay the bills and submit to the ...
... four - poster - are not the beds generally delicious ? comforts with those of our own house . I believe the The fallacy lies in this - we compare foreign hotel contrast would be greater if we had to pay the bills and submit to the ...
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... four weeks , and that when it was learned , they were very unwilling to recur to the cumbrous English system . Though , in common use , coins figure as of the greatest importance , yet , as the whole metric system is founded upon the ...
... four weeks , and that when it was learned , they were very unwilling to recur to the cumbrous English system . Though , in common use , coins figure as of the greatest importance , yet , as the whole metric system is founded upon the ...
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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...