Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen81W. Blackwood & Sons, 1857 |
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... eyes , while the patient mother pats his back with her soft hand , and glances with a sigh at the heap of large and small stockings lying unmended on the table . She was a lovely woman - Mrs . Amos Barton ; a large , fair , gentle Ma ...
... eyes , while the patient mother pats his back with her soft hand , and glances with a sigh at the heap of large and small stockings lying unmended on the table . She was a lovely woman - Mrs . Amos Barton ; a large , fair , gentle Ma ...
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... eyes ! You would not , perhaps , have anticipated that this bliss would fall to the share of pre- cisely such a man ... eye for her a man with sufficient income and abundant personal éclat . Besides , Amos was an affectionate husband ...
... eyes ! You would not , perhaps , have anticipated that this bliss would fall to the share of pre- cisely such a man ... eye for her a man with sufficient income and abundant personal éclat . Besides , Amos was an affectionate husband ...
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... eye are not sensitive to the difference between it and the finest wax ; it is only when you stick it in the silver ... eyes that seemed to look at emptiness . Next to him sat Poll Fodge - known to the magistracy of her country as Mary ...
... eye are not sensitive to the difference between it and the finest wax ; it is only when you stick it in the silver ... eyes that seemed to look at emptiness . Next to him sat Poll Fodge - known to the magistracy of her country as Mary ...
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... eyes twinkled with the visionary hope that the parson might be intending to replenish her box , at least mediately , through the present of a small copper . Ah , well you'll soon be going where there is no more snuff . You'll be in need ...
... eyes twinkled with the visionary hope that the parson might be intending to replenish her box , at least mediately , through the present of a small copper . Ah , well you'll soon be going where there is no more snuff . You'll be in need ...
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... eyes , and dark silken braided Mrs. Barton to the dining - room , hair . All these the Countess pos- he observed ... eye threatened " nut - crackers in advanced age . But by the light of fire and wax - candles that age seemed very far ...
... eyes , and dark silken braided Mrs. Barton to the dining - room , hair . All these the Countess pos- he observed ... eye threatened " nut - crackers in advanced age . But by the light of fire and wax - candles that age seemed very far ...
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Agnes Amos anemone appear Astrabad Atheling Barton beauty better British brother Bucharest called Captain Wybrow Caterina Charlie church colour dear Decastro door eyes face feel Gilfil girl Giurgevo give Government Hackit hand head hear heard heart Herat Hermann Schulz Hester honour Irenæus Khiva kind Lady Cheverel leave Little Dorrit live look Lord John Russell Lord Palmerston Lord Winterbourne Louis Marian marriage matter means ment mind Miss Anastasia Miss Assher Miss Rivers morning mother mountains nature ness never Nicaragua night Old Comical old lady once opinion passed peace Persian poor present pretty quoth Old Crab Rachel Rector round Russia scene seemed seen Shepperton side Sir Christopher Sir Edward Sugden stood sudden suppose sure tell thing thou thought Tickit tion turn urticating Whigs woman word young
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Página 264 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 271 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 271 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 516 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 267 - The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice ; hail-stones and coals of fire.
Página 230 - And, generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others
Página 271 - ... teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 362 - The triumph and the vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life...
Página 86 - As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat ; the rat began to gnaw the rope ; the rope began to hang the butcher ; the butcher began to kill the ox ; the ox began to drink the water ; the water began to quench the fire ; the fire began to burn the stick ; the stick began to beat the dog ; the dog began to bite the pig; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile ; and so the old woman got home that night.
Página 157 - The lady seemed to have made a conquest of him at the very outset," said Mr Ely. " I was immensely amused one night at Granby's, when he was telling us her story about her husband's adventures. He said, ' When she told me the tale, I felt I don't know how, — I felt it from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet.