Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen4William Blackwood, 1819 |
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... learned to despise himself for gross impurity , he had not stop- ped half - way in his reformation . It had been well , that instead of lopping off the most prominent branches , he had torn up the roots also , and for ever withered the ...
... learned to despise himself for gross impurity , he had not stop- ped half - way in his reformation . It had been well , that instead of lopping off the most prominent branches , he had torn up the roots also , and for ever withered the ...
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... learned by heart , in his infancy , the heroic ballads of his nation . Amidst the solitary occupations of his rural labours , the soul of the ploughman fed itself with high thoughts of patriotism and religion , and with that happy in ...
... learned by heart , in his infancy , the heroic ballads of his nation . Amidst the solitary occupations of his rural labours , the soul of the ploughman fed itself with high thoughts of patriotism and religion , and with that happy in ...
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... learned , for I have appeared too late in the world and in Italy . To have done something , I should have had an education anala- gous to my pursuits , and this at your The self - educated are accordingly marked by strong peculiarities ...
... learned , for I have appeared too late in the world and in Italy . To have done something , I should have had an education anala- gous to my pursuits , and this at your The self - educated are accordingly marked by strong peculiarities ...
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... learned condemned as extravagant ; and Galileo abjured on his knees the philosophical truths he had ascertained . So has it been , too , with inferior spirits . Nothing can be more bitter to a man of genius , than to see the truth which ...
... learned condemned as extravagant ; and Galileo abjured on his knees the philosophical truths he had ascertained . So has it been , too , with inferior spirits . Nothing can be more bitter to a man of genius , than to see the truth which ...
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... learned men amongst you , and since I am from the Kinge's owne person sent hither unto you for the preser- vacion of your selves and all the Realme , I thinke it meete you give me some reason- able answeare . " Wheareat everie man hold ...
... learned men amongst you , and since I am from the Kinge's owne person sent hither unto you for the preser- vacion of your selves and all the Realme , I thinke it meete you give me some reason- able answeare . " Wheareat everie man hold ...
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Página 260 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Página 260 - Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 261 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Página 160 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered 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 262 - He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 260 - And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being...
Página 479 - Her lips and cheeks seemed very pale and wan, But on her forehead and within her eye Lay beauty which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness ; — on the throne She leaned. The king, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown, With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Página 217 - 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 261 - 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.
Página 144 - 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..