Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 101William Blackwood, 1867 |
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Page 312 - Amen, so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word ; 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 220 - There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Page 684 - Mr. Darwin does not pretend to have discovered any law or rule according to which new Forms have been born from old Forms. He does not hold that outward conditions, however changed, are sufficient to account for them. . , . . His theory seems to be far better than a mere theory — to be an established scientific truth — in so far as it accounts, in part at least, for the success, and establishment, and spread of new Forms when they have arisen..
Page 310 - When He from His lofty throne Stooped to do and die , Everything was fully done; Hearken to His cry-- "It is finished!
Page 390 - Inverness came in the morning from the watch) that she was not a man, to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
Page 311 - HERE we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In heaven we part no more.
Page 85 - It is easy, indeed, to perceive that, even amidst the independence of early youth, an American woman is always mistress of herself: she indulges in all permitted pleasures, without yielding herself up to any of them ; and her reason never allows the reins of selfguidance to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely.
Page 40 - Takes up the Dardan sword and bares, Sad gift, for different uses meant. She eyed the robes with wistful look, And, pausing, thought awhile and wept : Then pressed her to the couch, and spoke Her last goodnight or ere she slept. " Sweet relics of a time of love, When fate and heaven were kind, Receive my life-blood, and remove These torments of the mind. My life is lived, and I have played The part that Fortune gave, And now I pass, a queenly shade, Majestic to the grave. A glorious city I have built,...
Page 43 - But Roman thou, do thou control The nations far and wide ; Be this thy genius, to impose The rule of peace on vanquished foes, Show pity to the humbled soul, And crush the sons of pride.
Page 118 - And likewise artificers, handicraftsmen and labourers have made confederacies and promises, and have sworn mutual oaths not only that they should not meddle one with another's work, and perform and finish that another hath begun, but also to constitute and appoint how much work they shall do in a day, and what hours and times they shall work, contrary to the laws and statutes of this realm, and to the great hurt and impoverishment of the King's majesty's subjects...