The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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... LATE SIR JAMES FOULIS OF COLINTON , BART . CORSTORPHIN . Some antiquaries suppose that Corstorphin was , by the Romans , called Curia Storphino- rum , from a band of soldiers of the name of Storphini having been sta- tioned there . But ...
... LATE SIR JAMES FOULIS OF COLINTON , BART . CORSTORPHIN . Some antiquaries suppose that Corstorphin was , by the Romans , called Curia Storphino- rum , from a band of soldiers of the name of Storphini having been sta- tioned there . But ...
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... late as October 1817 , an animal of the same general appearance was between Long Island and Connecticut , " progressing rapidly up sound , ” as the American writer expresses it , at the astonishing rate of six or seven miles in ten ...
... late as October 1817 , an animal of the same general appearance was between Long Island and Connecticut , " progressing rapidly up sound , ” as the American writer expresses it , at the astonishing rate of six or seven miles in ten ...
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... late archbishop of Mechlin . ( Pamphlet . ) well known in the literary and political world to require from us any particular introduction to our readers . We shall therefore barely mention , that this is a pamphlet of about sixty pages ...
... late archbishop of Mechlin . ( Pamphlet . ) well known in the literary and political world to require from us any particular introduction to our readers . We shall therefore barely mention , that this is a pamphlet of about sixty pages ...
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... late elections . The author has drawn a very able picture of the present state of parties in France . The royalists , he says , though numerous , being without the spirit of intrigue , play a very small part in the political world ...
... late elections . The author has drawn a very able picture of the present state of parties in France . The royalists , he says , though numerous , being without the spirit of intrigue , play a very small part in the political world ...
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... late John Philpot Curran . ) My mother sigh'd - the stream of pain Flow'd fast and chilly o'er her brow ; My father pray'd , nor pray'd in vain- Sweet mercy cast a glance below ! Mine husband dear , the sufferer cried , My pains are o ...
... late John Philpot Curran . ) My mother sigh'd - the stream of pain Flow'd fast and chilly o'er her brow ; My father pray'd , nor pray'd in vain- Sweet mercy cast a glance below ! Mine husband dear , the sufferer cried , My pains are o ...
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Página 223 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 367 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Página 63 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Página 462 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Página 569 - Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; To think what a long line of titles may follow The relics of him who died — friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the fun'ral array Of one whom they shunn'd in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket, to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles, to-morrow...
Página 462 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 569 - Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Página 163 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Página 341 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Página 341 - Rede as the bristles of a sowes eres. His nose-thirles blacke were and wide. A swerd and bokeler bare he by his side. His mouth as wide was as a forneis. He was a jangler, and a goliardeis, And that was most of sinne, and harlotries.