Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 91W. Blackwood, 1862 |
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... thing half - choked with bricks , or just built a few feet into the wall , but a large - hearted , open - armed hearth , which thrust itself well out on the floor , and seemed to invite all to come there and be warm . The fire , too ...
... thing half - choked with bricks , or just built a few feet into the wall , but a large - hearted , open - armed hearth , which thrust itself well out on the floor , and seemed to invite all to come there and be warm . The fire , too ...
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... thing about there being nothing but peace and goodwill and Christian love at such a holy time . Old Guy glared from one to an- other , as though he intended to stand at bay , but he thought better of it , and taking the tankard in his ...
... thing about there being nothing but peace and goodwill and Christian love at such a holy time . Old Guy glared from one to an- other , as though he intended to stand at bay , but he thought better of it , and taking the tankard in his ...
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... thing can be , is puzzling enough without any theory to per- plex the matter ; but when there is no possibility of denying the fact , common observers , who do not feel their own discrimination disparaged by the paradox , may admit and ...
... thing can be , is puzzling enough without any theory to per- plex the matter ; but when there is no possibility of denying the fact , common observers , who do not feel their own discrimination disparaged by the paradox , may admit and ...
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... thing remains to the unhappy self- regarding soul . He is more incap- able than ever of extracting any joy out of ... things ever were , have manifestly nothing to do with this dismal life . The man has chosen his own way , and his own ...
... thing remains to the unhappy self- regarding soul . He is more incap- able than ever of extracting any joy out of ... things ever were , have manifestly nothing to do with this dismal life . The man has chosen his own way , and his own ...
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... thing's over , and I'm thankful it was no worse . ' 66 " 2 Always said it would come to this , " said Tom , who was so delight- ed at the fulfilment of his prediction , that , having occasion to take a fresh cigar from his case , he ...
... thing's over , and I'm thankful it was no worse . ' 66 " 2 Always said it would come to this , " said Tom , who was so delight- ed at the fulfilment of his prediction , that , having occasion to take a fresh cigar from his case , he ...
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Page 297 - The two great rules for design are these : 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.
Page 422 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Page 519 - ... alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government ; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the...
Page 40 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit: or whither shall I go then from thy presence? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 328 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Page 573 - ... arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials — satins, and lace, and silks — all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white.
Page 575 - A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars ; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. "O! Don't cut my throat, sir,
Page 659 - ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy nothing — a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection?
Page 422 - I write by the coach the more speedily and effectually to prevent your coming hither. Perhaps by my fame (and I hope it is so) you mean only that celebrity which is a consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends.
Page 632 - God, in that day, manifested her merey to the townsmen, and delivered them from their foes. And they then went thence, and wrought the greatest evil that ever any army could do, in burning, and harrying, and in manslayings, as well by the sea-coast as in Essex, and in Kent, and in Sussex, and in Hampshire.