Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, 8. köide |
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... half an hour previous , for he had fallen before the last shot that struck the deer was fired . A little blood that had oozed from the right side was the only injury his examination could discover ; and believing he had only fainted ...
... half an hour previous , for he had fallen before the last shot that struck the deer was fired . A little blood that had oozed from the right side was the only injury his examination could discover ; and believing he had only fainted ...
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... half - hour or more , and appeared much more gratified by our admiration and understanding of his skill than by the pecuniary recompense of it . What links they are , too , of the present with the past ! Thoughts of troubadours and ...
... half - hour or more , and appeared much more gratified by our admiration and understanding of his skill than by the pecuniary recompense of it . What links they are , too , of the present with the past ! Thoughts of troubadours and ...
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... half he propounds with such solemn gravity . Sundry of his prescriptions savour strongly of the mendicant friar's celebrated recipe for the making of flint - soup . In his concoction of simples , he slily insinuates his ' powdered beet ...
... half he propounds with such solemn gravity . Sundry of his prescriptions savour strongly of the mendicant friar's celebrated recipe for the making of flint - soup . In his concoction of simples , he slily insinuates his ' powdered beet ...
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... half persuade you that the destinies of the whole civilised world hung on the noble but neglected art of mantua - making . I respect that woman ! Much has been said concerning justice from the employer to the employed ; and as much ...
... half persuade you that the destinies of the whole civilised world hung on the noble but neglected art of mantua - making . I respect that woman ! Much has been said concerning justice from the employer to the employed ; and as much ...
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... half - putrid cat , the skeleton of a dog or two , scores of rats killed during the night , and thrown out by ancient duennas ; some rinds of water- melons , and half - starved poultry earning a filthy liveli- The principal facts of ...
... half - putrid cat , the skeleton of a dog or two , scores of rats killed during the night , and thrown out by ancient duennas ; some rinds of water- melons , and half - starved poultry earning a filthy liveli- The principal facts of ...
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Page 141 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 332 - In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Page 319 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen ; But far above, in spangled sheen, Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced, Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced...
Page 330 - Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness...
Page 71 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 330 - There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged...
Page 331 - Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the woodside; reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds; as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung.
Page 330 - The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
Page 73 - Yet Burlington's fair palace still remains ; Beauty within, without proportion, reigns. Beneath his eye declining art revives, The wall with animated picture lives ; There Handel strikes the strings, the melting strain Transports the soul, and thrills through every vein ; There oft I enter, (but with cleaner shoes,) For Burlington's belov'd by every Muse.
Page 218 - The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.