Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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... give an unenviable prominence to some of the operatives in the neighbourhood of Sheffield . The common idea of a grinder is , that he is some brute of a fellow who crawls at the lowest stratum of civilisation - that he is a reckless ...
... give an unenviable prominence to some of the operatives in the neighbourhood of Sheffield . The common idea of a grinder is , that he is some brute of a fellow who crawls at the lowest stratum of civilisation - that he is a reckless ...
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... Give a dog a bad name , and hang him , ' and this appears to be the case with the grinders . But while recording their former errors and extravagance , we would give them credit for their improvement , and encourage them to follow an ...
... Give a dog a bad name , and hang him , ' and this appears to be the case with the grinders . But while recording their former errors and extravagance , we would give them credit for their improvement , and encourage them to follow an ...
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... give us noses merely to blow , or adorn a profile ; they tell us what is bad to breathe and see ; but in London they seldom convey a warning of the presence of dirt , because there is none . Simple mud is harm- less enough ; it is a ...
... give us noses merely to blow , or adorn a profile ; they tell us what is bad to breathe and see ; but in London they seldom convey a warning of the presence of dirt , because there is none . Simple mud is harm- less enough ; it is a ...
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... give the length of a metre ; or used as a weight , they would give a hectogram , or tenth of a kilogram . Hence every centime forms at the same time a coin , a measure , and a weight . We must not omit to remind the reader that though ...
... give the length of a metre ; or used as a weight , they would give a hectogram , or tenth of a kilogram . Hence every centime forms at the same time a coin , a measure , and a weight . We must not omit to remind the reader that though ...
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... give a little jump as following him closely , I entered the mine , casting she espied me , and I am sure I heard her say some- back one involuntary look of regret at the free sky thing to her mother about ' Black James ; ' then the and ...
... give a little jump as following him closely , I entered the mine , casting she espied me , and I am sure I heard her say some- back one involuntary look of regret at the free sky thing to her mother about ' Black James ; ' then the and ...
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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...