The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1856 |
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... leap into destruction . Water- horses and kelpies , keep stabled in your rock - stalls - for if you issue forth the river will sweep you down , before you have finished one neigh , to Castle Urquhart , and dash you , in a sheet of foam ...
... leap into destruction . Water- horses and kelpies , keep stabled in your rock - stalls - for if you issue forth the river will sweep you down , before you have finished one neigh , to Castle Urquhart , and dash you , in a sheet of foam ...
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... leap down into yonder glen , on whose brink three hundred feet high of chasmed cliffs frowns , or rather say smiles , so green is the ivy on one rounded corner , and so red the wall - flower on the sharp edges of the other , and so ...
... leap down into yonder glen , on whose brink three hundred feet high of chasmed cliffs frowns , or rather say smiles , so green is the ivy on one rounded corner , and so red the wall - flower on the sharp edges of the other , and so ...
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... leap over a con- siderable distance , and vice versa . As to always alighting on the toes , that is manifestly impossible , when you have to overleap a great extent of country . A leaper who dexterously throws out his feet before him ...
... leap over a con- siderable distance , and vice versa . As to always alighting on the toes , that is manifestly impossible , when you have to overleap a great extent of country . A leaper who dexterously throws out his feet before him ...
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... leap , on a slightly inclined plane , perhaps an inch to a yard , we have seen twenty - three feet done in great style - and measured to a nicety ; but the man who did it ( aged twenty - one , height , five feet eleven inches , weight ...
... leap , on a slightly inclined plane , perhaps an inch to a yard , we have seen twenty - three feet done in great style - and measured to a nicety ; but the man who did it ( aged twenty - one , height , five feet eleven inches , weight ...
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... leap , or running hop - step - and - leap , the run is a great matter . Now , the Irishman flies like a whirlwind , and takes the spring in an impetuous mood , that flings him over a rood of land . It is not safe to be near Pat when ...
... leap , or running hop - step - and - leap , the run is a great matter . Now , the Irishman flies like a whirlwind , and takes the spring in an impetuous mood , that flings him over a rood of land . It is not safe to be near Pat when ...
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