Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122William Blackwood, 1877 - England |
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... attack us . as " From his position he could not cross the valley in any other way than between our two fortified posi- tions above described . Such being the situation , Ratib Pasha was advised to leave the impregnable Fort Gura , with ...
... attack us . as " From his position he could not cross the valley in any other way than between our two fortified posi- tions above described . Such being the situation , Ratib Pasha was advised to leave the impregnable Fort Gura , with ...
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... attack us ; for his people , who had suffered severely on the 7th , and with in- sufficient supplies of food and water , were , we learned , becoming almost mutinous , and crying out to be led at once to the attack . " So with a force ...
... attack us ; for his people , who had suffered severely on the 7th , and with in- sufficient supplies of food and water , were , we learned , becoming almost mutinous , and crying out to be led at once to the attack . " So with a force ...
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... attack or retreat , their movements are far more rapid than those of a regular army , and they fight to death , neither asking nor expecting quarter . 66 Shortly after , without further fighting , King John sued for peace , and no ...
... attack or retreat , their movements are far more rapid than those of a regular army , and they fight to death , neither asking nor expecting quarter . 66 Shortly after , without further fighting , King John sued for peace , and no ...
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... attack . " If you don't tell us , we shall imagine it worse than it was , " cried they . She would not tell them , and accordingly they proceeded to im- agine . " So that is your winter's work , is it ? " concluded Miss Jermyn , at ...
... attack . " If you don't tell us , we shall imagine it worse than it was , " cried they . She would not tell them , and accordingly they proceeded to im- agine . " So that is your winter's work , is it ? " concluded Miss Jermyn , at ...
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... attacked as her representatives at foreign Courts throughout the world . It must be owned that the diplo matic ... attacks in silence . It is contrary to all the rules of the service for him to seek to vindicate his conduct through the ...
... attacked as her representatives at foreign Courts throughout the world . It must be owned that the diplo matic ... attacks in silence . It is contrary to all the rules of the service for him to seek to vindicate his conduct through the ...
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Page 416 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 737 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
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Page 414 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Page 416 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 737 - Midas turned all things to gold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye; and by a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart.
Page 737 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night...