Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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... less than ninety thousand vertical movements in a railway - carriage between Manchester and London . The tendency of each of these movements is to produce more or less motion in the twenty - four pieces of which the human spine is made ...
... less than ninety thousand vertical movements in a railway - carriage between Manchester and London . The tendency of each of these movements is to produce more or less motion in the twenty - four pieces of which the human spine is made ...
Σελίδα 18
... less enough ; it is a witness of clouds and water - carts ; but it is clean : we don't shudder when it sticks to us . Another continental fallacy is touching the polite- ness of foreigners . Tompkins converses after a fashion with the ...
... less enough ; it is a witness of clouds and water - carts ; but it is clean : we don't shudder when it sticks to us . Another continental fallacy is touching the polite- ness of foreigners . Tompkins converses after a fashion with the ...
Σελίδα 19
... less hold on the human race than the postboys who help to drive them . Even the very courier , who seems as detached a dot of humanity as any man , is earning his bread by flitting from place to place , and wearing out the signs of his ...
... less hold on the human race than the postboys who help to drive them . Even the very courier , who seems as detached a dot of humanity as any man , is earning his bread by flitting from place to place , and wearing out the signs of his ...
Σελίδα 24
... less amount , the renowned Hesperus had been closed for ever . To my query as to whether he had worked in it , the man replied in the affirmative . First time I ever stripped to go underground were when I was took on there . Father ...
... less amount , the renowned Hesperus had been closed for ever . To my query as to whether he had worked in it , the man replied in the affirmative . First time I ever stripped to go underground were when I was took on there . Father ...
Σελίδα 31
... less strokes than you really had , and that your adversary had made more- which was quite unnecessary in Jones's case , puir chap , for he was aye playing ' five mair ' at the varra least . Only , instead o saying ' Like as you lie ...
... less strokes than you really had , and that your adversary had made more- which was quite unnecessary in Jones's case , puir chap , for he was aye playing ' five mair ' at the varra least . Only , instead o saying ' Like as you lie ...
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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...