Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and ArtW.& R. Chambers, 1863 |
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... poor . I came in by gas - light , and saw them about the public - houses . There was a staleness of face , and air of soiled limp finery about them , which I did not see abroad . No doubt , the beggars of the continent are often ...
... poor . I came in by gas - light , and saw them about the public - houses . There was a staleness of face , and air of soiled limp finery about them , which I did not see abroad . No doubt , the beggars of the continent are often ...
Σελίδα 27
... poor long enough , and the mountain is full of wealth . But it's guarded ! guarded ! ' So saying , he dashed down the torch , sprang upon me , and dragged me , a mere child in his muscular hands , to the brink of the yawning abyss ...
... poor long enough , and the mountain is full of wealth . But it's guarded ! guarded ! ' So saying , he dashed down the torch , sprang upon me , and dragged me , a mere child in his muscular hands , to the brink of the yawning abyss ...
Σελίδα 28
... poor wretch ! ' Such was the final epitaph of my terrible guide . His body was never found . HOW WE HELP OUR HANDS AT BLEABOROUGH . No town in all Lancashire is perhaps so little affected by the existing distress as Bleaborough . Its ...
... poor wretch ! ' Such was the final epitaph of my terrible guide . His body was never found . HOW WE HELP OUR HANDS AT BLEABOROUGH . No town in all Lancashire is perhaps so little affected by the existing distress as Bleaborough . Its ...
Σελίδα 29
... poor , we may be tidy and neat ; so she and her children tidied up the rooms as neatly as they could , and put everything in order . By and by , the relieving- officer arrived , and just opened the door of the cottage ; the poor woman ...
... poor , we may be tidy and neat ; so she and her children tidied up the rooms as neatly as they could , and put everything in order . By and by , the relieving- officer arrived , and just opened the door of the cottage ; the poor woman ...
Σελίδα 75
... poor boy , I was expecting every hour to join him , and painful as it was , it seemed as if we were only separated for a little while . Now , my thoughts were busy with home . What would my wife say when she saw me like one risen from ...
... poor boy , I was expecting every hour to join him , and painful as it was , it seemed as if we were only separated for a little while . Now , my thoughts were busy with home . What would my wife say when she saw me like one risen from ...
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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...