Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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Σελίδα 15
... close , at first slowly , but afterwards more rapidly , as they become more folded together , and in this closed condition the flower continues until the time of opening again returns . Most flowers open during the first hour after sun ...
... close , at first slowly , but afterwards more rapidly , as they become more folded together , and in this closed condition the flower continues until the time of opening again returns . Most flowers open during the first hour after sun ...
Σελίδα 17
... close - cropped Monsieur . Hurrah ! for home , after a summer away on the paper - sanded , flimsy - journaled , many - hatted , harness - roped , table - d'hôted continent . The run back was delicious . I had had some business to do ...
... close - cropped Monsieur . Hurrah ! for home , after a summer away on the paper - sanded , flimsy - journaled , many - hatted , harness - roped , table - d'hôted continent . The run back was delicious . I had had some business to do ...
Σελίδα 32
... close as to bar the egress even of the smallest fry . Before the net can be lowered , the boat must come to anchor . The net is then hauled through the water by means of a hawser , seventy fathoms long , in the hope that a shoal of ...
... close as to bar the egress even of the smallest fry . Before the net can be lowered , the boat must come to anchor . The net is then hauled through the water by means of a hawser , seventy fathoms long , in the hope that a shoal of ...
Σελίδα 46
... close of the war , they along the second - lieutenant , who called loudly for moor the vessel under the guns of the forts , pretend- mercy . They dragged him by the hair of his heading that , having quarrelled with their officers , they ...
... close of the war , they along the second - lieutenant , who called loudly for moor the vessel under the guns of the forts , pretend- mercy . They dragged him by the hair of his heading that , having quarrelled with their officers , they ...
Σελίδα 47
... close an atten- tion to his military duties . The Chinese army being always in full retreat , delay in his position was to the last degree dangerous . We came upon him sharpen- ing his sword amid a number of severed heads ( and tails ) ...
... close an atten- tion to his military duties . The Chinese army being always in full retreat , delay in his position was to the last degree dangerous . We came upon him sharpen- ing his sword amid a number of severed heads ( and tails ) ...
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Σελίδα 92 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!
Σελίδα 92 - Yet there is time!" At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past; And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last. With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Σελίδα 93 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace - all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech.
Σελίδα 93 - That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra' Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra
Σελίδα 92 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Σελίδα 94 - At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe...
Σελίδα 92 - The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at his sermon on the mount, Saint Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables . . . but I know Ye mark me not!
Σελίδα 93 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Σελίδα 93 - Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Σελίδα 92 - And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...