Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 91W. Blackwood, 1862 |
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... light flaxen hair lay dishevelled in loops and bands on her forehead , or hung in loose tresses and waving pen- dants over her neck ; but to classify the face , to say it was classic , or Saxon , or Celtic , was impossible . You might ...
... light flaxen hair lay dishevelled in loops and bands on her forehead , or hung in loose tresses and waving pen- dants over her neck ; but to classify the face , to say it was classic , or Saxon , or Celtic , was impossible . You might ...
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... light , a figure only adapted for twilight and the shadows ; an unhappy soul , whom common charity is content to accept as a great painter , without special inquiry into his character , but whom the cruelty of friends forces forth into ...
... light , a figure only adapted for twilight and the shadows ; an unhappy soul , whom common charity is content to accept as a great painter , without special inquiry into his character , but whom the cruelty of friends forces forth into ...
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... light upon him , the only relief to the general obscurity lying in those said dim jokes , the tricks of the varnishing days , in which he dis- tinguished himself by sudden in- spirations of change , when his pic- tures happened to be ...
... light upon him , the only relief to the general obscurity lying in those said dim jokes , the tricks of the varnishing days , in which he dis- tinguished himself by sudden in- spirations of change , when his pic- tures happened to be ...
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... light from heaven , faded from the closing eyelids of the old painter , upon whose murky life a light almost as glorious and as profoundly alien to the turbid stream it shone on had blazed and glistened ; but the tragedy is only ...
... light from heaven , faded from the closing eyelids of the old painter , upon whose murky life a light almost as glorious and as profoundly alien to the turbid stream it shone on had blazed and glistened ; but the tragedy is only ...
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... light- brown . Her age was between forty and fifty ; she inclined decidedly to embonpoint ; a fine bridge on her nose was the charter by which she claimed kindred with the Mac- Glashin , and a pair of lips about two inches thick ...
... light- brown . Her age was between forty and fifty ; she inclined decidedly to embonpoint ; a fine bridge on her nose was the charter by which she claimed kindred with the Mac- Glashin , and a pair of lips about two inches thick ...
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Página 575 - A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars ; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. "O! Don't cut my throat, sir,
Página 659 - ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy nothing — a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection?
Página 422 - I write by the coach the more speedily and effectually to prevent your coming hither. Perhaps by my fame (and I hope it is so) you mean only that celebrity which is a consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends.
Página 632 - God, in that day, manifested her merey to the townsmen, and delivered them from their foes. And they then went thence, and wrought the greatest evil that ever any army could do, in burning, and harrying, and in manslayings, as well by the sea-coast as in Essex, and in Kent, and in Sussex, and in Hampshire.