Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33W. Blackwood., 1833 |
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... beautiful ; the house stood on a platform scarped out of the hillside , with a beautiful view of 1833. ] 37 Tom Cringle's Log .
... beautiful ; the house stood on a platform scarped out of the hillside , with a beautiful view of 1833. ] 37 Tom Cringle's Log .
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... beautiful . The house , situated on its white plateau of barbicues , as the coffee platforms are called , where large piles of the berries in their red cherrylike husks had been blackening in the sun the whole forenoon , and on which a ...
... beautiful . The house , situated on its white plateau of barbicues , as the coffee platforms are called , where large piles of the berries in their red cherrylike husks had been blackening in the sun the whole forenoon , and on which a ...
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... beautiful little insect , as big as a miller's thumb , with a white trunk and a black head - in one word , a gigantic caterpillar . Bang fed thereon , but it was beyond my compass . However , all this while we were having a great deal ...
... beautiful little insect , as big as a miller's thumb , with a white trunk and a black head - in one word , a gigantic caterpillar . Bang fed thereon , but it was beyond my compass . However , all this while we were having a great deal ...
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... beautiful cities of Greece and Asia Minor . The Rome of that time was in many parts built of wood ; and there is much probability that it must have been a picturesque city , and in parts almost grotesque . But it is remarkable , and a ...
... beautiful cities of Greece and Asia Minor . The Rome of that time was in many parts built of wood ; and there is much probability that it must have been a picturesque city , and in parts almost grotesque . But it is remarkable , and a ...
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... beautiful and brave ! Our lovely , gentle , generous , gallant boy ! Oh ! what a sum of ardent hope and joy Lies crush'd and wither'd in thy distant grave ! Thy cheek in its first down , -thy dark blue eye , Bright flashing with an ...
... beautiful and brave ! Our lovely , gentle , generous , gallant boy ! Oh ! what a sum of ardent hope and joy Lies crush'd and wither'd in thy distant grave ! Thy cheek in its first down , -thy dark blue eye , Bright flashing with an ...
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Page 363 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 397 - I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me : I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious ; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in : What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven ! We are arrant knaves, all ; believe none of us : Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Page 403 - Must there no more be done ? We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem, and such rest to her, As to peace-parted souls. Laer. Lay her i...
Page 397 - You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.
Page 398 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy : O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see ! Re-enter King and POLONIUS.
Page 158 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Page 157 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 402 - There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 554 - They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day ; and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Page 399 - How should I your true love know From another one ? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon.