Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 73William Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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... French translation of the same work . He conse quently prohibits its republication in France without his sanction in writing . Harley , smiling ; " and tell Violante , if. " THERE is a hitch , " said Dick pithily , when Randal joined him ...
... French translation of the same work . He conse quently prohibits its republication in France without his sanction in writing . Harley , smiling ; " and tell Violante , if. " THERE is a hitch , " said Dick pithily , when Randal joined him ...
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... French King and his son , the Earl of Tankerville , Sir Jacques de Bombon , the Earls of Ponthieu and Eue , with many other noblemen , were then captured . The ancestor of this family was one of those knights who challenged the French ...
... French King and his son , the Earl of Tankerville , Sir Jacques de Bombon , the Earls of Ponthieu and Eue , with many other noblemen , were then captured . The ancestor of this family was one of those knights who challenged the French ...
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... French bed that fitted into an alcove at the end of the room , and was covered by a chintz curtain hanging from a pole that stuck out of the wall , in which nest she would chirp herself to sleep like any wren . Rosa had been delivering ...
... French bed that fitted into an alcove at the end of the room , and was covered by a chintz curtain hanging from a pole that stuck out of the wall , in which nest she would chirp herself to sleep like any wren . Rosa had been delivering ...
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... French Giant in the opposite caravan , who was re- presented as looking down from a great altitude on a wondering gen- tleman in a blue surtout and brass buttons , whose shirt - frill reached about the giant's knee , and who was ...
... French Giant in the opposite caravan , who was re- presented as looking down from a great altitude on a wondering gen- tleman in a blue surtout and brass buttons , whose shirt - frill reached about the giant's knee , and who was ...
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... French ( very French ) prints had been removed . The ex- tremely plain furniture of old Mr Dubbley's time was replaced by the productions of a London upholsterer . Some books , too rare objects at Monkstone - in very grand bindings ...
... French ( very French ) prints had been removed . The ex- tremely plain furniture of old Mr Dubbley's time was replaced by the productions of a London upholsterer . Some books , too rare objects at Monkstone - in very grand bindings ...
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Page 137 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 402 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 409 - ... to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me.
Page 393 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 10 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 143 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands. That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i...
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Page 365 - I told my opponents the only man who could "put me down" was myself, and I trusted I should do nothing to bring about that result. If thrust out of my own pulpit, I made up my mind to lecture from city to city, from town to town, from village to village, nay...
Page 109 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 109 - And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — tt approaches.