Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Volumes 3-4W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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... seemed an affectionate parting look on his beloved wife ; and with lineaments to the full as stony as his own , did that devoted creature immovably sit . She shed not a tear ; not an eyelash quivered , not a muscle stirred , not once ...
... seemed an affectionate parting look on his beloved wife ; and with lineaments to the full as stony as his own , did that devoted creature immovably sit . She shed not a tear ; not an eyelash quivered , not a muscle stirred , not once ...
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... seemed at a loss in any dilemma . He broke up a deal - box , containing wearing - apparel , observing that its contents would be required on the morrow . By this means a capital fire was raised ; and whilst the grateful Englishwoman ...
... seemed at a loss in any dilemma . He broke up a deal - box , containing wearing - apparel , observing that its contents would be required on the morrow . By this means a capital fire was raised ; and whilst the grateful Englishwoman ...
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... seemed to confer a new life . The sergeant and his friend , after speaking a few words of affectionate encouragement to the beings now so help- lessly dependent on them , withdrew for the night . On rejoining the Kuzzilbashes , their ...
... seemed to confer a new life . The sergeant and his friend , after speaking a few words of affectionate encouragement to the beings now so help- lessly dependent on them , withdrew for the night . On rejoining the Kuzzilbashes , their ...
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... seemed only to have one object - to slaughter all in the Pass . After a pause , the accumulated crowds slowly resumed their progress , nearly every footstep they now took being pressed on the bodies of the slain . On they moved , and ...
... seemed only to have one object - to slaughter all in the Pass . After a pause , the accumulated crowds slowly resumed their progress , nearly every footstep they now took being pressed on the bodies of the slain . On they moved , and ...
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... seemed most convenient to him . Unfortunately , the day was warm , the way long , and the minister fat , so that he became heartily tired of his burden before he got half- way home . Under these distressing circumstances , it struck him ...
... seemed most convenient to him . Unfortunately , the day was warm , the way long , and the minister fat , so that he became heartily tired of his burden before he got half- way home . Under these distressing circumstances , it struck him ...
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Page 178 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 177 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 10 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun' Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 177 - Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend...
Page 156 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 37 - O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern light,' And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o
Page 65 - He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
Page 154 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it.
Page 156 - The melancholy history of Logan must be dismissed with no relief to its gloomy colors. He was himself a victim to the same ferocious cruelty which had already rendered him a desolate man. Not long after the treaty a party of whites murdered him, as he was returning from Detroit to his own country.
Page 57 - Academy, for the purpose of purchasing " works of fine art of the highest merit in painting and sculpture," but only such as shall have been entirely executed "within the shores of Great Britain • " the " wish and intention " of the artist being " that the works of art so purchased shall be collected for the purpose of forming and establishing a public national collection of British art in painting and sculpture.