The Illuminated Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 3William James Linton Published for the proprietors, 1843 |
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... village . Few things in Sindh appear to the traveller so strange as this ; and however often he may have voyaged upon the Indus , and consequently remarked these fisher- men , he can never regard them without interest and curiosity ...
... village . Few things in Sindh appear to the traveller so strange as this ; and however often he may have voyaged upon the Indus , and consequently remarked these fisher- men , he can never regard them without interest and curiosity ...
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... villages , they and their horses ; a measure by no means satisfactory , I should think , either to the goats or fowls ... village children , it was announced that Meer Ali Moorad would commence his sports by the attack of a tigress and ...
... villages , they and their horses ; a measure by no means satisfactory , I should think , either to the goats or fowls ... village children , it was announced that Meer Ali Moorad would commence his sports by the attack of a tigress and ...
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... villages , containing in all a population of about 9000 people . The district , which comprised Praya and these villages , is the most fertile in the island , and was on this account selected as a residence by the early settlers . The ...
... villages , containing in all a population of about 9000 people . The district , which comprised Praya and these villages , is the most fertile in the island , and was on this account selected as a residence by the early settlers . The ...
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... village about two miles to the south - westward of Jarrow , in the monastery of which he died , A. D. 735. The cut at the commence- ment of this article presents a view of Jarrow Church , from the eastward . This church , which ...
... village about two miles to the south - westward of Jarrow , in the monastery of which he died , A. D. 735. The cut at the commence- ment of this article presents a view of Jarrow Church , from the eastward . This church , which ...
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... village , resided in a modest tenement , situate at the edge of the great Fulham road . His establishment comprised himself and his housekeeper - a staid woman , of matronly appearance - from which circumstance it may be fairly presumed ...
... village , resided in a modest tenement , situate at the edge of the great Fulham road . His establishment comprised himself and his housekeeper - a staid woman , of matronly appearance - from which circumstance it may be fairly presumed ...
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Page 58 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 288 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page 176 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Page 288 - ... enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances. It is needed to withstand the encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science, which being now sought, not as formerly for intellectual gratification, but for multiplying bodily comforts, requires a new developement...
Page 121 - ... writhing freaks and furious face, To dash him on a gong, but that amidst The struggling mass Encolyon thrust a pine, Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole, O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell.
Page 59 - The ladies were mostly travelling in kajavas, and were mixed up with the baggage and column in the pass : here they were heavily fired on. Many camels were killed. On one camel were, in one kajava, Mrs. Boyd and her youngest boy Hugh ; and in the other Mrs. Mainwaring and her infant, scarcely three months old, and Mrs. Anderson's eldest child. This camel was shot. Mrs. Boyd got a horse to ride ; and her child was put on another behind a man, who being shortly after unfortunately killed, the child...
Page 48 - ... carriages for conveying the coal) at hand, and the moment it has passed they let the door fall to, which it does of its own weight. If anything impedes the shutting of the door they remove it, or, if unable to do so, run to the nearest man to do it for them.
Page 123 - David was a silent though stirring child, and loved, when scarce escaped from his mother's bosom, to draw such figures as struck his young fancy on the sand by the stream-side, on the smooth stones of the field, on the floors of the manse; nor was it unobserved that most of these early scratchings had a leaning towards the humorous and the absurd. He has been heard, when his fame was high, to declare, that he could draw before he could read, and paint before he could spell...
Page 27 - Wearmouth, dedicated to St. Peter, about seven years before. According to an inscription, of the period, now placed within Jarrow church, over the arch of the tower, it was dedicated " to St. Paul, on the 9th of the kalends of May, in the 15th year of King Egfrid, and in the 4th of Ceolfrid, abbot of the said church," that is, on the 22d April, 685.
Page 16 - arms" we trace; Thou, her mirror, hast the pair, • Lion here, and leopard there. She had part in these^ — akin To the lion-heart was Gwynne; And the leopard's beauty fell With its spots to bounding Nell. Oft inspected, ne'er seen through, Thou art firm, if brittle too; So her will, on good intent, Might be broken, never bent. What the glass was, when therein Beamed the face of glad Nell Gwynne, Was that face by beauty's spell To the honest soul of Nell.