Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 40W. Blackwood, 1836 |
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Página 33
... light their nuptial chambers with a fetid vapour , convey pigs to the shambles at the rate of thirty miles an hour , nor ride a - hunting on their tea kettles - yet something of the arts that refine and ennoble luxury was revealed to ...
... light their nuptial chambers with a fetid vapour , convey pigs to the shambles at the rate of thirty miles an hour , nor ride a - hunting on their tea kettles - yet something of the arts that refine and ennoble luxury was revealed to ...
Página 77
... light and shade over the whole bunch is awanting . It is in vain to assert , as a reason and excuse for this manifest infe- riority , that we have not yet arrived at that age of national existence , or that period in the history of art ...
... light and shade over the whole bunch is awanting . It is in vain to assert , as a reason and excuse for this manifest infe- riority , that we have not yet arrived at that age of national existence , or that period in the history of art ...
Página 78
... light breeze sweeps over the surface of the waters ; the little waves rise and dance to catch the dying radiance , then sink into the shades of night ; light barks seem to sport on the glittering bosom of the main ; the branches of wood ...
... light breeze sweeps over the surface of the waters ; the little waves rise and dance to catch the dying radiance , then sink into the shades of night ; light barks seem to sport on the glittering bosom of the main ; the branches of wood ...
Página 81
... light which swims over that lovely lake ; not a breath disturbs its sweet expanse ; not a dimple breaks its blue serene ; pic- tured in the glassy mirror the moun- tains , the villages , the woods of its overhanging banks are given ...
... light which swims over that lovely lake ; not a breath disturbs its sweet expanse ; not a dimple breaks its blue serene ; pic- tured in the glassy mirror the moun- tains , the villages , the woods of its overhanging banks are given ...
Página 85
... light character would flow from such an institution ; it is a proof how far we are behind in real civilisation , amidst all our boasting of the march of intellect , that no such bequest has hitherto been made . It is high time that , by ...
... light character would flow from such an institution ; it is a proof how far we are behind in real civilisation , amidst all our boasting of the march of intellect , that no such bequest has hitherto been made . It is high time that , by ...
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Página 145 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Página 145 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 142 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart...
Página 147 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Página 435 - ... had been familiar from her very birth. She treads as though her footsteps had been among marble palaces, beneath roofs of fretted gold, o'er cedar floors and pavements of jasper and porphyry — amid gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but as she has never known want, or grief, or fear, or disappointment, her wisdom is without a touch of the sombre or the sad; her affections are all...
Página 443 - ... been returned, I hereby undertake to guarantee and save you harmless from any and every other expense whatsoever, whether of agents, carriages, counsel, petition against the return, or of any other description...
Página 435 - Shakspeare has lavished on many of his female characters ; but besides the dignity, the sweetness, and tenderness which should distinguish her sex generally, she is individualized by qualities peculiar to herself; by her high mental powers, her enthusiasm of tempera- ; ment, her decision of purpose, and her buoyancy of spirit.
Página 331 - ... him (as in truth they are) no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him, as the perceptions of pain or pleasure, or the most inward passions of his soul. For our judging objects perceived by sight to be at any distance, or without the mind, is (vide Sect. xxvm.) entirely the effect of experience, which one in those circumstances could not yet have attained to.
Página 68 - ... the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, " Pray, my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt?
Página 42 - Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes In brighter flow; her wishing bosom heaves With palpitations wild; kind tumults seize Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love. From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment.