The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1846 |
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... step a little lower than the plateau above . From it I looked through a labyrinth of acacia and hiccory , on to the mighty cataract itself , as it poured its everflowing emerald flood into the abyss beneath . But the influence of the ...
... step a little lower than the plateau above . From it I looked through a labyrinth of acacia and hiccory , on to the mighty cataract itself , as it poured its everflowing emerald flood into the abyss beneath . But the influence of the ...
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... step , and determined to retrace it — and , as it ge- nerally so happens , that a determined man is sure to succeed in any un- dertaking - so ingenuity at once came to his assistance . He would per- suade the Spanish soldiers on guard ...
... step , and determined to retrace it — and , as it ge- nerally so happens , that a determined man is sure to succeed in any un- dertaking - so ingenuity at once came to his assistance . He would per- suade the Spanish soldiers on guard ...
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... steps was placed against the cart ; up this the prisoner walked ( his arms tied behind . him ) with the coolest composure , and having made his confession to a priest , the hangman adjusted a cord round his neck which proved too short ...
... steps was placed against the cart ; up this the prisoner walked ( his arms tied behind . him ) with the coolest composure , and having made his confession to a priest , the hangman adjusted a cord round his neck which proved too short ...
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... step which she took . Her chemise was made of deer - skin , embroidered with porcupines ' quills , and dyed mooses ' hair , fastened by a series of silver plates , circular , and diminishing in size from the top . She also wore large ...
... step which she took . Her chemise was made of deer - skin , embroidered with porcupines ' quills , and dyed mooses ' hair , fastened by a series of silver plates , circular , and diminishing in size from the top . She also wore large ...
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... steps in deep meditation , and then turned into the house , saying to himself , " This must be inquired into instantly . " He found Sir John Slingsby in the luncheon - room , reading the newspaper , but nobody else , for the ladies had ...
... steps in deep meditation , and then turned into the house , saying to himself , " This must be inquired into instantly . " He found Sir John Slingsby in the luncheon - room , reading the newspaper , but nobody else , for the ladies had ...
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Seite 40 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale :— Look back! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract...
Seite 134 - Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it...
Seite 56 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Seite 40 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Seite 163 - His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, That grew the more by reaping: His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they liv'd in: In his livery Walk'd crowns, and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Seite 56 - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Seite 56 - ... but man ; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the...
Seite 56 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Seite 498 - CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS : A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome. Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains. By CHARLES MAITLAND.
Seite 56 - ... glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the little localities of change of seasons ; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold, and from thence descend at will to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.