Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen4W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... Observations on the Writings of Luigi Palcani . " " Translation of the Elogio di Lionardo Ximenes . " " On the ... observe , that from the great mass of our materials , it is quite impossible we should make a selection equally pleasing ...
... Observations on the Writings of Luigi Palcani . " " Translation of the Elogio di Lionardo Ximenes . " " On the ... observe , that from the great mass of our materials , it is quite impossible we should make a selection equally pleasing ...
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... observed in their modes of representing the character and influence of the female sex ; and in no one point perhaps is the supe- riority so visibly on the side of the moderns . Of those modern poets , nevertheless , who have been ...
... observed in their modes of representing the character and influence of the female sex ; and in no one point perhaps is the supe- riority so visibly on the side of the moderns . Of those modern poets , nevertheless , who have been ...
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... observed in boyhood , it would always exhibit that genius in some form of expression . All the truly great spirits of whose youth we know any thing authentic , have done so . Traits of such thought in boys of genius are not to be seen ...
... observed in boyhood , it would always exhibit that genius in some form of expression . All the truly great spirits of whose youth we know any thing authentic , have done so . Traits of such thought in boys of genius are not to be seen ...
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... observed , that in the Odyssey , Ulysses washes his hands be- fore he eats . This the heroes of the Iliad never do . The Odyssey is the quiet picture of the private life of persons , whom peace had accustomed to luxurious indulgence ...
... observed , that in the Odyssey , Ulysses washes his hands be- fore he eats . This the heroes of the Iliad never do . The Odyssey is the quiet picture of the private life of persons , whom peace had accustomed to luxurious indulgence ...
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... observed how unfit a man he was for successor , who was reduced to beg assistance of his predecessor . The council met as soon as possible , the next morning at latest . Then Arch- bishop Wake , with whom one copy of the will had been ...
... observed how unfit a man he was for successor , who was reduced to beg assistance of his predecessor . The council met as soon as possible , the next morning at latest . Then Arch- bishop Wake , with whom one copy of the will had been ...
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Página 54 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Página 257 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.
Página 256 - My Friend! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and chearful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Página 259 - That oaten pipe of hers is mute, Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers: This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Página 213 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 142 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..
Página 146 - I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Página 158 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 147 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Página 257 - Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves. Farewell, farewell, the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.