The Saturday Magazine, Volume 18John William Parker, 1841 |
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Pagina 6
... plays while the water is flowing . The peninsula , of which we have before spoken , widens as it advances into the lake , and is terminated by two distinct promontories of rock ; on one of which stands a large Turkish mosque , its lofty ...
... plays while the water is flowing . The peninsula , of which we have before spoken , widens as it advances into the lake , and is terminated by two distinct promontories of rock ; on one of which stands a large Turkish mosque , its lofty ...
Pagina 7
... played by the Greeks . This game was played with white and black pebbles , and was invented by Palamedes , as appears by a line in the first book of Homer's Odyssey . The claim of the Romans is equally unfounded : a game , something ...
... played by the Greeks . This game was played with white and black pebbles , and was invented by Palamedes , as appears by a line in the first book of Homer's Odyssey . The claim of the Romans is equally unfounded : a game , something ...
Pagina 8
... played in Europe and Asia , was invented by a single effort of some great genius , and not com- pleted by gradual improvements . He informs us that no account of the game has hitherto been discovered in the classical writings of the ...
... played in Europe and Asia , was invented by a single effort of some great genius , and not com- pleted by gradual improvements . He informs us that no account of the game has hitherto been discovered in the classical writings of the ...
Pagina 20
... player , raising it with the finger and thumb , advanced this piece towards those of his opponent ; but though we are unable ... play much in the same manner as our own . The most impartial authorities are strongly inclined to favour the ...
... player , raising it with the finger and thumb , advanced this piece towards those of his opponent ; but though we are unable ... play much in the same manner as our own . The most impartial authorities are strongly inclined to favour the ...
Pagina 21
... play , and defile the hands and tongue which ought to be the mediators between man and the Deity ? Are you not aware that , by the canonical law , bishops who are dice- players are ordered to be suspended ? " He however , seeking an ...
... play , and defile the hands and tongue which ought to be the mediators between man and the Deity ? Are you not aware that , by the canonical law , bishops who are dice- players are ordered to be suspended ? " He however , seeking an ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 231 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.
Pagina 204 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Pagina 188 - ... secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life.
Pagina 188 - A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and particular way of life.
Pagina 237 - twixt anger, shame, and fear, Those for what's past, and this for what's too near, My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Pagina 32 - Remember all who love thee, All who are loved by thee, Pray too for those who hate thee, If any such there be. Then for thyself in meekness, A blessing humbly claim, And link with each petition, Thy great Redeemer's name.
Pagina 192 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Pagina 111 - And let us linger in this place, for an instant, to remark, that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the. wealthy and the proud to home, may be forged on earth ; but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth, are of the true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven.
Pagina 241 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook...
Pagina 241 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.