Longman's Magazine, Volume 15Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... some diseased Egyptian and make straight for his own face ? Perhaps it is not fair to write of sandflies as flies . But they are a very disagreeable kind of fly , and they attack human beings SOME INDIAN INSECTS . 37.
... some diseased Egyptian and make straight for his own face ? Perhaps it is not fair to write of sandflies as flies . But they are a very disagreeable kind of fly , and they attack human beings SOME INDIAN INSECTS . 37.
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disagreeable kind of fly , and they attack human beings with a zeal worthy of a better cause . The worst of it is that one can hardly see the enemy , he is so tiny , and he has a bad habit of finding his way through any hole , however ...
disagreeable kind of fly , and they attack human beings with a zeal worthy of a better cause . The worst of it is that one can hardly see the enemy , he is so tiny , and he has a bad habit of finding his way through any hole , however ...
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... kind . A white ant has several forms , but perhaps his most dangerous form is that in which he is more like a white maggot than an ordinary ant . In this maggot - form the white ants work under cover of a tunnel- ling of soft mud ...
... kind . A white ant has several forms , but perhaps his most dangerous form is that in which he is more like a white maggot than an ordinary ant . In this maggot - form the white ants work under cover of a tunnel- ling of soft mud ...
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... kind of thing that makes me curious . I want to know how the king looked , how he was dressed , and in which of those solemn - looking old bedrooms upstairs he slept . No doubt you still have the bed the king slept in ? ' ' No , ' I ...
... kind of thing that makes me curious . I want to know how the king looked , how he was dressed , and in which of those solemn - looking old bedrooms upstairs he slept . No doubt you still have the bed the king slept in ? ' ' No , ' I ...
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... kind Nature . Don Josef received us with as hearty a British welcome as if his name conveyed no suggestion whatever of the Hidalgo . He was genuinely pleased to see us , nor was his welcome confined to words alone , for he forthwith ...
... kind Nature . Don Josef received us with as hearty a British welcome as if his name conveyed no suggestion whatever of the Hidalgo . He was genuinely pleased to see us , nor was his welcome confined to words alone , for he forthwith ...
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Page 447 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Page 441 - Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore, Though evening with her richest dye Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruined pride.
Page 443 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 442 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 442 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, i Sleep to wake.
Page 18 - Lamb ; it is the fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints.
Page 625 - The maner of these playes weare, every company had his pagiant, wch pagiants weare a high scaffolde with 2 rowmes, a higher and a lower, upon 4 wheeles. In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher rowme they played, beinge all open on the tope, that all behoulders might heare and see them.
Page 224 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 627 - Me thynk he pepys. Mak. When he wakyns, he wepys. I pray you go hence. 66 iijus pastor. Gyf me lefe hym to kys and lyft up the clowtt. What the dewill is this? He has a long snowte.
Page 216 - ... it must make amends by displaying depth of knowledge and dexterity of execution. We, therefore, bestow no mean compliment upon the author of •Emma, when we say that, keeping close to common incidents, and to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners and sentiments, greatly above our own.