Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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Pagina 31
... never have stopped in Italy at all , but should have gone straight through from Brindisi to London , as I had at first intended . However , it is futile trying to trace things back to their first cause . Before I started on leave I had ...
... never have stopped in Italy at all , but should have gone straight through from Brindisi to London , as I had at first intended . However , it is futile trying to trace things back to their first cause . Before I started on leave I had ...
Pagina 44
... never have dashed forward as I did opening the breech of my rifle as I ran . I heard a warning shout from my cor- poral , a yell of fear from one of my servants , and at a sound of crashing in the grass , I turned half left to face a ...
... never have dashed forward as I did opening the breech of my rifle as I ran . I heard a warning shout from my cor- poral , a yell of fear from one of my servants , and at a sound of crashing in the grass , I turned half left to face a ...
Pagina 47
... never listened to such a moving tale before . He told of the " much but never enough renowned Earl of Errol , Constable of Scotland , how for the catholic faith he had been long in exile , and three divers times suffered im- prisonment ...
... never listened to such a moving tale before . He told of the " much but never enough renowned Earl of Errol , Constable of Scotland , how for the catholic faith he had been long in exile , and three divers times suffered im- prisonment ...
Pagina 51
... never mentioned him in her letters . The Laird of Craig had befriended them when they were left high and dry in Paris , and as he was on his way to Scotland he asked Blakhal to let him know the outcome of their journey , good or bad ...
... never mentioned him in her letters . The Laird of Craig had befriended them when they were left high and dry in Paris , and as he was on his way to Scotland he asked Blakhal to let him know the outcome of their journey , good or bad ...
Pagina 57
... never knew his name , had not seen him before , and never saw him again . This gentleman took him to Madame de la Flotte , dame d'atours to the Queen . The Queen was so interested in what Madame de la Flotte told her of his tale that ...
... never knew his name , had not seen him before , and never saw him again . This gentleman took him to Madame de la Flotte , dame d'atours to the Queen . The Queen was so interested in what Madame de la Flotte told her of his tale that ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 45 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him ? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines : for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Pagina 673 - Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Pagina 338 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Pagina 489 - Seamen in general that whatever you give them out of the common way — altho' it be ever so much for their good — it will not go down, and you will hear nothing but murmurings against the Man that first invented it; but the moment they see their superiors set a value upon it, it becomes the finest stuff in the world and the inventor an honest fellow.
Pagina 493 - Yards from the breakers, the same Sea that washed the sides of the Ship rose in a breaker prodigiously high the very next time it did rise so that between us and destruction was only a dismal Vally the breadth of one wave and even now no ground could be felt with 120 fathoms.
Pagina 845 - From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii...
Pagina 420 - ... refusal. To give way to the blackmailer's menaces enriches him, but it has long been proved by uniform experience that, although this may secure for the victim temporary peace, it is certain to lead to renewed molestation and higher demands after ever-shortening periods of amicable forbearance.
Pagina 421 - Either Germany is definitely aiming at a general political hegemony and maritime ascendency, threatening the independence of her neighbours and ultimately the existence of England; Or Germany, free from any such clear-cut ambition, and thinking for the present merely of using her legitimate position and influence as one of the leading Powers in the council of nations, is seeking to promote her foreign commerce, spread the benefits of German culture, extend the scope of her national energies, and...
Pagina 78 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Pagina 845 - Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm ; for, whatever harm was in some of them, was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it.