Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 13J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1874 |
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Page 434 - Their stops and chords was seen ; his volant touch, Instinct through all proportions low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
Page 314 - Twas well ! The fret and misery of our northern towns, In this her life's last day, our poor, our pain, Our jangle of false wits, our climate's frowns, Do for this radiant...
Page 639 - Cincinnatus, and being resolved to follow his Example by returning to their Citizenship, they think they may with Propriety denominate themselves The Society of the Cincinnati.
Page 181 - I saw anything, a dissevered hand and arm stretched towards me. Hand and arm were apparently those of a female : they bore a livid and sodden appearance ; and directly fronting me, where the body ought to have been, there was only blank, transparent space, through which I could see the dim forms of the objects beyond. I was fearfully startled...
Page 97 - The standard on the braes o' Mar, Is up and streaming rarely ! The gathering pipe on Lochnagar, Is sounding lang and clearly ! The llighlandmen, from hill and glen, In martial hue, with bonnets blue, Wi' belted plaids, and burnished blades, Are coming late and early!
Page 97 - And the song that she sung Was of sorrow and cumber. " Sleep sound, my sweet babe, There is nought to alarm thee ; The sons of the valley No power have to harm thee. I'll sing thee to rest In the balloch untrodden, With a coronach sad For the slain of Culloden.
Page 645 - Americans displayed quite as much ability as any continental power ; while if the organization and discipline of their improvised troops were inferior, the actual fighting was in fact more stubborn for no European forces have experienced the amount of resistance in combat which North and South opposed to each other. Neither was the frequently indecisive result of the great battles fought in America any proof that they formed exceptions to the ordinary rules of military science. These actions were...
Page 177 - Malcolm, my son," said the old man, " tat you would be learnin' to speak your own lancuach. It is all fery well for ta Sassenach (Saxon, ie, non-Celtic) podies to read ta Piple in English, for it will be pleasing ta Maker not to make tern cawpable of ta Gaelic, no more tan monkeys ; but for all tat it's not ta vord of God.
Page 193 - The world took him at his word, for he was bold, acute, and voluble; with no thought, but a good deal of desultory information; and though destitute of all imagination and noble sentiment, was blessed with a vigorous mendacious fancy, fruitful in small expedients, and never happier than when devising shifts for great men's scrapes.
Page 698 - The stimulus of conversation suspends the terror that haunts my mind; but when I am alone, the horrors I have suffered from laudanum, the degradation, the blighted utility, almost overwhelm me.