Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 134William Blackwood, 1883 - England |
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... road . Margrave was no longer young , and not many illusions were left to him . He knew that the difference in his fortunes might make all the difference in the world to his daughter's . It had been under- stood on all sides that there ...
... road . Margrave was no longer young , and not many illusions were left to him . He knew that the difference in his fortunes might make all the difference in the world to his daughter's . It had been under- stood on all sides that there ...
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... road , and he had ample leisure afterwards to wish that he had taken any road but that . These had been the results of Lord Splint's observations of mankind ; and they did not inspire him with any ex- travagant eagerness to rush into ...
... road , and he had ample leisure afterwards to wish that he had taken any road but that . These had been the results of Lord Splint's observations of mankind ; and they did not inspire him with any ex- travagant eagerness to rush into ...
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... road against him and the faithful Lelius . They are ferried across it , nevertheless , by the ever- ready Malagigi ; who has provided , moreover , a strong horse for the one , and a fresh suit of armour for the other . Galloping on ...
... road against him and the faithful Lelius . They are ferried across it , nevertheless , by the ever- ready Malagigi ; who has provided , moreover , a strong horse for the one , and a fresh suit of armour for the other . Galloping on ...
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... road , through plains of tilth stuck here and there with apple - trees , till I reached Gaillon . There seeing some toler- ably road - worthy looking vehicles standing outside a stable , I ordered one to be got ready at once and to ...
... road , through plains of tilth stuck here and there with apple - trees , till I reached Gaillon . There seeing some toler- ably road - worthy looking vehicles standing outside a stable , I ordered one to be got ready at once and to ...
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... road at last . Alas for our credulity ! On perusing the " favourable terms , ' we find them of so com- plicated a nature as Lord Bury has shown , indeed , in a former quotation that we at once " gave it up . " Is it any wonder that raw ...
... road at last . Alas for our credulity ! On perusing the " favourable terms , ' we find them of so com- plicated a nature as Lord Bury has shown , indeed , in a former quotation that we at once " gave it up . " Is it any wonder that raw ...
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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.