Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volumen 270F. Jefferies, 1891 |
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... period , had gone on for a century and more . This drew to the place all the adventurers , the knights of industry , and " unclassed characters of Europe " ; and there was something in this contrast between the innocent pastoral air of ...
... period , had gone on for a century and more . This drew to the place all the adventurers , the knights of industry , and " unclassed characters of Europe " ; and there was something in this contrast between the innocent pastoral air of ...
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... period of interregnum at that time in the tenancy of the manse . The silver - haired minister , Saunders Macdonald , had been gathered to his fathers , and all Carglen was anxiously awaiting the advent of the new spiritual teacher . It ...
... period of interregnum at that time in the tenancy of the manse . The silver - haired minister , Saunders Macdonald , had been gathered to his fathers , and all Carglen was anxiously awaiting the advent of the new spiritual teacher . It ...
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... period of the history of my parish there was no vestry or retiring - room in the big kirk , only two large , lumbering , draughty porches . Meanwhile the country folks are arriving , and so have they been for the last half - hour ...
... period of the history of my parish there was no vestry or retiring - room in the big kirk , only two large , lumbering , draughty porches . Meanwhile the country folks are arriving , and so have they been for the last half - hour ...
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... period to which my story refers , there had been a hotly - contested trial of vocal skill , with the result that Willie Jenkins was " gazetted " as the new precentor . Jacob McWilliam , from the Stanes o ' Baldearie , considered himself ...
... period to which my story refers , there had been a hotly - contested trial of vocal skill , with the result that Willie Jenkins was " gazetted " as the new precentor . Jacob McWilliam , from the Stanes o ' Baldearie , considered himself ...
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... period when it is lawful to take them is regulated by the exigencies of the particular season . Microscopic students will find the pectoral fin an excellent medium for the study of the blood- circulation ; each corpuscle can be followed ...
... period when it is lawful to take them is regulated by the exigencies of the particular season . Microscopic students will find the pectoral fin an excellent medium for the study of the blood- circulation ; each corpuscle can be followed ...
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Página 68 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Página 17 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.
Página 369 - Now I'ma wretch, indeed. Methinks I see him already in the cart, sweeter and more lovely than the nosegay in his hand!— I hear the crowd extolling his resolution and intrepidity! What volleys of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn, that so comely a youth should be brought to disgrace! I see him at the treel The whole circle are in tears! —even butchers weep!
Página 621 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Página 9 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Página 633 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 486 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Página 486 - There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags.
Página 193 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 9 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in...