Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 134William Blackwood, 1883 - England |
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Page 405
... Lotta improves on the idea , and marries before she is eighteen . I have a daughter , she has a son : in every way my child has followed the lead given her , and indeed eclipsed her mother from first to last . " “ Fiddlesticks ...
... Lotta improves on the idea , and marries before she is eighteen . I have a daughter , she has a son : in every way my child has followed the lead given her , and indeed eclipsed her mother from first to last . " “ Fiddlesticks ...
Page 408
... LOTTA . " She speaks ,. their company as much as he could for the last thirty or forty hours , and had not , when compelled to endure it , maintained an unbroken , sullen , affected unconsciousness of their presence . That is past , and ...
... LOTTA . " She speaks ,. their company as much as he could for the last thirty or forty hours , and had not , when compelled to endure it , maintained an unbroken , sullen , affected unconsciousness of their presence . That is past , and ...
Page 415
... Lotta , who , with large round eyes and demure step , accompanied her mother on Lady Matilda's return to the Hall . Now it must be confessed that the one very very slight thorn in the sides of the three chiefly concerned in this ...
... Lotta , who , with large round eyes and demure step , accompanied her mother on Lady Matilda's return to the Hall . Now it must be confessed that the one very very slight thorn in the sides of the three chiefly concerned in this ...
Page 416
... Lotta being at the time ill with measles . " Nurse says there is no need for her to think about it , for as sure as the finger of the clock points to the hour , Lotta asks for her dose . Is it not nice , and — and thoughtful of the poor ...
... Lotta being at the time ill with measles . " Nurse says there is no need for her to think about it , for as sure as the finger of the clock points to the hour , Lotta asks for her dose . Is it not nice , and — and thoughtful of the poor ...
Page 417
... Lotta was all that any one could desire in the way of goodness and gentleness : and as for her little practical head , you might trust her with a whole list of articles to buy , and shops to go to , and she would not only for- get ...
... Lotta was all that any one could desire in the way of goodness and gentleness : and as for her little practical head , you might trust her with a whole list of articles to buy , and shops to go to , and she would not only for- get ...
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Page 255 - I carried a good deal of medicines, plasters, &c. thither ; but to my mortification I soon found that all my medical theories and study were of little use in practice. And then, finding that very few paid me for the medicines they had, and that I was far from being so successful as I could wish, I quite left off that business, and began to think of taking to the more sure one of drawing pictures again. For this purpose I went to Inverness, where I had eight months
Page 36 - Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust; Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast: — That is a doubtful tale from faery land, Hard for the non-elect to understand.
Page 732 - That the offences mentioned in the said report were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited character: and (d.) That in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt or illegal practice on the part of such candidate and of his agents...
Page 599 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the I .n ii ii.
Page 581 - For weeks, for months, if I remember rightly, from year to year, I would carry on the same tale, binding myself down to certain laws, to certain proportions, and proprieties, and unities. Nothing impossible was ever introduced, nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was, of course, my own hero. Such is a necessity of castle-building. But I never became a king, or a duke— much less, when my height and personal appearance were fixed, could...
Page 729 - ... corruptly influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at the election, or on account of such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be guilty of treating.
Page 257 - This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so much pleased with it, that he had it engraved. It sold very well, and Ferguson was induced once more to return to
Page 579 - The doctor's vials and the ink-bottle held equal places in my mother's rooms. I have written many novels under many circumstances ; but I doubt much whether I could write one when my whole heart was by the bedside of a dying son.
Page 219 - A more theatrical sight I never saw. The king, a good-looking, well-figured, tall young man of twenty-five, was sitting on a red blanket spread upon a square platform of royal grass, encased in tiger-grass reeds, scrupulously well dressed in a new mbugu.
Page 252 - I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands.