Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 22W. Blackwood & Sons, 1827 - Scotland |
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... never dreams of washing his face , except on Sunday ; but there are so many holidays obser- ved in Ireland , that Pat gives his as pect a wipe on an average twice a - week through the year . We have walked land , and never saw one young ...
... never dreams of washing his face , except on Sunday ; but there are so many holidays obser- ved in Ireland , that Pat gives his as pect a wipe on an average twice a - week through the year . We have walked land , and never saw one young ...
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... never set foot in the said churchyard - neither in the quiet rectory adjoining thereunto- neither in the pretty village wherein they are situated . And yet each and all of those localities are as familiar to my mind's eye - not only as ...
... never set foot in the said churchyard - neither in the quiet rectory adjoining thereunto- neither in the pretty village wherein they are situated . And yet each and all of those localities are as familiar to my mind's eye - not only as ...
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... never va- ried by season or circumstance , except that , regularly on the thirty - first of October , the rich lustring was ex- changed for a richer satin of the same colour ; a black lace handkerchief was superadded to that of snowy ...
... never va- ried by season or circumstance , except that , regularly on the thirty - first of October , the rich lustring was ex- changed for a richer satin of the same colour ; a black lace handkerchief was superadded to that of snowy ...
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... never be indifferent till It is not strictly philosophical , howman is assured , which none was ever ever , to account for the national teni . yet , that , with his breath , bis being perament by the national creed , un ; passes into ...
... never be indifferent till It is not strictly philosophical , howman is assured , which none was ever ever , to account for the national teni . yet , that , with his breath , bis being perament by the national creed , un ; passes into ...
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... never saw a ghost in my life , save aince a wraith . What ghost do you mean ? " " So you never saw nor heard tell of any apparition about Wineholm- place , lately ? " " No , I hae reason to be thankfu ' I have not . " " Weel , that ...
... never saw a ghost in my life , save aince a wraith . What ghost do you mean ? " " So you never saw nor heard tell of any apparition about Wineholm- place , lately ? " " No , I hae reason to be thankfu ' I have not . " " Weel , that ...
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Page 385 - And here we go backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy.
Page 44 - Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy:— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from...
Page 44 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 553 - I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
Page 503 - Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose. And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air And wander in the luxury of light.
Page 298 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 503 - ... native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, spread to the wafting breeze a two-fold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour. To me appearM this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like myself alive.
Page 161 - Lady-bird ! lady-bird ! fly away home ; — The field-mouse has gone to her nest, The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes, And the bees and the birds are at rest. Lady-bird ! lady-bird ! fly away home...
Page 503 - Glow'd with such orient tints, they might have been The rainbow's offspring, when it met the ocean In that resplendent vision I had seen. While yet in...
Page 588 - Lord, how manifold are thy works : in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is the great and wide sea also : wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan : whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.