Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3Knight, 1824 |
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... turned away our thoughts from the tangible and the familiar . Travellers have gone to Italy , not to estimate the character of her inhabitants to examine her forms of government - or to learn the influence of her climate , her history ...
... turned away our thoughts from the tangible and the familiar . Travellers have gone to Italy , not to estimate the character of her inhabitants to examine her forms of government - or to learn the influence of her climate , her history ...
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... turned their waters into blood , those impious magicians intending not benefit to the thirsting people , but vain and emulous ostentation of their own art , did themselves also change into blood the water which the plague had spared ...
... turned their waters into blood , those impious magicians intending not benefit to the thirsting people , but vain and emulous ostentation of their own art , did themselves also change into blood the water which the plague had spared ...
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... turning to the right or the left , he must walk in a desert , and not in Cheapside . Thus was he enforced to do many things which jumped not with his inclina- tion nor made for his honour ; because the army , on which alone he could ...
... turning to the right or the left , he must walk in a desert , and not in Cheapside . Thus was he enforced to do many things which jumped not with his inclina- tion nor made for his honour ; because the army , on which alone he could ...
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... turned from them with loathing to the sweeter poisons of servitude . This is but for a time . England is sleep- ing on the lap of Dalilah , traitorously chained , but not yet shorn of strength . Let the cry be once heard the Philistines ...
... turned from them with loathing to the sweeter poisons of servitude . This is but for a time . England is sleep- ing on the lap of Dalilah , traitorously chained , but not yet shorn of strength . Let the cry be once heard the Philistines ...
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... turned out ; and Plato was not there , but was reported to be dwelling in a Republic formed on his own model , and governed by his own laws . Lucian , in accordance with his own philosophy , allots the most distinguished stations to ...
... turned out ; and Plato was not there , but was reported to be dwelling in a Republic formed on his own model , and governed by his own laws . Lucian , in accordance with his own philosophy , allots the most distinguished stations to ...
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Page 38 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 191 - Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Page 83 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Page 189 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay.
Page 86 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Page 190 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Page 190 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight...
Page 191 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Page 39 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 304 - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...