Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 90W. Blackwood., 1861 |
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... matter of the teaching was the same as now . It will shock some readers , no doubt , and comfort others , to find that Latin verse - making was a prominent feature in the school at Canterbury , and that no less than a hundred different ...
... matter of the teaching was the same as now . It will shock some readers , no doubt , and comfort others , to find that Latin verse - making was a prominent feature in the school at Canterbury , and that no less than a hundred different ...
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... matter . He said * -and in this he was confirmed by the evi- dence of his brother - that having received a pressing invitation to take up his quarters during the assizes at Mrs Stout's , he had re- solved to do so , his object being to ...
... matter . He said * -and in this he was confirmed by the evi- dence of his brother - that having received a pressing invitation to take up his quarters during the assizes at Mrs Stout's , he had re- solved to do so , his object being to ...
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... matter of philological curiosity , to enumerate over again the facts which one of the greatest masters of the English language can compress into the phrase " he excused himself and retired . " Cowper went to the house on his arrival in ...
... matter of philological curiosity , to enumerate over again the facts which one of the greatest masters of the English language can compress into the phrase " he excused himself and retired . " Cowper went to the house on his arrival in ...
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... matter how artfully disguised . Yet this singular power did not , as might have been the case with an inferior nature , engender a suspi- cious habit . To the man in whom he had once reposed his trust , he was as open as day ; but he ...
... matter how artfully disguised . Yet this singular power did not , as might have been the case with an inferior nature , engender a suspi- cious habit . To the man in whom he had once reposed his trust , he was as open as day ; but he ...
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... matter of imperi- ous necessity , and ends by regard- ing it as something scarcely short of a positive gratification . That is my theory of flirting , which I hold to be the inevitable product of a highly artificial but unwholesome form ...
... matter of imperi- ous necessity , and ends by regard- ing it as something scarcely short of a positive gratification . That is my theory of flirting , which I hold to be the inevitable product of a highly artificial but unwholesome form ...
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Page 79 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 395 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 594 - When I remember all The friends so linked together I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 228 - Tread softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll, — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou.
Page 227 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 322 - Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors ; which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company the more acceptable.
Page 610 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 322 - Wood's character of him is, that " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
Page 226 - In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter — all her bright hair streaming down — And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white All but her face, and that clear-featured face Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead, But fast asleep, and lay as tho
Page 396 - Governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands...