Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... seen passing slowly along , with erect forms and stately carriage , bearing on their heads rush baskets filled with water or milk , or hocing the maize that they in after days should bruise and bake . Verily , these ladies did not eat ...
... seen passing slowly along , with erect forms and stately carriage , bearing on their heads rush baskets filled with water or milk , or hocing the maize that they in after days should bruise and bake . Verily , these ladies did not eat ...
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... seen the Smithfield Cattle Show ? If not , you must either be a very busy man , or you have not the true English taste for Christmas fare . You have missed a great opportunity ; for a right royal exhibition it was this year , and must ...
... seen the Smithfield Cattle Show ? If not , you must either be a very busy man , or you have not the true English taste for Christmas fare . You have missed a great opportunity ; for a right royal exhibition it was this year , and must ...
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... seen smoking at any hour of the day , without the slightest make - believe of secresy ; where dealers in cast - off garments , and traders in all manner of out - of - the - way articles , abound - within the " liberties " adjoining the ...
... seen smoking at any hour of the day , without the slightest make - believe of secresy ; where dealers in cast - off garments , and traders in all manner of out - of - the - way articles , abound - within the " liberties " adjoining the ...
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... seen many who entered the building with similar notions to their own , removed in the meantime out of this more extensive lodging- house - the world - altogether . One young man has told me this with an ominous shake of the head , which ...
... seen many who entered the building with similar notions to their own , removed in the meantime out of this more extensive lodging- house - the world - altogether . One young man has told me this with an ominous shake of the head , which ...
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... seen the Upper Bohemians at home ; and I feel a strong interest in them . I have seen stricter honour brought into play among them than often characterises the dealings of the snobs of the commercial und fashionable worlds . I have not ...
... seen the Upper Bohemians at home ; and I feel a strong interest in them . I have seen stricter honour brought into play among them than often characterises the dealings of the snobs of the commercial und fashionable worlds . I have not ...
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Page 20 - We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : It is the same ! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free : Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Page 337 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 295 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech : Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 99 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start...
Page 21 - Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God...
Page 19 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 17 - He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Page 461 - Committee seem to have entertained some alarm as to the high rate of speed which had been spoken of, and proceeded to examine the witness further on the subject. They supposed the case of the engine being upset when going at nine miles an hour, and asked what, in such a case, would become of the cargo astern. To which the witness replied, that it would not be upset. One of the members of the Committee pressed the witness a little further.
Page 403 - So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's granary is full, And the harvest's done. 1 see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.