Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33W. Blackwood., 1833 |
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... continued to pour in during the entire night , -arms and ammunition were brought from considerable distances on mules and horses , and by daybreak the Portuguese battalions were astonished to find themselves besieged by five thousand ...
... continued to pour in during the entire night , -arms and ammunition were brought from considerable distances on mules and horses , and by daybreak the Portuguese battalions were astonished to find themselves besieged by five thousand ...
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... continued to obey him , as traitors to Portugal . But this act of violence was equally an act of folly . The blow was too late . The Prince , on receiving the dispatches , virtually consigning him to a dungeon , decided at once on ...
... continued to obey him , as traitors to Portugal . But this act of violence was equally an act of folly . The blow was too late . The Prince , on receiving the dispatches , virtually consigning him to a dungeon , decided at once on ...
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... continued to grow more imperious , until the throne was absolutely a cypher , and the old King little better than a prisoner . Two years of this progress might justly make a very serious difference in any man's contemplations : during ...
... continued to grow more imperious , until the throne was absolutely a cypher , and the old King little better than a prisoner . Two years of this progress might justly make a very serious difference in any man's contemplations : during ...
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... continued to work to windward , while every now and then the hollo came past us on the gale louder and louder , until it guided us to the fording which we had crossed on our first arrival . We stopped there ; -the red torrent was ...
... continued to work to windward , while every now and then the hollo came past us on the gale louder and louder , until it guided us to the fording which we had crossed on our first arrival . We stopped there ; -the red torrent was ...
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... continued- " Returned— why , he may be drowned - Cringle , take care little Reefpoint be not drowned . " Sneezer lowered his black snout , and for a moment poked it into the white ashes of the fire , and then raising it and stretching ...
... continued- " Returned— why , he may be drowned - Cringle , take care little Reefpoint be not drowned . " Sneezer lowered his black snout , and for a moment poked it into the white ashes of the fire , and then raising it and stretching ...
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Page 363 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
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Page 158 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
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