Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen64William Blackwood, 1848 |
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... town is a tavern well known as the " Rocky Mountain House , " and here the trappers resort , drinking and fighting as long as their money lasts , which , as they are gene- rous and lavish as Jack Tars , is for a few days only . Such ...
... town is a tavern well known as the " Rocky Mountain House , " and here the trappers resort , drinking and fighting as long as their money lasts , which , as they are gene- rous and lavish as Jack Tars , is for a few days only . Such ...
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... town situated on the Missouri , several hundred miles above St. Louis , and within a short distance of the Indian trontier . Independence may be termed the " prairie port " of the western country . Here the caravans destined for Santa ...
... town situated on the Missouri , several hundred miles above St. Louis , and within a short distance of the Indian trontier . Independence may be termed the " prairie port " of the western country . Here the caravans destined for Santa ...
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... town with your father . You don't under- stand these things . I shall see the booksellers for him . I know how these gentlemen are to be dealt with . I shall prepare the literary circles for the appearance of the book . In short , it is ...
... town with your father . You don't under- stand these things . I shall see the booksellers for him . I know how these gentlemen are to be dealt with . I shall prepare the literary circles for the appearance of the book . In short , it is ...
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... town-- ' perused the traders , ' as the swan poetically remarks . Have you not , my lad , eh ? " Thus directly appealed to , the boy looked up with a smile of scorn on his lips . " Yes , I know what life is , and I say that life , like ...
... town-- ' perused the traders , ' as the swan poetically remarks . Have you not , my lad , eh ? " Thus directly appealed to , the boy looked up with a smile of scorn on his lips . " Yes , I know what life is , and I say that life , like ...
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... town at which I in- tended to rest for the night . The horn of a coach behind made me turn my head , and , as the vehicle passed me , I saw on the outside Mr. Peacock , still struggling with a cigar it could scarcely be the same — and ...
... town at which I in- tended to rest for the night . The horn of a coach behind made me turn my head , and , as the vehicle passed me , I saw on the outside Mr. Peacock , still struggling with a cigar it could scarcely be the same — and ...
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amongst animals appeared arms army Beaudesert Bonté British buffalo camp capital Celt character Chartist civilized colonies companions cried dear England English eyes face father favour fear feeling fire foreign France Franz French friends Germany give hand head heart honour horses hunters Indian Ireland Irish Killbuck King labour Lady Ellinor land less lived look Lord Lord Castlereagh Lord Hervey Lord John Russell Ludwig means ment mind Mormons mountain nature ness never night once Ostyaks Paris party passed person Pisistratus poet political poor present Prussia Rasinski republican revolution rifle round ruin savage scarcely scene seemed side sion Sir Robert Peel soon spirit tailzie tain thing Thor Hansen thought tion Tobolsk town trade trappers Trevanion turned Uncle Jack Whigs whilst whole words young
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Página 514 - 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.
Página 502 - With other ministrations thou, O Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child : Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets ; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy ; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Página 500 - 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...
Página 500 - Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.
Página 414 - 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.
Página 422 - Capital is kept in existence from age to age not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction: every part of it is used and destroyed, generally very soon after it is produced, but those who consume it are employed meanwhile in producing more.
Página 500 - 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, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain. He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
Página 414 - ... every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture.
Página 114 - They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom...
Página 10 - B. for life, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, remainder to the future sons of C.