Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, Volumen19 |
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... light , when my eye lit upon a dreadful writing on the wall , which I had not before observed : Caution.- Before a full bench of magistrates at Sandstone , on July 9th , Thomas Jones was fined L.2 and costs for smoking in a railway ...
... light , when my eye lit upon a dreadful writing on the wall , which I had not before observed : Caution.- Before a full bench of magistrates at Sandstone , on July 9th , Thomas Jones was fined L.2 and costs for smoking in a railway ...
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... light visible at any of the windows ; and when I had repeated my knock several times without receiving any answer , I became seriously uneasy , though I could not con- ceive that anything was the matter , because I had been told by ...
... light visible at any of the windows ; and when I had repeated my knock several times without receiving any answer , I became seriously uneasy , though I could not con- ceive that anything was the matter , because I had been told by ...
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... light whatever , so that I passed at once from daylight to total darkness . Everything I touched was wet , and the stench was so strong that I gasped for breath for some time after the door was shut . Tired with the hard day's work I ...
... light whatever , so that I passed at once from daylight to total darkness . Everything I touched was wet , and the stench was so strong that I gasped for breath for some time after the door was shut . Tired with the hard day's work I ...
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... light wands to which the name is now almost exclusively attributed , and these are The stem of the giant - fennel , the Ferula of Pliny , is descended from a period of considerable antiquity . the chief progenitor of this order , and he ...
... light wands to which the name is now almost exclusively attributed , and these are The stem of the giant - fennel , the Ferula of Pliny , is descended from a period of considerable antiquity . the chief progenitor of this order , and he ...
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... light several interesting physical truths explanatory nursery window , upon being required to go to bed a of this vegetable sleep . little earlier than usual , replied with much acuteness : mother , it is not yet time to go to bed ; the ...
... light several interesting physical truths explanatory nursery window , upon being required to go to bed a of this vegetable sleep . little earlier than usual , replied with much acuteness : mother , it is not yet time to go to bed ; 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...