Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, Volumen19 |
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... seemed a necessity of their being ; but when steam became the motive - power , it gradually tended to make the hours of labour more regular and reliable ; and the erection of steam - mills in the town drew some of the men from the water ...
... seemed a necessity of their being ; but when steam became the motive - power , it gradually tended to make the hours of labour more regular and reliable ; and the erection of steam - mills in the town drew some of the men from the water ...
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... seemed to surprise , and then to delight him . When I first went to reside with them , he rarely went out with his wife , except when we were going to parties , but after a time he regularly accompanied us in our walks , and the ...
... seemed to surprise , and then to delight him . When I first went to reside with them , he rarely went out with his wife , except when we were going to parties , but after a time he regularly accompanied us in our walks , and the ...
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... seemed to comprehend at a glance what had occurred . He came to the bed- side and looked steadily at the woman . The poor creature put her hand towards him and murmured in a low tone : " I am dying , my Philippe . " After a moment's ...
... seemed to comprehend at a glance what had occurred . He came to the bed- side and looked steadily at the woman . The poor creature put her hand towards him and murmured in a low tone : " I am dying , my Philippe . " After a moment's ...
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... seemed as if the speed was accelerated as we approached the busiest metropolis of Europe . At first , we crunched slowly up the old familiar Alpine road , now white with snow , and hedged with icicles , the hoar - frost dusting our ...
... seemed as if the speed was accelerated as we approached the busiest metropolis of Europe . At first , we crunched slowly up the old familiar Alpine road , now white with snow , and hedged with icicles , the hoar - frost dusting our ...
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... seemed to expect his turn of luck ' some day , when a discovery of ore should make him a man of substance . It was characteristic , too , that he never appeared to dream of any other means of amassing wealth than by sub- terranean ...
... seemed to expect his turn of luck ' some day , when a discovery of ore should make him a man of substance . It was characteristic , too , that he never appeared to dream of any other means of amassing wealth than by sub- terranean ...
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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...