Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64William Blackwood, 1848 - England |
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... party . It was two days before they came up ; but the day after , fourteen in number , they started for the moun- tains , striking a trail which follows the " Big Blue " in its course through the prairies , which , as they advance to ...
... party . It was two days before they came up ; but the day after , fourteen in number , they started for the moun- tains , striking a trail which follows the " Big Blue " in its course through the prairies , which , as they advance to ...
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... party , when he saw on one side the trail , looming in the refracted glare which mirages the plains , three large dark objects without shape or form , which rose and fell in the exaggerated light like ships at sea . Doubting what it ...
... party , when he saw on one side the trail , looming in the refracted glare which mirages the plains , three large dark objects without shape or form , which rose and fell in the exaggerated light like ships at sea . Doubting what it ...
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... party crossed the south fork about ten miles from its juncture with the main stream , and then , passing the prairie , struck the north fork a day's travel from the other . At the mouth of an ash - timbered creek they came upon Indian ...
... party crossed the south fork about ten miles from its juncture with the main stream , and then , passing the prairie , struck the north fork a day's travel from the other . At the mouth of an ash - timbered creek they came upon Indian ...
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... party , and , scattering , advanced under cover of the sage bushes which dotted the bottom , to about two hundred yards of the whites . Then a chief advanced before the rest , and made the sign for a talk with the Long - knives , which ...
... party , and , scattering , advanced under cover of the sage bushes which dotted the bottom , to about two hundred yards of the whites . Then a chief advanced before the rest , and made the sign for a talk with the Long - knives , which ...
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... party broke up ; many , find- ing the alcohol of the traders an im- pediment to their further progress , re- mained some time in the vicinity , while La Bonté , Luke , and a trapper named Marcelline , started in a few days to the ...
... party broke up ; many , find- ing the alcohol of the traders an im- pediment to their further progress , re- mained some time in the vicinity , while La Bonté , Luke , and a trapper named Marcelline , started in a few days to the ...
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Page 491 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 504 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 490 - The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 502 - And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 490 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 494 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 490 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 186 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 408 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 406 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.