Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... mind , whether it was the design of Providence that those who go down to the sea in ships should find the common causes of mortality more deadly in their ravages , than the tempests of the sea or the casual- ties of battle . The matter ...
... mind , whether it was the design of Providence that those who go down to the sea in ships should find the common causes of mortality more deadly in their ravages , than the tempests of the sea or the casual- ties of battle . The matter ...
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... mind , Arabella rushed into Dar- rell's study . He , unsuspecting man , calmly bending over his dull books , was startled by her apparition . Few minutes sufficed to tell him all that it concerned him to learn , Few brief questions ...
... mind , Arabella rushed into Dar- rell's study . He , unsuspecting man , calmly bending over his dull books , was startled by her apparition . Few minutes sufficed to tell him all that it concerned him to learn , Few brief questions ...
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... mind is diseased , tends towards self - destruction , scarce less involuntarily than it turns , in health , towards self - preservation . Just as she passed under the lamp light at the foot of Westminster Bridge , a well - dressed man ...
... mind is diseased , tends towards self - destruction , scarce less involuntarily than it turns , in health , towards self - preservation . Just as she passed under the lamp light at the foot of Westminster Bridge , a well - dressed man ...
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... mind to it ; and to be blown off to the antipodes as if I were the down of a pestilent thistle , I am not in the mind for that , Dolly Poole ! " " Hum ! " said Poole , trying_to smile . " This is funny talk . You always were a funny ...
... mind to it ; and to be blown off to the antipodes as if I were the down of a pestilent thistle , I am not in the mind for that , Dolly Poole ! " " Hum ! " said Poole , trying_to smile . " This is funny talk . You always were a funny ...
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... mind to pro- pose to one of the young ladies whose merits we have already discussed , you will not deem it necessary to try what effect a prolonged absence might pro- duce on your good resolution . " " No ! " said Darrell , with sudden ...
... mind to pro- pose to one of the young ladies whose merits we have already discussed , you will not deem it necessary to try what effect a prolonged absence might pro- duce on your good resolution . " " No ! " said Darrell , with sudden ...
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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.