Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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... hundred and eleven of the volume I have given you . " I was travelling in a first - class carriage with a very corpulent man for my companion , upwards of sixty years of age , formerly an officer of rank in the Prussian army . The train ...
... hundred and eleven of the volume I have given you . " I was travelling in a first - class carriage with a very corpulent man for my companion , upwards of sixty years of age , formerly an officer of rank in the Prussian army . The train ...
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... hundred centimes placed in a row would give the length of a metre ; or used as a weight , they would give a hectogram , or tenth of a kilogram . Hence every centime forms at the same time a coin , a measure , and a weight . We must not ...
... hundred centimes placed in a row would give the length of a metre ; or used as a weight , they would give a hectogram , or tenth of a kilogram . Hence every centime forms at the same time a coin , a measure , and a weight . We must not ...
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... its poor , has made no general appeal , and received no public aid , with the exception of three hundred and fifty pounds from the Mansion House Committee . Each visitor , on application , is furnished with an 28 CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL .
... its poor , has made no general appeal , and received no public aid , with the exception of three hundred and fifty pounds from the Mansion House Committee . Each visitor , on application , is furnished with an 28 CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL .
Σελίδα 47
... hundred guns . The boats lost no time in boarding . The forecastle was taken possession of without much resistance ; the quarter - deck disputed the point a quarter of an hour amidst a dreadful carnage . The main - deck held out much ...
... hundred guns . The boats lost no time in boarding . The forecastle was taken possession of without much resistance ; the quarter - deck disputed the point a quarter of an hour amidst a dreadful carnage . The main - deck held out much ...
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... hundred and sixty pounds of coal sufficed to effect all the baking and boiling of meat , stewing of soup , steaming of potatoes , and boiling of water for coffee and tea for five hundred men ; the provisions , if equally divided among ...
... hundred and sixty pounds of coal sufficed to effect all the baking and boiling of meat , stewing of soup , steaming of potatoes , and boiling of water for coffee and tea for five hundred men ; the provisions , if equally divided among ...
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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...