Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Band 7W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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afterwards Andryane appeared arms ataman Augustus Auquier Baltazara Baron Tomlinson beautiful boat body brooch called Caper captain carbonic acid cause Cazalla colonel Confalonieri Corsica Corstorphine Cossacks Count Confalonieri cried croupiers death Don Cossacks door Edinburgh Emperor exclaimed eyes father feelings feet Foote François French friends frigate gave gentlemen girl hand head hear heard honour hour husband immediately Indian king lady larvæ length lived look Lord Forrester magician Maria Mary Michaud mind Mirabel moon Moredun morning never night Nimmo occasion officers Parker party passed person Petra Pierre Michaud Platof poor precentor present prisoners Queen Matilda remarkable replied returned Richard Parker Rivar rocks scene Scipio Scotland seemed seen servant shew side smuggler soon story Struensee taken tell theatre thought took town valley vessel voice whole wife witness woman words young
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Seite 103 - HAIL, beauteous stranger of the wood! Attendant on the spring; Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat, And woods thy welcome sing. Soon as the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear: Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year ? Delightful visitant! with thce I hail the time of flowers,
Seite 59 - with the following inscription:—' Near this place is interred Theodore, king of Corsica, who died in this parish, December 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, by the benefit of the act of insolvency; in consequence of which, he registered his kingdom of Corsica for
Seite 59 - The grave, great teacher ! to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings; But Theodore this moral learnt, ere dead : Fate poured its lesson on his living head, Bestowed a kingdom, and denied him bread.
Seite 14 - more striking than it had been without it, since Lord Nelson generally had his empty sleeve attached to the breast of his coat. But it was the right arm that he had lost. Without saying that I suspected the boy had made a mistake, I asked the magician whether the objects appeared in the ink as if
Seite 15 - by an almost constant headache ; and that of the foot or leg, by a stiff knee, caused by a fall from a horse in hunting. I am assured,' continues Mr Lane, 'that on this occasion the boy described accurately each person and thing that was called for; and I might add several other cases,
Seite 174 - treason and convenience : He spent his time here in a mist, A Papist, yet a Calvinist. His prince's nearest joy and grief He had, yet wanted all relief; The prop and ruin of the state, The people's violent love and hate. One in the extremes loved and
Seite 179 - hangs from his shoulders, and is girt round his waist with a red sash, in which he bestows his pistols, knife, and the stem of his Indian pipe— preparations either for peace or war. His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally of buckskin, ornamented
Seite 177 - who lead a life of more continued exertion, peril, and excitement, and who are more enamoured of their occupations, than the free trappers of the west. No toil, no danger, no privation, can turn the trapper from his pursuit. His passionate excitement at times resembles a mania. In vain may the most vigilant and cruel savages beset his path
Seite 178 - and never before trodden by white man, for springs and lakes unknown to his comrades, and where he may meet with his favourite game. Such is the mountaineer, the hardy trapper of the west; and such, as we have slightly sketched it, is the wild
Seite 14 - with his hand placed to his head, wearing spectacles, and with one foot on the ground, and the other raised behind him, as if he were stepping down from a seat. The description was exactly true in every respect; the peculiar position of the hand was caused by an almost