Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 51W. Blackwood, 1842 |
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... turned out to be the sober truth ; and our modesty , our sobriety of mind , it was which turned out a windy tympany . Certainly , said we , if this be so , and that the word Africa is really standing in Herodotus , then it must be like ...
... turned out to be the sober truth ; and our modesty , our sobriety of mind , it was which turned out a windy tympany . Certainly , said we , if this be so , and that the word Africa is really standing in Herodotus , then it must be like ...
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... turned - coats sufficient for the clothing of both Houses of Parlia- ment ; here , as to a workhouse , all that is worthless and worn - out finds its way ; here are represented , in their several discarded skins or sloughs , the " out ...
... turned - coats sufficient for the clothing of both Houses of Parlia- ment ; here , as to a workhouse , all that is worthless and worn - out finds its way ; here are represented , in their several discarded skins or sloughs , the " out ...
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... turned the vestment inside out over and over again , look- ing for the right side , but in vain ; the garment having been turned so often that both sides are wrong Now he holds it expanded upon his arms between him and the light , which ...
... turned the vestment inside out over and over again , look- ing for the right side , but in vain ; the garment having been turned so often that both sides are wrong Now he holds it expanded upon his arms between him and the light , which ...
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... turned against each other , which is only in another way turning each man against himself , and lowering the con- dition of our common country ! Arabs could not have excited more astonishment ; the swarthy counte- nances of the men ...
... turned against each other , which is only in another way turning each man against himself , and lowering the con- dition of our common country ! Arabs could not have excited more astonishment ; the swarthy counte- nances of the men ...
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... turning a deaf ear to supplications for mercy , and accom- panying every blow with a heavy curse . He was within a score of yards of five or six Christino soldiers , when they suddenly turned , and levelling their muskets , made a ...
... turning a deaf ear to supplications for mercy , and accom- panying every blow with a heavy curse . He was within a score of yards of five or six Christino soldiers , when they suddenly turned , and levelling their muskets , made a ...
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Page 451 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea ' Can wash the balm from an anointed king : The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 129 - There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Page 440 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 128 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 129 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress...
Page 129 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 445 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 220 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 462 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 28 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.