Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 120William Blackwood, 1876 - England |
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... once ; you back red next time , and stop . You are on black , and win ; you double . This is the game if you have only a few pounds . But with five hun- dred pounds you can double more courageously , and work the short run hard ; and ...
... once ; you back red next time , and stop . You are on black , and win ; you double . This is the game if you have only a few pounds . But with five hun- dred pounds you can double more courageously , and work the short run hard ; and ...
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... once in every three years , in spite of my experience , I am always bitten again . After my lucid in- terval has expired , I fall in with some woman who seems not like [ July the rest , but an angel . Then I , though I'm averse to the ...
... once in every three years , in spite of my experience , I am always bitten again . After my lucid in- terval has expired , I fall in with some woman who seems not like [ July the rest , but an angel . Then I , though I'm averse to the ...
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... once more . - " Where ? in Frankfort ? " " No : at Homburg ; at the opera . You must give me your word not to tell a soul . " " I pledge you my word of hon- our . " " Well ; the lady who sang the part of ' Siebel . ' " " Siebel ...
... once more . - " Where ? in Frankfort ? " " No : at Homburg ; at the opera . You must give me your word not to tell a soul . " " I pledge you my word of hon- our . " " Well ; the lady who sang the part of ' Siebel . ' " " Siebel ...
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... once . He doesn't want your advice ; he wants the one thing he asks for . There , get me the bills , and I'll draw a cheque on Müller : Herries advised him by Saturday's post ; so we can draw on Monday . " " All right , old man , " said ...
... once . He doesn't want your advice ; he wants the one thing he asks for . There , get me the bills , and I'll draw a cheque on Müller : Herries advised him by Saturday's post ; so we can draw on Monday . " " All right , old man , " said ...
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... once . " " Well , you see , I am the audience . We can't be all dramatis personæ , and no spectator . During the wait , I wonder whether the audience , having nothing better to do , may be permitted to smoke a cigar . " " So long a ...
... once . " " Well , you see , I am the audience . We can't be all dramatis personæ , and no spectator . During the wait , I wonder whether the audience , having nothing better to do , may be permitted to smoke a cigar . " " So long a ...
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Page 316 - And his mercy is on them that fear him From generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm ; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, And exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things ; And the rich he hath sent empty away.
Page 726 - ... bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give; And I with thee will choose to live.
Page 713 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 31 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 726 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth...
Page 726 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Page 179 - Maître de Philosophie. La voix U se forme en rapprochant les dents sans les joindre entièrement, et allongeant les deux lèvres en dehors, les approchant aussi l'une de l'autre, sans les joindre tout à fait: U. M. Jourdain. U, U. Il n'ya rien de plus véritable : U. Le Maître de Philosophie.
Page 713 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star...
Page 26 - That no man is the lord of any thing, (Though in and of him there be much consisting,) Till he communicate his parts to others...
Page 30 - A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes • From whence 'tis nourished : The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes.