Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... lives , so does the soldier - perhaps the latter fares rather above the average of the householder at large . The ... live with you to - morrow : the quartered soldier is but one of a large and rather miscellaneous circle of persons ...
... lives , so does the soldier - perhaps the latter fares rather above the average of the householder at large . The ... live with you to - morrow : the quartered soldier is but one of a large and rather miscellaneous circle of persons ...
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... live in rags and want . It is plain the nation is full of people , and it is as plain our people have no particular aversion to the war , but they are not poor enough to go abroad . It is pov- erty makes men soldiers , and drives ...
... live in rags and want . It is plain the nation is full of people , and it is as plain our people have no particular aversion to the war , but they are not poor enough to go abroad . It is pov- erty makes men soldiers , and drives ...
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... lives were preserved , deserves to be especially mentioned . Dr But- ler and Lieut . Saunders of the 9th Cavalry , both living together in the house of the latter , had agreed that , in case of an outbreak , their car- riages should be ...
... lives were preserved , deserves to be especially mentioned . Dr But- ler and Lieut . Saunders of the 9th Cavalry , both living together in the house of the latter , had agreed that , in case of an outbreak , their car- riages should be ...
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... live . Be- sides , independently of these pruden- tial though not ardent motives for declaring unalterable fidelity to troth , Jasper at that time really did enter- tain what he called love for the handsome young woman - flattered that ...
... live . Be- sides , independently of these pruden- tial though not ardent motives for declaring unalterable fidelity to troth , Jasper at that time really did enter- tain what he called love for the handsome young woman - flattered that ...
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... live very showily on their wits . In that strange social fermentation which still prevails in a country where an aristocracy of birth , exceedingly impoverished , and exceedingly numerous so far as the right to prefix a De to the name ...
... live very showily on their wits . In that strange social fermentation which still prevails in a country where an aristocracy of birth , exceedingly impoverished , and exceedingly numerous so far as the right to prefix a De to the name ...
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Page 410 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 465 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
Page 257 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
Page 415 - My blessin' and my pride; There's nothing left to care for now, Since my poor Mary died. Yours was the good, brave heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on, When the trust in God had left my soul, And my arm's young strength was gone; There was comfort ever on your lip, And the kind look on your brow, — 1 bless you, Mary, for that same, Though you cannot hear me now.
Page 102 - And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Page 523 - O, thou child of many prayers ! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares ! Care and age come unawares ! Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June.
Page 193 - Onward they came in their joy, and around them the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam panting and heaving ; and rainbows Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the wine-dark depths of the crystal, the gardens Coral and sea-fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of, the ocean.
Page 418 - Nor scream can any raise, nor prayer can any say, But wild, wild, the terror of the speechless three — For they feel fair Anna Grace drawn silently away, By whom they dare not look to see. They feel their tresses twine with her parting locks of gold, And the curls elastic falling, as her head withdraws ; They feel her sliding arms from their tranced arms unfold, But they...
Page 417 - Are hushed the maidens' voices, as cowering down they lie In the flutter of their sudden awe. For, from the air above, and the grassy ground beneath, And from the mountain-ashes and the old whitethorn between, A power of faint enchantment doth through their beings breathe, And they sink down together on the green.