Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30W. Blackwood, 1831 - England |
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... soon became my playmates ; and before my ideas were sufficiently formed to en- able me to estimate the difference be- tween the azure tints of the sky , and the emerald hue of the bright foliage , I felt that an intimacy with them , not ...
... soon became my playmates ; and before my ideas were sufficiently formed to en- able me to estimate the difference be- tween the azure tints of the sky , and the emerald hue of the bright foliage , I felt that an intimacy with them , not ...
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... Soon after his arrival in Edinburgh , where he soon found many friends , he opened his Exhibition . Four hun- dred drawings - paintings in water- colours of about two thousand birds , covered the walls of the Insti- tution - Hall , in ...
... Soon after his arrival in Edinburgh , where he soon found many friends , he opened his Exhibition . Four hun- dred drawings - paintings in water- colours of about two thousand birds , covered the walls of the Insti- tution - Hall , in ...
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... soon agree- ance of her crew , which consisted of old Adams and all the young men of the island . Before they ventured to take hold of the ship , they enquired if they might come on board ; and upon permis- sion being granted , they ...
... soon agree- ance of her crew , which consisted of old Adams and all the young men of the island . Before they ventured to take hold of the ship , they enquired if they might come on board ; and upon permis- sion being granted , they ...
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... soon found , through our inter- course with these excellent people , that they had no wants excepting such as had been created by an intercourse with vessels . Nature has been extremely bountiful to them ; and necessity has taught them ...
... soon found , through our inter- course with these excellent people , that they had no wants excepting such as had been created by an intercourse with vessels . Nature has been extremely bountiful to them ; and necessity has taught them ...
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... soon observed upon the beach . Tuwarri's horror of cannibals was great , and his courage small , so that the appearance of the men on the shore , together with the loading of the muskets in the boat ( in case of necessity ) , gave him ...
... soon observed upon the beach . Tuwarri's horror of cannibals was great , and his courage small , so that the appearance of the men on the shore , together with the loading of the muskets in the boat ( in case of necessity ) , gave him ...
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Page 591 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 539 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 538 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 375 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 50 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 350 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 349 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Page 51 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 375 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Page 265 - We marched them into the woods off the road, and having used them as Regulators were wont to use such delinquents, we set fire to the cabin, gave all the skins and implements to the young Indian warrior, and proceeded, well pleased, towards the settlements.
Page 51 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...