Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen4W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... true and lively description of the levée of one of these ladies , which we shall begin with translating . " Could any one see this fair crea- ture , " says Lucian , " at the moment when she awakes from her sleep , he would have no great ...
... true and lively description of the levée of one of these ladies , which we shall begin with translating . " Could any one see this fair crea- ture , " says Lucian , " at the moment when she awakes from her sleep , he would have no great ...
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... true , that the agc of this precious monument is some few centuries later than that of our Sabina ; and it is al- so true , that our Herculanean lady can scarcely be supposed to have rivalled the magnificent equipage of the con- sular ...
... true , that the agc of this precious monument is some few centuries later than that of our Sabina ; and it is al- so true , that our Herculanean lady can scarcely be supposed to have rivalled the magnificent equipage of the con- sular ...
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... true , that Shirley is excelled by several of his contemporaries in depth of passion , which is the soul of tragedy ; but we cannot grant that he is not entitled , on his own peculiar merits , to take his seat among those immortals . We ...
... true , that Shirley is excelled by several of his contemporaries in depth of passion , which is the soul of tragedy ; but we cannot grant that he is not entitled , on his own peculiar merits , to take his seat among those immortals . We ...
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... true disciple of modern society has a separate bucket of cold water ready for every different sort of pretension that can possibly make its appearance ; and he would think himself a simpleton , if he were found , on any occasion ...
... true disciple of modern society has a separate bucket of cold water ready for every different sort of pretension that can possibly make its appearance ; and he would think himself a simpleton , if he were found , on any occasion ...
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... true variation , but only by actual observation , for the deviation does not increase either in an arithmetical or logarithmic propor- tion . On board the Isabella , and in latitude 74 ° , the point of change is N. 17 ° E. The extreme ...
... true variation , but only by actual observation , for the deviation does not increase either in an arithmetical or logarithmic propor- tion . On board the Isabella , and in latitude 74 ° , the point of change is N. 17 ° E. The extreme ...
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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.