Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Band 4,Ausgabe 31 -Band 6,Ausgabe 59William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1845 |
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... showed amidst his misfortunes the greatness of his strength and courage . According to the lively account given by Sir Walter Scott of Bruce's movements after this defeat- " He directed his men to retreat through a narrow pass , and ...
... showed amidst his misfortunes the greatness of his strength and courage . According to the lively account given by Sir Walter Scott of Bruce's movements after this defeat- " He directed his men to retreat through a narrow pass , and ...
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... showed a dis- position to question the right of two hundred strangers to come and quarter so unceremoniously in their island ; but a little intercourse conciliated them ; and through the winter of 1306-7 the fugitive king and his men ...
... showed a dis- position to question the right of two hundred strangers to come and quarter so unceremoniously in their island ; but a little intercourse conciliated them ; and through the winter of 1306-7 the fugitive king and his men ...
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... showed , more than two seconds before Bradford's entering the unfortunate gentleman's chamber . The world owes this information to remorse of conscience on the part of the footman ( eighteen months after the execution of Bradford ) when ...
... showed , more than two seconds before Bradford's entering the unfortunate gentleman's chamber . The world owes this information to remorse of conscience on the part of the footman ( eighteen months after the execution of Bradford ) when ...
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... showed him his writing . He told me " it did not signify anything , and that I should find no one of the sailors would obey a boy incapable to steer a vessel . It would be a fine_thing , " added he , for my mate to become my captain ...
... showed him his writing . He told me " it did not signify anything , and that I should find no one of the sailors would obey a boy incapable to steer a vessel . It would be a fine_thing , " added he , for my mate to become my captain ...
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... have rung the thunder away , " said some of the old ones . Oswald showed them the error of their notion , and taught them the cause of thunder , and the use of the lightning conductor . He fitted one 21 THE GOLDMAKERS ' VILLAGE .
... have rung the thunder away , " said some of the old ones . Oswald showed them the error of their notion , and taught them the cause of thunder , and the use of the lightning conductor . He fitted one 21 THE GOLDMAKERS ' VILLAGE .
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Seite 28 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. " Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Seite 27 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Seite 5 - gan stir, With a short uneasy motion — Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound : It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Seite 8 - Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Seite 4 - Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Seite 8 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook...
Seite 2 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and Is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there Is a silent Joy at their arrival.
Seite 29 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe : For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Seite 28 - He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Seite 31 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.