Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Volumes 17-18W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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... least a very honest one . Willie was by profes- sion an itinerant fiddler . He had the misfortune at an early age to lose his eyesight by the small - pox ; and as this calamity , aggravated as it was by poverty , precluded him from ...
... least a very honest one . Willie was by profes- sion an itinerant fiddler . He had the misfortune at an early age to lose his eyesight by the small - pox ; and as this calamity , aggravated as it was by poverty , precluded him from ...
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... least o ' fifteen pence . ' ' It's a lie , gentlemen - it's a barefaced lie , ' shouted Jamie in great wrath , and as breathless as his antagonist ; ' it's him that has cheated me . He got the half - croon . ' ' What half - crown ...
... least o ' fifteen pence . ' ' It's a lie , gentlemen - it's a barefaced lie , ' shouted Jamie in great wrath , and as breathless as his antagonist ; ' it's him that has cheated me . He got the half - croon . ' ' What half - crown ...
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... least notice of their gambols . At other times , she would seat herself in the middle of the cage , and begin to smooth her fur , and pur with great gentleness and satisfaction ; the birds would sometimes even settle on her back , or ...
... least notice of their gambols . At other times , she would seat herself in the middle of the cage , and begin to smooth her fur , and pur with great gentleness and satisfaction ; the birds would sometimes even settle on her back , or ...
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... least degree terrified at the noise which they had created . At a third signal , a few of the little warriors fell over on their sides , stretched out their stiffened limbs , and counter- feited death ; while others flew off limping and ...
... least degree terrified at the noise which they had created . At a third signal , a few of the little warriors fell over on their sides , stretched out their stiffened limbs , and counter- feited death ; while others flew off limping and ...
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... least change of voice or countenance ; but , on returning the book to Petrarch , confessed that it was an affecting story . I should have wept , ' he added , like the Paduan , had I thought the story true ; but the whole is a manifest ...
... least change of voice or countenance ; but , on returning the book to Petrarch , confessed that it was an affecting story . I should have wept , ' he added , like the Paduan , had I thought the story true ; but the whole is a manifest ...
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Page 135 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case, Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And,...
Page 135 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 74 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 50 - They were frequently on the raft during the day, and were seen through the chinks by Colter, who was congratulating himself on his escape, until the idea arose that they might set the raft on fire. In horrible suspense he remained until night, when hearing no more of the Indians, he dived from under the raft, and swam silently down the river to a considerable distance, when he landed and travelled all night.
Page 135 - Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, The forms in which He sprinkles all the earth.
Page 48 - ... their traps at night, and took them up early in the morning, remaining concealed during the day. They were examining their traps early one morning, in a creek about six miles from that branch of the Missouri called Jefferson's Fork, and were ascending in a canoe, when they suddenly heard a great noise, resembling the trampling of animals ; but they could not ascertain the fact, as the high perpendicular banks on each side of the river impeded their view. Colter immediately pronounced it to be...
Page 39 - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene.
Page 143 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods you mountain's sultry brow? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 39 - The rivulet Sends forth glad sounds, and tripping o'er its bed Of pebbly sands, or leaping down the rocks, Seems, with continuous laughter, to rejoice In its own being.
Page 50 - ... The foremost of the Indians, on arriving at the place, stopped till others came up to join them, when they set up a hideous yell. Every moment of this time was improved by Colter, who, although fainting and exhausted, succeeded in gaining the skirting of the cotton wood trees, on the borders of the fork, through which he ran, and plunged into the river.