Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen18William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1851 |
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... look like great economy in the Prussian system . But this is very far from being the whole cost of it to the country , as is thus admirably explained by Mr. Laing : - " The finan- cial resources of every country depend upon the ...
... look like great economy in the Prussian system . But this is very far from being the whole cost of it to the country , as is thus admirably explained by Mr. Laing : - " The finan- cial resources of every country depend upon the ...
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... look in ? Don't stand there with your finger in your mouth when a gentleman is in the house , but go into the corner there , will you ? He's a snivelling thing , sir , for a ' that I have done for his education . " Ludovicko paid little ...
... look in ? Don't stand there with your finger in your mouth when a gentleman is in the house , but go into the corner there , will you ? He's a snivelling thing , sir , for a ' that I have done for his education . " Ludovicko paid little ...
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... look ? " " As cool as a cucumber ; walked out as desired , waited till the receipt was drawn and signed , received it , and thanked me with all possible politeness , although he was the party paying the money . " Then let John Graham look ...
... look ? " " As cool as a cucumber ; walked out as desired , waited till the receipt was drawn and signed , received it , and thanked me with all possible politeness , although he was the party paying the money . " Then let John Graham look ...
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... look at me in the mail - coach last week . " " Why ? " answered Jones . " What right had she to speak to you ? You had no business with her ; whereas in the apothecary's she was pur- chasing ointment . Remember , too , you are only a ...
... look at me in the mail - coach last week . " " Why ? " answered Jones . " What right had she to speak to you ? You had no business with her ; whereas in the apothecary's she was pur- chasing ointment . Remember , too , you are only a ...
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... look At infant Clyde . For this I'll stand a glass ! 24 TALES FROM THE OLD DRAMATISTS . NO . II. stant gibes from his tougher companion , for having been sea - sick on an expedition to the Skilligs , pulled us across the deep harbour ...
... look At infant Clyde . For this I'll stand a glass ! 24 TALES FROM THE OLD DRAMATISTS . NO . II. stant gibes from his tougher companion , for having been sea - sick on an expedition to the Skilligs , pulled us across the deep harbour ...
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Página 31 - Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache : they are not carved with their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as their minds were wholly bent upon the world, the selfsame way they seem to turn their faces.
Página 28 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is 'my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Página 32 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Página 31 - Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.
Página 32 - Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Página 27 - To work thy discovery ; yet am now persuaded It would beget such violent effects As would damn us both. I would not for ten millions I had beheld thee : therefore use all means I never may have knowledge of thy name ; Enjoy thy lust still, and a wretched life, On that condition. — And for thee...
Página 32 - Not a whit: What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges, You may open them both ways: any way, for Heaven sake, So I were out of your whispering.
Página 354 - The king was not allowed so much as to walk abroad on Sundays : and if at any time there had been any gaiety at court, such as dancing or playing at cards, he was severely reproved for it.
Página 408 - With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 94 - ... which raiseth your thoughts unto old things and consideration of times before you, when even living men were antiquities ; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.