Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 1Munroe and Francis, 1817 |
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... mountains 254 MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS 62 , 103 , 183 , 263 , 346 , 426 , 499 , 646 , 750 , 819 Incubus , or night - mare Memoir of Jacoba of Hainault 706 Indian poison for arrows Merry Andrew , its meaning 658 Influence of commerce ...
... mountains 254 MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS 62 , 103 , 183 , 263 , 346 , 426 , 499 , 646 , 750 , 819 Incubus , or night - mare Memoir of Jacoba of Hainault 706 Indian poison for arrows Merry Andrew , its meaning 658 Influence of commerce ...
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... mountain scenery 291 Timber , strength of 420 Tombuctoo , description of 937 Translation of the bible Waterloo , anecdote -- bravery at Welsh manners West's picture. Odin , notice of Old maids , undeserved stigma on Omens and charms ...
... mountain scenery 291 Timber , strength of 420 Tombuctoo , description of 937 Translation of the bible Waterloo , anecdote -- bravery at Welsh manners West's picture. Odin , notice of Old maids , undeserved stigma on Omens and charms ...
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... mountains are rent , and the rivers are changed into blood , and the two - edged sword is drawn from the sheath to drink gore as if it were water , and devour flesh as the fire de- vours dry stubble ? " After Henry Morton had declared ...
... mountains are rent , and the rivers are changed into blood , and the two - edged sword is drawn from the sheath to drink gore as if it were water , and devour flesh as the fire de- vours dry stubble ? " After Henry Morton had declared ...
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... mountains . The women have no idea of the population of Tombuctoo ; also incisions on their faces , but in a dif- but thinks that on one occasion , he saw ferent fashion ; the lines being from two as many as two thousand inhabitants as ...
... mountains . The women have no idea of the population of Tombuctoo ; also incisions on their faces , but in a dif- but thinks that on one occasion , he saw ferent fashion ; the lines being from two as many as two thousand inhabitants as ...
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... mountains , are evidently the pro- of years before our sun , a circumstance ducts of the digestion of oysters , polypi , which brings us much nearer to the end of and testacea in general . Now these little the world . Our globe was then ...
... mountains , are evidently the pro- of years before our sun , a circumstance ducts of the digestion of oysters , polypi , which brings us much nearer to the end of and testacea in general . Now these little the world . Our globe was then ...
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Page 117 - Twas still some solace, in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth. To hearken to each other's speech, And each turn comforter to each With some new hope, or legend old, Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold. Our voices took a dreary tone, An echo of the dungeon-stone, A grating sound— not full and free As they of yore were wont to be: It might be fancy — but to me They never sounded like our own...
Page 195 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing Of gentle breath and hue.
Page 405 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.
Page 117 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it...
Page 119 - The last — the sole — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 235 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 117 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...
Page 445 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.
Page 117 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls, A thousand feet in depth below, Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent...
Page 195 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.