Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 56W. Blackwood., 1844 - England |
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... French so often tried the effect of cannon upon each other . It is now what it used to be - fishing ground . The Romans got their finest muræna from the whirlpools of Charybdis . * The shark ( cane di mare ) abounding here , would make ...
... French so often tried the effect of cannon upon each other . It is now what it used to be - fishing ground . The Romans got their finest muræna from the whirlpools of Charybdis . * The shark ( cane di mare ) abounding here , would make ...
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... French war : in a word , the whole of this Sicilian road is so variously lovely , that if we did not know the cornice between Nice and Genoa , we should say it was quite unrivaled , being at once in lavish possession of all the grand ...
... French war : in a word , the whole of this Sicilian road is so variously lovely , that if we did not know the cornice between Nice and Genoa , we should say it was quite unrivaled , being at once in lavish possession of all the grand ...
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... French king , on her passage through Namur ; and , once established in the citadel of that stronghold of the royalists , he quit- ted it no more . In process of time , a camp was formed in the environs , and fortresses erected on the ...
... French king , on her passage through Namur ; and , once established in the citadel of that stronghold of the royalists , he quit- ted it no more . In process of time , a camp was formed in the environs , and fortresses erected on the ...
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... French princess were as much a feint as her own illness ; and that he was as completely absorbed in keeping at bay his heretic subjects , as her highness by the desire of con- verting them into the subjects of France . It was only those ...
... French princess were as much a feint as her own illness ; and that he was as completely absorbed in keeping at bay his heretic subjects , as her highness by the desire of con- verting them into the subjects of France . It was only those ...
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... French kings , and sister - in - law of the Duke of Lorraine , was a person for even the thick - skulled Walloons to respect . It was not money that was wanting → it was patience . O , these Parisians ! Make me monkey - keeper ...
... French kings , and sister - in - law of the Duke of Lorraine , was a person for even the thick - skulled Walloons to respect . It was not money that was wanting → it was patience . O , these Parisians ! Make me monkey - keeper ...
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Page 312 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 122 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 390 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 393 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 235 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Page 539 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.
Page 266 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 185 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 623 - She has thrown her bonnet by, And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow : Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping While she rocketh to and fro.
Page 114 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.