Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 36W. Blackwood, 1834 - England |
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... passed for that purpose round his barrel . He would have spurned at such an indignity with all his hoofs . Besides , where was the tackle or machinery sufficiently strong to reinstate him on the sur- face ? In this emergency , Billy ...
... passed for that purpose round his barrel . He would have spurned at such an indignity with all his hoofs . Besides , where was the tackle or machinery sufficiently strong to reinstate him on the sur- face ? In this emergency , Billy ...
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... passed for his own ghost . So reduced , he was a mere feather - weight . " Poor putty - face ! ' we involuntarily ejaculated- " sal- lower than thine own doeskins ! " Seeing us , he smiled as if he were weeping - but not a word did he ...
... passed for his own ghost . So reduced , he was a mere feather - weight . " Poor putty - face ! ' we involuntarily ejaculated- " sal- lower than thine own doeskins ! " Seeing us , he smiled as if he were weeping - but not a word did he ...
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... passed , for I was not sorry of another opportuni- ty of paying a visit to my amiable friends of last evening . " I say , Dennis , I think I will go on board myself , instead of sending any of the boys . " " As you please , Brail ...
... passed , for I was not sorry of another opportuni- ty of paying a visit to my amiable friends of last evening . " I say , Dennis , I think I will go on board myself , instead of sending any of the boys . " " As you please , Brail ...
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... passed among the men . " Thunder ! " quoth old Dogvane , " I wish it were , my lads . " " It is Davy putting on the coppers for the parsons , and nothing else , " said Drainings . " What is that ? " The frigate had fired a gun to at ...
... passed among the men . " Thunder ! " quoth old Dogvane , " I wish it were , my lads . " " It is Davy putting on the coppers for the parsons , and nothing else , " said Drainings . " What is that ? " The frigate had fired a gun to at ...
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... passed for the men to hold on and make themselves fast , seeing them lay hold of ropes , in imitation caught one too ; but , alas for Dicky ! it was the slack end , so that the sea washed him overboard like smoke , and being unable to ...
... passed for the men to hold on and make themselves fast , seeing them lay hold of ropes , in imitation caught one too ; but , alas for Dicky ! it was the slack end , so that the sea washed him overboard like smoke , and being unable to ...
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Page 521 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled...
Page 537 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 521 - O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink : Companion of the...
Page 536 - The Wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 537 - And some in dreams assured were Of. the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.
Page 514 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 535 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 160 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 535 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 536 - And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, " There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.