Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 66W. Blackwood, 1849 - England |
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... head ? TALBOYS . A hat . At least it was so an hour ago . It never will be a hat again . NORTH . TALBOYS . A patent hat - a waterproof hat - it was swimming , when I purchased it yesterday , in a pail - warranted against Lammas floods ...
... head ? TALBOYS . A hat . At least it was so an hour ago . It never will be a hat again . NORTH . TALBOYS . A patent hat - a waterproof hat - it was swimming , when I purchased it yesterday , in a pail - warranted against Lammas floods ...
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... head obtruded , and a voice cried , " Who are you ? -what do you want ? " " I'm the postboy at the Red Lion ; I want to see the servant with the brown carriage ; I have found this purse ! " " Oh , that's all - wait a bit . " The head ...
... head obtruded , and a voice cried , " Who are you ? -what do you want ? " " I'm the postboy at the Red Lion ; I want to see the servant with the brown carriage ; I have found this purse ! " " Oh , that's all - wait a bit . " The head ...
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... head , relaxing , drooped on his breast , his eyes closed . Even Lord Castleton was so struck ( though unable to guess the true and terrible cause of his dejection ) that he forgot his desire to hasten from the spot , and cried with all ...
... head , relaxing , drooped on his breast , his eyes closed . Even Lord Castleton was so struck ( though unable to guess the true and terrible cause of his dejection ) that he forgot his desire to hasten from the spot , and cried with all ...
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... head of game , which Mr Brooke dis- posed of in six months , might have produced a greater weight of bullocks or Leicester wedders , ( though this is extremely unlikely , for the simple reason that grain , grass , and green crops form ...
... head of game , which Mr Brooke dis- posed of in six months , might have produced a greater weight of bullocks or Leicester wedders , ( though this is extremely unlikely , for the simple reason that grain , grass , and green crops form ...
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... head and centre of the Pays Latin or scholastic quarter of Paris , and which , for six centuries , has borne the name of the Rue de la Harpe , within a few doors of the bridge of St Michel , and in a room upon the fifth floor , two ...
... head and centre of the Pays Latin or scholastic quarter of Paris , and which , for six centuries , has borne the name of the Rue de la Harpe , within a few doors of the bridge of St Michel , and in a room upon the fifth floor , two ...
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Page 627 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it: And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 649 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 620 - Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself ? hath it slept since ? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 633 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 642 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 635 - Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 624 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 250 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 343 - And anon there breaks a sigh, And anon there drops a tear, From a sorrow-clouded eye, And a heart sorrow-laden; A long, long sigh For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden And the gleam of her golden hair. Come away, away, children; Come, children, come down!
Page 627 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.