Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 23W. Blackwood & Sons, 1828 |
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... character , that affects the shade , without shunning the sunshine , and by its composure in the calm , tells how bravely it would stand the storm . There is Sir Walter and his family , all characteristically figured in rustic guise by ...
... character , that affects the shade , without shunning the sunshine , and by its composure in the calm , tells how bravely it would stand the storm . There is Sir Walter and his family , all characteristically figured in rustic guise by ...
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... character of my children at Dun- barrow . They have been early mourn- ers , but not as without hope , ' and pursue the even tenor of their pious and duteous path , in all the sun- shine which Heaven can shed on what is , at best , a ...
... character of my children at Dun- barrow . They have been early mourn- ers , but not as without hope , ' and pursue the even tenor of their pious and duteous path , in all the sun- shine which Heaven can shed on what is , at best , a ...
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... character , represents the youngest and most fortunate of the graces , stealing the portraits of the whole rapt musi ... characters , has al- ways been kept up between us . Jack , who was , like myself , a younger bro- ther , owed to the ...
... character , represents the youngest and most fortunate of the graces , stealing the portraits of the whole rapt musi ... characters , has al- ways been kept up between us . Jack , who was , like myself , a younger bro- ther , owed to the ...
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... character , they rank , as a whole , almost lower than any other people upon earth . They have exhi- bited , throughout the contest , a natu- ral disposition of the worst description , They have fought from personal in- terest and ...
... character , they rank , as a whole , almost lower than any other people upon earth . They have exhi- bited , throughout the contest , a natu- ral disposition of the worst description , They have fought from personal in- terest and ...
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... character , Ill criticism as to style , and Monopoly as to repre- sentation . IN the treatment of things trite there is a peculiar difficulty . The de- cline of the British Drama has been so evident - so notorious and palpable to any ...
... character , Ill criticism as to style , and Monopoly as to repre- sentation . IN the treatment of things trite there is a peculiar difficulty . The de- cline of the British Drama has been so evident - so notorious and palpable to any ...
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Page 178 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 37 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 178 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Page 578 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Page 364 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, -will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Page 5 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 344 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 375 - Our manner of life was this. Lord Byron, who used to sit up at night, writing Don Juan (which he did under the influence of gin and water), rose late in the morning. He breakfasted ; read ; lounged about, singing an air, generally out of Rossini, and in a swaggering style, though in a voice at once small and veiled...
Page 397 - ... ask, To see how this cockney-bred setter of rabbits Takes gravely the lord of the forest to task, And judges of lions by puppy-dog habits. ' Nay, fed as he was (and this makes it a dark case) With sops every day from the lion's own pan, He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass, And — does all a dog, so diminutive, can.
Page 396 - Lives" are the rage) The whole Reminiscences, wond'rous and strange, Of a small puppy-dog, that liv'd once in the cage Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change. Though the dog is a dog of the kind they call