Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Pagina 1
... stood in my pyjamas outside my cabin door and eyed that oven - like interior with loathing . Its steel walls blazed raw - white in the glare of the unshaded electrics , and I knew the engine - room bulk- head beside my bunk was hot ...
... stood in my pyjamas outside my cabin door and eyed that oven - like interior with loathing . Its steel walls blazed raw - white in the glare of the unshaded electrics , and I knew the engine - room bulk- head beside my bunk was hot ...
Pagina 5
... stood there looking as fierce and tough as he knew how , and every now and again he'd touch up any boy that showed signs of jibbing with his sjam- bok . And a sjambok's a nasty thing to get hit with . It's a strip of dried rhino hide ...
... stood there looking as fierce and tough as he knew how , and every now and again he'd touch up any boy that showed signs of jibbing with his sjam- bok . And a sjambok's a nasty thing to get hit with . It's a strip of dried rhino hide ...
Pagina 12
... stood there looking at each other and feeling sheepish -at least , I know I did . I think it struck both of us that a grown man can make a ter- rible ass of himself if he isn't careful . " Well , John , ' says I at last , it may be very ...
... stood there looking at each other and feeling sheepish -at least , I know I did . I think it struck both of us that a grown man can make a ter- rible ass of himself if he isn't careful . " Well , John , ' says I at last , it may be very ...
Pagina 14
... stood there behind the windlass and planned things out . I was hoping to goodness all the while that no one would see us , because if one single soul aboard the ship ever got to know I was hand and glove with the man like that , his ...
... stood there behind the windlass and planned things out . I was hoping to goodness all the while that no one would see us , because if one single soul aboard the ship ever got to know I was hand and glove with the man like that , his ...
Pagina 19
... stood directly between us . Once during the action I received a fearful blow across my body , caused by a poor fellow being blown into smithereens - by my side . Passing aft to my quarters I stepped over a prostrate seaman who was ...
... stood directly between us . Once during the action I received a fearful blow across my body , caused by a poor fellow being blown into smithereens - by my side . Passing aft to my quarters I stepped over a prostrate seaman who was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 398 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
Pagina 684 - there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply are long ago
Pagina 679 - is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.'
Pagina 680 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
Pagina 677 - will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues.
Pagina 681 - had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Pagina 677 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the
Pagina 683 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Pagina 576 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Pagina 568 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.