Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 24W. Blackwood., 1828 |
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... ground . I gazed at his huge body for an instant , as he lay , and drew my long - held breath ; but this ill - timed pause was near- ly fatal . I was recalled to myself by a blow , which , parried by Selim's sword , whistled harmlessly ...
... ground . I gazed at his huge body for an instant , as he lay , and drew my long - held breath ; but this ill - timed pause was near- ly fatal . I was recalled to myself by a blow , which , parried by Selim's sword , whistled harmlessly ...
Page 60
... ground , from whence he never rose again ; -the others , checking their horses in full career , wheeled off a few paces to either side , and halted . I saw my arrow sticking in the shoulder of the right- hand horse . A way we rode once ...
... ground , from whence he never rose again ; -the others , checking their horses in full career , wheeled off a few paces to either side , and halted . I saw my arrow sticking in the shoulder of the right- hand horse . A way we rode once ...
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... ground ; the ball had passed through his body . Nor was I less fortunate in my aim : as the horse of the second , terrified at the noise and fire of the matchlock , reared and turned round , my arrow struck the rider behind the ear : he ...
... ground ; the ball had passed through his body . Nor was I less fortunate in my aim : as the horse of the second , terrified at the noise and fire of the matchlock , reared and turned round , my arrow struck the rider behind the ear : he ...
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... ground . In matters of this sort he is a complete Bourgognoni , vivid , vigo rous , and spirit - stirring , in all his de- lineations of broil and battle . Our readers shall not take all this praise upon trust . Let them read the fol ...
... ground . In matters of this sort he is a complete Bourgognoni , vivid , vigo rous , and spirit - stirring , in all his de- lineations of broil and battle . Our readers shall not take all this praise upon trust . Let them read the fol ...
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... ground , when , gazing wildly at me for a moment , he recognised me , and said with a ghastly smile , Ah , my friend , you will not laugh at me now ! But go - you are required ; take my place and do your duty ; mine is over ! ' There ...
... ground , when , gazing wildly at me for a moment , he recognised me , and said with a ghastly smile , Ah , my friend , you will not laugh at me now ! But go - you are required ; take my place and do your duty ; mine is over ! ' There ...
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Page 540 - Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 574 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd...
Page 469 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 574 - Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 254 - How delightful in the early spring, after the dull and tedious time of winter, when the frosts disappear and the sunshine warms the earth and waters, to wander forth by some clear stream, to see the leaf bursting from the purple bud, to scent the odours of the bank perfumed by the violet, and enamelled, as it were, with the primrose and the daisy; to wander upon the fresh turf below the shade of trees, whose bright blossoms are filled with the music of the bee...
Page 348 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 573 - If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover, And shalt by fortune once more re-survey These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover, Compare them with the bettering of the time, And though they be outstripp'd by every pen, Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme, Exceeded by the height of happier men.
Page 271 - You are severe on Cockney fishermen, and, I suppose, would apply to them only, the observation of Dr. Johnson, which on a former occasion you would not allow to be just: " Angling is an amusement with a stick and a string; a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.
Page 15 - Constitution is placed, namely, the Church of England being the established one, and that those who hold employments in the State must be members of it, and consequently obliged not only to take Oaths against Popery, but to receive the Holy Communion agreeably to the rites of the Church of England.
Page 185 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.