Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64William Blackwood, 1848 - England |
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... took up their respective posi- tions at either end of a space marked for the purpose , at forty paces from each other . They were both armed with heavy rifles , and had the usual hunting - pouches , containing ammu- nition , hanging ...
... took up their respective posi- tions at either end of a space marked for the purpose , at forty paces from each other . They were both armed with heavy rifles , and had the usual hunting - pouches , containing ammu- nition , hanging ...
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... took the rough edge off their keen appetites . Although already in the buffalo range , no traces of these animals had yet been seen ; and as the country afforded but little game , and the party did not care to halt and lose time in ...
... took the rough edge off their keen appetites . Although already in the buffalo range , no traces of these animals had yet been seen ; and as the country afforded but little game , and the party did not care to halt and lose time in ...
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... took wing , and , flapping on the water , flew a short distance down the stream and once more settled on it . " Injuns ? " he asked ; " where are they ? " " Whar ? " repeated old Luke , striking the flint of his rifle , and open- ing ...
... took wing , and , flapping on the water , flew a short distance down the stream and once more settled on it . " Injuns ? " he asked ; " where are they ? " " Whar ? " repeated old Luke , striking the flint of his rifle , and open- ing ...
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... took the old race of the Celts , Cimry , or Cimme- rians . He compared the Celt who , as in Wales , the Scotch Highlands , in Bretagne , and in uncomprehended Ireland , retains his old characteris- tics and purity of breed , with the ...
... took the old race of the Celts , Cimry , or Cimme- rians . He compared the Celt who , as in Wales , the Scotch Highlands , in Bretagne , and in uncomprehended Ireland , retains his old characteris- tics and purity of breed , with the ...
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... took off a white nap- less hat , which he wiped with great care and affection with the sleeve of his right arm , a profusion of stiff curls instantly betrayed the art of man . Like my landlord's ale , in that wig there was no mistake ...
... took off a white nap- less hat , which he wiped with great care and affection with the sleeve of his right arm , a profusion of stiff curls instantly betrayed the art of man . Like my landlord's ale , in that wig there was no mistake ...
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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.