Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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Page 14
... hand over the precipice of despair ; nor ever leaves them till the mortal sweat is on their brows . And even then , when " earthly hope " is at an end , how often doth that other spirit , with eyes fixed above , sup- port them in the ...
... hand over the precipice of despair ; nor ever leaves them till the mortal sweat is on their brows . And even then , when " earthly hope " is at an end , how often doth that other spirit , with eyes fixed above , sup- port them in the ...
Page 15
... hands of some of my fellow - travellers a sheep - skin I had been advised at Madrid to furnish myself with , a silk hand- kerchief , and a cap , which I claimed , and which served to keep me warm while crossing the plateau of Burgos ...
... hands of some of my fellow - travellers a sheep - skin I had been advised at Madrid to furnish myself with , a silk hand- kerchief , and a cap , which I claimed , and which served to keep me warm while crossing the plateau of Burgos ...
Page 24
... hand to receive it . It is to announce her death - the death of the lady of Wendover Hall ! ' she said as she broke the seal . She was mistaken ; it was from the lady herself , requiring her immediate presence at Wen - expressed much ...
... hand to receive it . It is to announce her death - the death of the lady of Wendover Hall ! ' she said as she broke the seal . She was mistaken ; it was from the lady herself , requiring her immediate presence at Wen - expressed much ...
Page 38
... hand hard upon her eyes , and then languidly resumed her fine stitching , on which she had been busy since morning . The door opened , and a slender little girl of about twelve years of age entered , her large blue eyes dilated and ...
... hand hard upon her eyes , and then languidly resumed her fine stitching , on which she had been busy since morning . The door opened , and a slender little girl of about twelve years of age entered , her large blue eyes dilated and ...
Page 60
... hand , the other by the left , and ear- nestly watched his changing countenance , unconsciously imitating some of ... hand , and subjecting them to the best or simplest process that occurred to her , in due time she returned , cup in ...
... hand , the other by the left , and ear- nestly watched his changing countenance , unconsciously imitating some of ... hand , and subjecting them to the best or simplest process that occurred to her , in due time she returned , cup in ...
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Page 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Page 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Page 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 204 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!