Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 22Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1847 |
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... mountains of the pre - human world ; and should friends laugh or foes jeer at me for indulging in these excursive flights , I console myself with the knowledge that the electric spark will not pass through all substances alike — and the ...
... mountains of the pre - human world ; and should friends laugh or foes jeer at me for indulging in these excursive flights , I console myself with the knowledge that the electric spark will not pass through all substances alike — and the ...
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... mountains , like a vast curtain , was drawn around the extreme distance , and a yellow sluggish river , like a huge serpent , was lazily worming itself through the smoking plains . The atmosphere was oppressive and stifling , and was ...
... mountains , like a vast curtain , was drawn around the extreme distance , and a yellow sluggish river , like a huge serpent , was lazily worming itself through the smoking plains . The atmosphere was oppressive and stifling , and was ...
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... mountains , and stately oaks , ash , and beech - trees covered the land with verdure . A crystal clearness was in the running streams as they wandered through the velvet turf of the rich alluvial plains , while the blandness of the ...
... mountains , and stately oaks , ash , and beech - trees covered the land with verdure . A crystal clearness was in the running streams as they wandered through the velvet turf of the rich alluvial plains , while the blandness of the ...
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... mountain waves , which , with its mighty strength , dashed against the vessel's broadside . The aspect , when arriving on deck , was sublime , but awful ; wave upon wave , towering and curling as they approached , rushed to the onset ...
... mountain waves , which , with its mighty strength , dashed against the vessel's broadside . The aspect , when arriving on deck , was sublime , but awful ; wave upon wave , towering and curling as they approached , rushed to the onset ...
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... mountains are on both ends of the island , being divided by a central valley or plain . Porto Santo is destitute of wood , and presents but little appearance of cultivation . It has only one spring of fresh water on the northern side ...
... mountains are on both ends of the island , being divided by a central valley or plain . Porto Santo is destitute of wood , and presents but little appearance of cultivation . It has only one spring of fresh water on the northern side ...
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Page 394 - Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown, It must, or we shall rue it, We have a vision of our own, Ah ! why should we undo it...
Page 169 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 200 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 309 - Friends and comrades!" he said, "on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.
Page 68 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Page 554 - I will go with her willingly. Nothing can be more affecting and melancholy to me than what I see here : yet he takes my visit so kindly, that I should have lost one great pleasure, had I not come. I have nothing more to say, as I have nothing in my mind but this present object, which indeed is extraordinary. This man was never born to die like other men, any more than to live like them.* I am ever yours, &c.
Page 553 - Thou wild thing, that always art leaping or aching, What black, brown, or fair, in what clime, in what nation, By turns has not taught thee a pit-a-patation ?
Page 541 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 271 - with one foot on the land, and the other on the sea...
Page 252 - Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb; Perhaps the weakness of a heart not void Of feeling for some kindness done, when power Had left the wretch an uncorrupted hour.