Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 52W. Blackwood & Sons, 1842 |
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Page 73
... round again : Or bitterer still to break the seals , Sick for the love no line reveals , Striving to wrest cold Duty's words To heart - born tenderness and truth , As if existence ' shatter'd chords Could yield the music of our youth ...
... round again : Or bitterer still to break the seals , Sick for the love no line reveals , Striving to wrest cold Duty's words To heart - born tenderness and truth , As if existence ' shatter'd chords Could yield the music of our youth ...
Page 77
... round the barquillera's waist , and made an at- tempt to kiss her . She held him off for an instant , and looked behind her as though to see if any one were fol- lowing them along the road . Not a creature was in sight , and she no long ...
... round the barquillera's waist , and made an at- tempt to kiss her . She held him off for an instant , and looked behind her as though to see if any one were fol- lowing them along the road . Not a creature was in sight , and she no long ...
Page 88
... round their mother's grave , worked themselves to an oil to keep her from the hospital - much more the workus . The girls worked all day ; and boys and girls sat up all night , turn and turn about , with their poor mother- she was ...
... round their mother's grave , worked themselves to an oil to keep her from the hospital - much more the workus . The girls worked all day ; and boys and girls sat up all night , turn and turn about , with their poor mother- she was ...
Page 90
... round , or you will probably break your shins over a retail lot of shrimps , lobsters , or flat- fish , refuse of the morning's market . But this is Billingsgate . If you hap- pen to be a Liverpool man , you will turn up your nose with ...
... round , or you will probably break your shins over a retail lot of shrimps , lobsters , or flat- fish , refuse of the morning's market . But this is Billingsgate . If you hap- pen to be a Liverpool man , you will turn up your nose with ...
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... round thy face , with eyes Reflecting the pure azure , with cheeks ' which ' The beauty and the glory of thy youth ... round ye . triumph'd as he died . " Any schoolboy who had ever learned a verse , would rather have written , " Look ...
... round thy face , with eyes Reflecting the pure azure , with cheeks ' which ' The beauty and the glory of thy youth ... round ye . triumph'd as he died . " Any schoolboy who had ever learned a verse , would rather have written , " Look ...
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Page 367 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 366 - To plague the inventor : this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust : First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed ; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his...
Page 368 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 152 - How small, of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Page 373 - Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
Page 13 - But as the marigold at the Sun's eye ; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour...
Page 372 - Some degree of goodness must be previously supposed : this always implies the love of itself, an affection to goodness : the highest, the adequate object of this affection, is perfect goodness; which, therefore, we are to " love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength.
Page 287 - Below, at the foot of that precipice drear, Spread the gloomy, and purple, and pathless obscure ! A silence of horror that slept on the ear, That the eye more appalled might the horror endure ! Salamander — snake — dragon — vast reptiles that dwell In the deep — coiled about the grim jaws of their hell.
Page 366 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 367 - One cried, God bless us! and, Amen, the other; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say, Amen, When they did say, God bless us.