Blackwood's Magazine, Bind 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Side 182
... Puerto Barrios . At one end of the carriage , which was a sort of saloon corridor , a young man reclined on a sofa ... Cortes . I was to meet Chatsworth at Tela , the next port round the coast , at which he had landed a few days ...
... Puerto Barrios . At one end of the carriage , which was a sort of saloon corridor , a young man reclined on a sofa ... Cortes . I was to meet Chatsworth at Tela , the next port round the coast , at which he had landed a few days ...
Side 183
... Puerto Cortes on the return journey . I went back to the " Will it be calm ? I asked the loquacious mate as we puffed away steadily . 66 " In de harbour , yes , sah , " and showed his strong white teeth , which had been nourished by ...
... Puerto Cortes on the return journey . I went back to the " Will it be calm ? I asked the loquacious mate as we puffed away steadily . 66 " In de harbour , yes , sah , " and showed his strong white teeth , which had been nourished by ...
Side 184
... Puerto Cortes with all our packing- cases and gear , because it's too rough to land them . I've always said never trust the sea . It isn't a Friday either , nor the thirteenth . It's just merely the sea . " I shook my fist angrily , but ...
... Puerto Cortes with all our packing- cases and gear , because it's too rough to land them . I've always said never trust the sea . It isn't a Friday either , nor the thirteenth . It's just merely the sea . " I shook my fist angrily , but ...
Side 185
... Puerto Cortes has made a mistake . He sent it half - way up the line to await our arrival , so it's sitting in the bush . I wire and go down to the station every day to receive it . I'm going now . Coming ? " There was no luggage at the ...
... Puerto Cortes has made a mistake . He sent it half - way up the line to await our arrival , so it's sitting in the bush . I wire and go down to the station every day to receive it . I'm going now . Coming ? " There was no luggage at the ...
Side 407
... Puerto Cortes , five weeks later . but they regretted that it was too late . The last train had already passed my station . It was the very devil to be stranded here in this gloomy spot for the night . Various negro officials offered ...
... Puerto Cortes , five weeks later . but they regretted that it was too late . The last train had already passed my station . It was the very devil to be stranded here in this gloomy spot for the night . Various negro officials offered ...
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Side 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Side 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Side 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Side 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Side 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Side 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Side 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Side 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Side 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Side 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.