Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 36Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1855 - American periodicals |
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... poor , he doctors peasants or cattle , as the case may be ( for he heard medical lectures at Edin- burgh ) , he takes an absorbing interest in the diet and gestation of sheep and kine , and can find amusement in the trifles which con ...
... poor , he doctors peasants or cattle , as the case may be ( for he heard medical lectures at Edin- burgh ) , he takes an absorbing interest in the diet and gestation of sheep and kine , and can find amusement in the trifles which con ...
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... poor ly dined to death . Some of the happiest jests of Smith were ecclesiastical . But such sallies were too professional to be profane . They seemed to rebound upon himself , or they played about his order ; they certainly scorched ...
... poor ly dined to death . Some of the happiest jests of Smith were ecclesiastical . But such sallies were too professional to be profane . They seemed to rebound upon himself , or they played about his order ; they certainly scorched ...
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... poor . " This is his reflection on being informed of the astonishing power of the tolling note uttered by the South American campanero : " The campanero may be heard three miles ! -- this little bird being more powerful than the belfry ...
... poor . " This is his reflection on being informed of the astonishing power of the tolling note uttered by the South American campanero : " The campanero may be heard three miles ! -- this little bird being more powerful than the belfry ...
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... poor village lad which he lent to aid a nation's cause ; to whom vanity was a strange thing , and envy a thing impossible ; and who used his danger- ous and dazzling gifts never to adorn a false- hood or insult the fallen , always to ...
... poor village lad which he lent to aid a nation's cause ; to whom vanity was a strange thing , and envy a thing impossible ; and who used his danger- ous and dazzling gifts never to adorn a false- hood or insult the fallen , always to ...
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... poor Silvio Pelico . The professor- ships are for a great part in the hands of Jes- uits ; and invisible spies surround the youth in his amusements and conversations . a system could , of course , but have the effect of crippling these ...
... poor Silvio Pelico . The professor- ships are for a great part in the hands of Jes- uits ; and invisible spies surround the youth in his amusements and conversations . a system could , of course , but have the effect of crippling these ...
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Page 628 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three Queens with crowns of gold — and from them rose • A cry that...
Page 627 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man...
Page 1004 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 628 - SWEET and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon...
Page 1092 - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee!
Page 870 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Page 902 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 634 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Page 628 - Aphrodite beautiful, Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells> With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder : from the violets her light foot Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded form Between the shadows of the vine-bunches Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved. " Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
Page 628 - Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast. Father will come to thee soon ', Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.