Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2W. Orr, 1844 |
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... interest which the metropolis presents engaged so large a share of my attention as one which now , after considerable deliberation , I propose explaining to the reader of these pages , on the score of public duty . I allude to a series ...
... interest which the metropolis presents engaged so large a share of my attention as one which now , after considerable deliberation , I propose explaining to the reader of these pages , on the score of public duty . I allude to a series ...
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... interest which I was desirous not to pass unvisited . We were now on our way southward , having resolved to make a detour from the valley of the Loire to that of the Cher , and to return again at a point where fresh objects of ...
... interest which I was desirous not to pass unvisited . We were now on our way southward , having resolved to make a detour from the valley of the Loire to that of the Cher , and to return again at a point where fresh objects of ...
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... interest . prosperity depends upon a plentiful supply of pure water , it will appear in its true light as a great national achievement . In such a light was the completion of the Croton Aqueduct regarded by the citizens of New York ...
... interest . prosperity depends upon a plentiful supply of pure water , it will appear in its true light as a great national achievement . In such a light was the completion of the Croton Aqueduct regarded by the citizens of New York ...
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... interest- liever in their elevated character , demeanour , and in- tellect - there was yet on all occasions something new , fresh , and to a European , however sceptical concerning their good qualities , something of secret and ...
... interest- liever in their elevated character , demeanour , and in- tellect - there was yet on all occasions something new , fresh , and to a European , however sceptical concerning their good qualities , something of secret and ...
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... interest that could be desired , and next day tell twenty people how sensibly you are managing the matter , and that he has a great mind to put his own George and Samuel through exactly the same course when they are ready for it . But ...
... interest that could be desired , and next day tell twenty people how sensibly you are managing the matter , and that he has a great mind to put his own George and Samuel through exactly the same course when they are ready for it . But ...
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Page 134 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 212 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 47 - Work — work — work! My labor never flags; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags, That shattered roof — and this naked floor • A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there!
Page 172 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 194 - And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 194 - And with them the Being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 266 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Page 47 - Work ! work ! work ! till the brain begins to swim; work ! work ! work ! till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam, and gusset, and band ; band, and gusset, and seam ; till over the buttons I fall asleep, and sew them on in a dream. O men, with sisters dear ! O men with mothers and wives ! it is not linen you're wearing out, but human creatures
Page 59 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...