Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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... believe it ; they remark incredulously that " they cannot account for the fact of the yellow vision . " It would have been idle for me to have reasoned with this unfortunate Victim to Science , and besides we were just arriving at the ...
... believe it ; they remark incredulously that " they cannot account for the fact of the yellow vision . " It would have been idle for me to have reasoned with this unfortunate Victim to Science , and besides we were just arriving at the ...
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... believe , for the purpose of producing a greater sensation . Their language chilled my very blood at first ; but , after a time , it affected me no more than a tale fifty times told . The gang in which I was first placed consisted of a ...
... believe , for the purpose of producing a greater sensation . Their language chilled my very blood at first ; but , after a time , it affected me no more than a tale fifty times told . The gang in which I was first placed consisted of a ...
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... believe Harry's keeping company with Lucy Brand - Widow Brand's daughter , a good girl , and'- · Nonsense , Mrs Parsons , ' said I rather tartly . ' What business has a youngster of twenty - two or three with courting and marriage , on ...
... believe Harry's keeping company with Lucy Brand - Widow Brand's daughter , a good girl , and'- · Nonsense , Mrs Parsons , ' said I rather tartly . ' What business has a youngster of twenty - two or three with courting and marriage , on ...
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... believe the heart of Dripcastle will be worked out afore England sinks in the sea . ' " That's quite enough , ma'am , ' said I. called Concord , in this neighbourhood ? ' The man started , as if he had been bitten by an adder , and I ...
... believe the heart of Dripcastle will be worked out afore England sinks in the sea . ' " That's quite enough , ma'am , ' said I. called Concord , in this neighbourhood ? ' The man started , as if he had been bitten by an adder , and I ...
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... believe foreigners wonder : we , too , were surprised , and I have never most liable to misconception . True , wealth , com- heard any one speak of it without regret . But this mand , and leisure have given to the manners of our was not ...
... believe foreigners wonder : we , too , were surprised , and I have never most liable to misconception . True , wealth , com- heard any one speak of it without regret . But this mand , and leisure have given to the manners of our was not ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 92 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!
Página 92 - Yet there is time!" At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past; And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last. With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Página 93 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace - all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech.
Página 93 - That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra' Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra
Página 92 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Página 94 - At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe...
Página 92 - The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at his sermon on the mount, Saint Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables . . . but I know Ye mark me not!
Página 93 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Página 93 - Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 92 - And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...