The Metropolitan, Volumen17James Cochrane, 1836 |
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... heard it affirmed that they were to take all the children of Charles alive or dead . To return like an arrow to his village , and inform the chief of our partisans , to arm all who had a gun or a poniard , and to traverse with hasty ...
... heard it affirmed that they were to take all the children of Charles alive or dead . To return like an arrow to his village , and inform the chief of our partisans , to arm all who had a gun or a poniard , and to traverse with hasty ...
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... heard proceed from lips which I revered . Furious cries against Paoli had replied to my impassioned eloquence . They had associated with me , to accompany me to Paris , a set of men , whose re- pulsive aspect , savage language , and the ...
... heard proceed from lips which I revered . Furious cries against Paoli had replied to my impassioned eloquence . They had associated with me , to accompany me to Paris , a set of men , whose re- pulsive aspect , savage language , and the ...
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... heard of ghosts ashore , and sometimes on board of a ship , " 1 Continued from vol . xvi . page 352 . but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly ( 21 )
... heard of ghosts ashore , and sometimes on board of a ship , " 1 Continued from vol . xvi . page 352 . but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly ( 21 )
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but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly - boat , " said Coble , spitting under the gun . " ' Specially when there were hardly room for the corporal , " added Spurey . " Yes , " observed Short . " Well , we shall know something about it ...
but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly - boat , " said Coble , spitting under the gun . " ' Specially when there were hardly room for the corporal , " added Spurey . " Yes , " observed Short . " Well , we shall know something about it ...
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... heard of any one knocking out the devil's eye , or injuring him in any way ? -No ; because he have power by sea and by land : but this here be only a water - devil , and he may be killed on dry land . Now , that's just my opinion , and ...
... heard of any one knocking out the devil's eye , or injuring him in any way ? -No ; because he have power by sea and by land : but this here be only a water - devil , and he may be killed on dry land . Now , that's just my opinion , and ...
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Página 113 - So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep : To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will...
Página 51 - ... the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes"; he who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a malady, who has had his hopes blighted and his youth staggered by the...
Página 365 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Página 88 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 128 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 60 - Egeria was totally different from any other woman I had ever seen, either in Italy or England. She did not dazzle, she subdued me. Other women might be more commanding, more versatile, more acute ; but I never saw one so exquisitely feminine.
Página 60 - Her voice was a sad, sweet melody, and her spirits reminded me of an old poet's description of the orange tree, with its " Golden lamps hid in a night of green ;" or of those Spanish gardens where the pomegranate grows beside the cypress. Her gladness was like a burst of sun-light ; and if, in her depression, she resembled night, it was night bearing her stars.
Página 372 - And near the stroke of twelve, she rose and sate herself down in a great chair with arms, and presently fetching a strong breathing or two, immediately expired, and was so suddenly cold, as was much wondered at by the physician .and surgeon. She died at Waltham in Essex, three miles from Chelmsford, and the letter was sent to Sir Charles...
Página 61 - They had an album with them ; absolutely an album ! You had scarcely left me to my fate — oh ! how you laughed the moment you were set free ! — when the little woman with the inquisitorial eyes informed me that the tall woman with the superior understanding — Heaven save the mark ! — was ambitious of possessing my autograph — and out ' leaped in lightning forth
Página 67 - Hemans", said he to me very gravely, "how necessary it is occasionally for every lady to see things weighed herself." Poveretta me! I looked as good as I could, and, happily for me, the poetic eyes are not very clearsighted, so that I believe no suspicion derogatory to my notability of character has yet flashed upon the mighty master's...