Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 20W. Blackwood & Sons, 1826 |
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... given , the secret has been too well kept to justify us in de- priving Gay of a credit , which no per- son of his own time seems to have had the least idea of supposing that he shared with any contemporary wit . Swift , indeed , was the ...
... given , the secret has been too well kept to justify us in de- priving Gay of a credit , which no per- son of his own time seems to have had the least idea of supposing that he shared with any contemporary wit . Swift , indeed , was the ...
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... given us fre- quent patches of the purple vestment , purpureus latè qui splendeat unus et alter assuitur pannus . " One of pe- culiar eccentricity now meets my eye , while reading an account of Sheridan's anxiety to secure the success ...
... given us fre- quent patches of the purple vestment , purpureus latè qui splendeat unus et alter assuitur pannus . " One of pe- culiar eccentricity now meets my eye , while reading an account of Sheridan's anxiety to secure the success ...
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... given , might easily be found.- Had I been among the friends who committed those papers to a biographer , I should certainly have refused to ac- quiesce in so full and indiscriminate a publication . The fac - simile of his hand ...
... given , might easily be found.- Had I been among the friends who committed those papers to a biographer , I should certainly have refused to ac- quiesce in so full and indiscriminate a publication . The fac - simile of his hand ...
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... given a mangled fac - simile , is eminently beau tiful ; her character , that of Elvira , of Rolla , and , indeed , of all , are drawn with great force , sustained with great skill , and productive of powerful ef- fect . I do not know ...
... given a mangled fac - simile , is eminently beau tiful ; her character , that of Elvira , of Rolla , and , indeed , of all , are drawn with great force , sustained with great skill , and productive of powerful ef- fect . I do not know ...
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... given , for the purpose of throw- ing ridicule on this obnoxious pro- duction . I quote the exact words from the second edition , vol . ii . p . 288.- " Even that scene where Cora describes the white buds ' and crimson blos- soms ' of ...
... given , for the purpose of throw- ing ridicule on this obnoxious pro- duction . I quote the exact words from the second edition , vol . ii . p . 288.- " Even that scene where Cora describes the white buds ' and crimson blos- soms ' of ...
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Página 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 232 - ... are bold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or, at the most, five or six syllables ; generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity ; and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour, or an hour, at a time.
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Página 266 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Página 253 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 523 - Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.
Página 218 - ... which could not stand against unrestrained foreign competition would be discouraged, yet, as no importation could be continued for any length of time without a corresponding exportation, direct or indirect, there would be an encouragement for the purpose of that exportation, of some other production to which our situation might be better suited ; thus affording at least an equal, and probably a greater, and certainly a more beneficial, employment to our own capital and labour.
Página 265 - Many are the notes Which, in his tuneful course, the wind draws forth From rocks, woods, caverns, heaths, and dashing shores; And well those lofty brethren bear their part In the wild concert — chiefly when the storm Rides high; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom...
Página 266 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Página 398 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.