Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122William Blackwood, 1877 - England |
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... asked Tom . " Matter , sir ? Drowning's the matter - that's all . " He then ex- plained that the boatman had snapped one of his oars , and in jumping up to try to rescue the half which fell into the water , had sent " his great ...
... asked Tom . " Matter , sir ? Drowning's the matter - that's all . " He then ex- plained that the boatman had snapped one of his oars , and in jumping up to try to rescue the half which fell into the water , had sent " his great ...
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... asking him if he had given up his visits to Scotland as a sportsman . " No , " replied Cosmo , " not in theory ... asked me there , although I con- stantly go to his own shooting . I fancy his father is peculiar , -pro- bably mad ...
... asking him if he had given up his visits to Scotland as a sportsman . " No , " replied Cosmo , " not in theory ... asked me there , although I con- stantly go to his own shooting . I fancy his father is peculiar , -pro- bably mad ...
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... asking nor expecting quarter . 66 Shortly after , without further fighting , King John sued for peace , and no hostile movement has since taken place in Abyssinia . " All of our prisoners who had not been put to death ( as many were ...
... asking nor expecting quarter . 66 Shortly after , without further fighting , King John sued for peace , and no hostile movement has since taken place in Abyssinia . " All of our prisoners who had not been put to death ( as many were ...
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... asked if he would undertake , if liberated , to convey a letter from the " king of kings " to his sister , Queen Victoria , without letting the Khedive know anything about it - obstinately in- sisting on his being an " Ingleeze ...
... asked if he would undertake , if liberated , to convey a letter from the " king of kings " to his sister , Queen Victoria , without letting the Khedive know anything about it - obstinately in- sisting on his being an " Ingleeze ...
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... asked me to put it on last night . " " Asked you ! That is rather good . If you were any other girl in the world - but I don't believe you do care much what you look like . Amber crape ! I daresay it looked very beautiful , and that you ...
... asked me to put it on last night . " " Asked you ! That is rather good . If you were any other girl in the world - but I don't believe you do care much what you look like . Amber crape ! I daresay it looked very beautiful , and that you ...
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Page 137 - Lotos and lilies : and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro
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Page 721 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 416 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 737 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Page 413 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 414 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Page 416 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 737 - Midas turned all things to gold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye; and by a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart.
Page 737 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night...