Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 52W. Blackwood & Sons, 1842 |
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... picture of utter debasement in an army - coming from no enemy , but from one who , at the very moment of recording his opinion , knew this army to be the king's final resource . Reluctant as a wise man must feel to reject as irre ...
... picture of utter debasement in an army - coming from no enemy , but from one who , at the very moment of recording his opinion , knew this army to be the king's final resource . Reluctant as a wise man must feel to reject as irre ...
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... pictures , best in their moral effect and dignity , to an amount not exceeding one hundred ; and surely it would be very difficult to find , at any one exhibition , such a number , worthy to bear and carry with them in the world's ...
... pictures , best in their moral effect and dignity , to an amount not exceeding one hundred ; and surely it would be very difficult to find , at any one exhibition , such a number , worthy to bear and carry with them in the world's ...
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... pictures , and whether it be done by the players or the painter , what matter , so they be effective , and the story worth telling ; and how shall they be better told than as the author intended they should be represented ? The boards ...
... pictures , and whether it be done by the players or the painter , what matter , so they be effective , and the story worth telling ; and how shall they be better told than as the author intended they should be represented ? The boards ...
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... picture before us , we could not resist the painting him out . In his " Rent Day , " the figures are half of them deformed the farmer at the table has a hump - back , or his shoulder is out . The " Blind - man's buff " is all hips and ...
... picture before us , we could not resist the painting him out . In his " Rent Day , " the figures are half of them deformed the farmer at the table has a hump - back , or his shoulder is out . The " Blind - man's buff " is all hips and ...
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... picture , had. itself to tell ? if it is nothing but pic- torial device , and display of mechani- cal art , there is ... pictures , Sir David Wilkie's man- ner of representing hair must have arisen in some deception of this kind ...
... picture , had. itself to tell ? if it is nothing but pic- torial device , and display of mechani- cal art , there is ... pictures , Sir David Wilkie's man- ner of representing hair must have arisen in some deception of this kind ...
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Página 361 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 360 - To plague the inventor : this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust : First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed ; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his...
Página 362 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Página 148 - How small, of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Página 367 - Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
Página 13 - But as the marigold at the Sun's eye ; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour...
Página 366 - Some degree of goodness must be previously supposed : this always implies the love of itself, an affection to goodness : the highest, the adequate object of this affection, is perfect goodness; which, therefore, we are to " love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength.
Página 283 - Below, at the foot of that precipice drear, Spread the gloomy, and purple, and pathless obscure ! A silence of horror that slept on the ear, That the eye more appalled might the horror endure ! Salamander — snake — dragon — vast reptiles that dwell In the deep — coiled about the grim jaws of their hell.
Página 360 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 361 - One cried, God bless us! and, Amen, the other; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say, Amen, When they did say, God bless us.