Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Band 63W & R Chambers, 1886 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
answered appearance asked Barbadoes better boat buckra called captain Carver colour coracle course cried dark dear Delgado door Dr Whitaker Edgar Edward England English eyes face fact father feel feet fish girl give Gretna Green hand Harry Noel Hawthorn head heard heart honour hundred island knew lady Latin Union light Lincolnshire living London look Marian marriage married matter means minutes Miss Dupuy morning mulatto never nigger night Nora obeah officer once passed persons Pimento plants poor pounds púsári replied ROBERT CHAMBERS Rodley round Scotland seemed seen servants side Slimm smile soon strange Street tell thing thought thousand tion Tom Dupuy trees trial by ordeal Trinidad turned vessel village voice watch West Indian words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 98 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Seite 104 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Seite 359 - AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud — it has sung for three years ; Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 402 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Seite 321 - All that are desirous to pass from London to York, or from York to London or any other Place on that road : Let them Repair to the Black Swan in Holborn in London and to the Black Swan in Coney Street in York.
Seite 98 - Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-off years which still live in us, and transform our perception into love.
Seite 230 - A woman of fortune being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously : but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
Seite 35 - Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side...
Seite 231 - I have done a good thing," said the gentleman, " but I do not know that I have done a wise thing." JOHNSON. "Yes, sir; no money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people; and a wife is pleased that she is dressed.
Seite 299 - Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and gushing; sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge - especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen.