Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 16W. Blackwood., 1824 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 15
Page 191
... Cockaigne ; particularly that portion of them who have an affection for lovely Italy , -the Improvisatrice . The idea is pretty ; a young lady of great poetical powers falls in love , unhappily , as usual , and her adven- tures afford a ...
... Cockaigne ; particularly that portion of them who have an affection for lovely Italy , -the Improvisatrice . The idea is pretty ; a young lady of great poetical powers falls in love , unhappily , as usual , and her adven- tures afford a ...
Page 442
... Cockaigne , and who consist of the gentlemen of the press , the Greek , Spanish , and other com- mittees , the loan - mongers and stock- jobbers , & c . & c . have had the chief share in fabricating the " Liberal Sys- tem , " in ...
... Cockaigne , and who consist of the gentlemen of the press , the Greek , Spanish , and other com- mittees , the loan - mongers and stock- jobbers , & c . & c . have had the chief share in fabricating the " Liberal Sys- tem , " in ...
Page 443
... Cockaigne - if you say one syllable against all this , you are a fool , a knave , a bigot , a tyrant ! -Do such things then , of necessity , lead to the establishment of liberty ? Is no- thing more necessary for such esta- blishment ...
... Cockaigne - if you say one syllable against all this , you are a fool , a knave , a bigot , a tyrant ! -Do such things then , of necessity , lead to the establishment of liberty ? Is no- thing more necessary for such esta- blishment ...
Page 444
... Cockaigne , without knowing anything of their mo tives , character , resources , and chan- ces , or caring a straw for such things , were ravished with them for it . We were instantly stunned with the most fulsome panegyrics on the ...
... Cockaigne , without knowing anything of their mo tives , character , resources , and chan- ces , or caring a straw for such things , were ravished with them for it . We were instantly stunned with the most fulsome panegyrics on the ...
Page 445
... Cockaigne were , of course , thrown into raptures when the colonies of Spain separated themselves from the mother - country . The people of South America were ignorant and licentious in the highest degree , and their leaders were , in ...
... Cockaigne were , of course , thrown into raptures when the colonies of Spain separated themselves from the mother - country . The people of South America were ignorant and licentious in the highest degree , and their leaders were , in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American appear beautiful called Capt Captain Catholics character Church Church of England clergy Cockaigne daugh daughter despotism Devil's Elixir ditto Edinburgh Edinburgh Review England eyes fact favour feel Fiesko French give Glasgow Goetz hand head heard heart honour Ireland Italy James Joanna Baillie John kind King labour lady late Leith less liberty London look Lord Byron manner matter means Medardus ment mind nation nature neral never night NORTH object ODOHERTY opinion party perhaps Persian person political Political Economy poor possess principles produce racter readers religious Review Scotland shew Spain speak spirit taste thee ther thing thou thought tion tithe Tories truth vice Weislingen Whiggism Whigs whole wines wish word write young
Popular passages
Page 452 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 321 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 12 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Page 544 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 586 - Bryologia Britannica: Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland systematically arranged and described according to the Method of Bruch and Schimper ; with 61 illustrative Plates. Being a New Edition, enlarged and altered, of the Muscologia Britannica of Messrs. Hooker and Taylor. 8vo. 42s.; or, with the Plates coloured, price £4.
Page 141 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 301 - O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away...
Page 58 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 235 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Page 241 - I must tell you, there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland : there is King James, the head of this commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the church, whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member.