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... nature of my intromissions be required , it may be found in the consideration that , having undertaken this editorial office , I had a sacred duty to perform to the memory of the deceased ; and I feel assured that the course which I ...
... nature of my intromissions be required , it may be found in the consideration that , having undertaken this editorial office , I had a sacred duty to perform to the memory of the deceased ; and I feel assured that the course which I ...
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... volumes , derived their name . 1 Through which the Railway now runs in a natural channel , which could not have answered its purpose better had it been artificially constructed . xii PREFACE . " A cursed spot , ' tis.
... volumes , derived their name . 1 Through which the Railway now runs in a natural channel , which could not have answered its purpose better had it been artificially constructed . xii PREFACE . " A cursed spot , ' tis.
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... nature which endeared him to the old and to the young , with the latter of whom , in particular , he was always an especial favourite . But the animating spirit of the Noctes Ambrosianæ is the Ettrick Shepherd himself . James Hogg was ...
... nature which endeared him to the old and to the young , with the latter of whom , in particular , he was always an especial favourite . But the animating spirit of the Noctes Ambrosianæ is the Ettrick Shepherd himself . James Hogg was ...
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... natural tongue ; it was one of Sir Walter's most effective instruments ; but the author of the Noctes Ambrosiana wields it with a copiousness , flexibility , and splendour which never have been , and probably never will be , equalled ...
... natural tongue ; it was one of Sir Walter's most effective instruments ; but the author of the Noctes Ambrosiana wields it with a copiousness , flexibility , and splendour which never have been , and probably never will be , equalled ...
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... Nature and Art , The Shepherd in Full Dress , The Cockneys , Ladies ' Eating , A Charade , . Sermons . - Byron , Prize Poems , Macaulay and Praed , De Quincey , • IV . DECEMBER MDCCCXXV . Winter . The Poor - Laws , Tickler's Appetite ...
... Nature and Art , The Shepherd in Full Dress , The Cockneys , Ladies ' Eating , A Charade , . Sermons . - Byron , Prize Poems , Macaulay and Praed , De Quincey , • IV . DECEMBER MDCCCXXV . Winter . The Poor - Laws , Tickler's Appetite ...
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Página 354 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Página 46 - Disuse in him forgetfulness had wrought, In Latin he composed his history ; A garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught With matter of delight, and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great empress- queen.
Página 18 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moon-light scene in the Iliad.
Página 18 - Pope still retain their hold upon public estimation,— nay, there is not a passage of descriptive poetry which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers. Strange to think of an enthusiast, as may have been the case with thousands, reciting those verses under the cope of a moon-light sky, without having his raptures in the least disturbed by a suspicion of their absurdity.
Página 195 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for Her ' Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe"; But rather nerve the spirit that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So, when a few fleet severing years have flown, She'll meet thee at heaven's gate — and lead thee on ! Weep not for Her.