The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature, Fine Arts, Etc. ...Duncombe., 1829 |
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... wretch who dishonoured thee has slain thy brother . Eternal curses seize him ! ' 6 6 Nay , say not so , father , ' replied she gently , let us rather pray that he may see his errors and repent . ' Child ! ' said the stern Abudah ...
... wretch who dishonoured thee has slain thy brother . Eternal curses seize him ! ' 6 6 Nay , say not so , father , ' replied she gently , let us rather pray that he may see his errors and repent . ' Child ! ' said the stern Abudah ...
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... wretch as thou . Begone ! a steed awaits thee in the court - yard flee from the castle - but , when next we meet , beware ! ' Astonished at the generosity of . the old man , Sebastian , whose heart was too full to say a single word ...
... wretch as thou . Begone ! a steed awaits thee in the court - yard flee from the castle - but , when next we meet , beware ! ' Astonished at the generosity of . the old man , Sebastian , whose heart was too full to say a single word ...
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... wretch- edness seemed faithfully pourtrayed in her ghastly countenance - she flung herself upon her knees , and in a shrill voice of desperation , impre- cated the most direful curses on our head . ' If , ' says she , ' you call ...
... wretch- edness seemed faithfully pourtrayed in her ghastly countenance - she flung herself upon her knees , and in a shrill voice of desperation , impre- cated the most direful curses on our head . ' If , ' says she , ' you call ...
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... Egypt , or remained a wretched Pariah caste , had Moses never lived . In this con- dition he took them up , rescued them from captivity ; finding them county towns of note - and experi- ments made upon 52 THE PORTFOLIO .
... Egypt , or remained a wretched Pariah caste , had Moses never lived . In this con- dition he took them up , rescued them from captivity ; finding them county towns of note - and experi- ments made upon 52 THE PORTFOLIO .
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... wretched reflections that they consented to take in the ' Portfolio . ' - Well , I protest I am yet at a stand - still - for I have been rubbing my forehead and running my fin- gers through my late well - adjusted topknot until I have ...
... wretched reflections that they consented to take in the ' Portfolio . ' - Well , I protest I am yet at a stand - still - for I have been rubbing my forehead and running my fin- gers through my late well - adjusted topknot until I have ...
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Page 163 - ... of the more esteemed class ; and Burns, who delighted in the amusement their discourse afforded, seems to have looked forward with gloomy firmness to the possibility of himself becoming one day or other a member of their itinerant society. In his poetical works, it is alluded to so often, aa perhaps to indicate that he considered the consummation as not utterly impossible.
Page 65 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still and stirred not for all that.
Page 50 - Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine : and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Page 56 - The little of these vegetables that was used, was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders. Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.
Page 298 - All perishable ! like the electric fire, But strike the frame, and, as they strike, expire ; Incense too pure a bodied flame to bear, Its fragrance charms the sense, and blends with air.
Page 213 - I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack...
Page 158 - Passaic meanders through margins of green, So transparent its waters, its surface serene. He rived the green hills, the wild woods he laid low ; He taught the pure stream in rough channels to flow ; He rent the rude rock, the steep precipice gave, And hurled down the chasm the thundering wave.
Page 297 - Th' expressive glance — whose subtle comment draws Entranced attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music, scarce confess'd its own ; As light from...
Page 213 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively; the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Page 258 - I am to have my utmost wishes, command that, for the future, the Company of Cobblers shall take place of the Company of Shoemakers.