Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Volume 4, Issue 31 - Volume 6, Issue 59William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1845 - Art |
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... brought it to a successful issue . The wish to conquer and possess Scotland , and so subdue the entire island of Great Britain , had been a favourite project of the Anglo - Norman sovereigns ever since they had fixed themselves in ...
... brought it to a successful issue . The wish to conquer and possess Scotland , and so subdue the entire island of Great Britain , had been a favourite project of the Anglo - Norman sovereigns ever since they had fixed themselves in ...
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... brought by minstrels , in nets of the same metal , with great pomp into the church , and the king took a solemn oath , by the God of heaven and by these swans , that he would march into Scotland , and never return till he had punished ...
... brought by minstrels , in nets of the same metal , with great pomp into the church , and the king took a solemn oath , by the God of heaven and by these swans , that he would march into Scotland , and never return till he had punished ...
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... brought to trial , when in his defence he acknowledged the having confined his daughter to prevent her intercourse with Lawson ; that he had frequently insisted on her marrying Robertson ; and that he had quarrelled with her on the ...
... brought to trial , when in his defence he acknowledged the having confined his daughter to prevent her intercourse with Lawson ; that he had frequently insisted on her marrying Robertson ; and that he had quarrelled with her on the ...
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... brought over his family and a small sum of money , employed it in purchasing lots of goods that had been condemned at the customhouse , which he again disposed of by retail . As these goods were such as , having a high duty , were ...
... brought over his family and a small sum of money , employed it in purchasing lots of goods that had been condemned at the customhouse , which he again disposed of by retail . As these goods were such as , having a high duty , were ...
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... brought an action for defamatory words , and Harris , irritated to the highest degree , stood upon his defence ; and in the meantime having procured a meeting of several persons who had suffered the same way in their dealings with Du ...
... brought an action for defamatory words , and Harris , irritated to the highest degree , stood upon his defence ; and in the meantime having procured a meeting of several persons who had suffered the same way in their dealings with Du ...
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Page 28 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. " Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 27 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 5 - gan stir, With a short uneasy motion — Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound : It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Page 8 - Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Page 4 - Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Page 8 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook...
Page 2 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and Is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there Is a silent Joy at their arrival.
Page 29 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe : For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 28 - He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 31 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.