Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 23W. Blackwood & Sons, 1828 |
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Page 92
... enemy , neither is attained by the present sys- tem , and the failure in the latter point is striking and unaccountable . The entire service , which is most likely to be confounded with the enemy , from the nature of its operations ...
... enemy , neither is attained by the present sys- tem , and the failure in the latter point is striking and unaccountable . The entire service , which is most likely to be confounded with the enemy , from the nature of its operations ...
Page 93
... enemy have frequently contrived to get in upon our infantry ; the firing that might have repelled them was ... enemy's rifles . A dozen car bineers to a regiment , trained to the use of the weapon , would be enough for the purpose of ...
... enemy have frequently contrived to get in upon our infantry ; the firing that might have repelled them was ... enemy's rifles . A dozen car bineers to a regiment , trained to the use of the weapon , would be enough for the purpose of ...
Page 111
... enemy to keep a horse through the winter in a town . Then , what ri- ders are our Edinburgh youth ! It is the fashion now to take lessons - and every prig of an apprentice you see on horseback seems to have two cork legs . Out they jut ...
... enemy to keep a horse through the winter in a town . Then , what ri- ders are our Edinburgh youth ! It is the fashion now to take lessons - and every prig of an apprentice you see on horseback seems to have two cork legs . Out they jut ...
Page 154
... enemy surround thee unawares . The Sea - King sleeps on his shield , and the sky is his blue tent . When the storm is mightiest spread thy sail high- est let go , let go ! He is a coward who furls - do thou rather sink in the whirlpool ...
... enemy surround thee unawares . The Sea - King sleeps on his shield , and the sky is his blue tent . When the storm is mightiest spread thy sail high- est let go , let go ! He is a coward who furls - do thou rather sink in the whirlpool ...
Page 156
... enemy . Fri- thioff , upon this , declares himself re- lated to the threatened hero , and fling- ing his sword on the oaken - table , while the hall resounds with the blow , swears , aided by it alone , to defend his cousin , if need be ...
... enemy . Fri- thioff , upon this , declares himself re- lated to the threatened hero , and fling- ing his sword on the oaken - table , while the hall resounds with the blow , swears , aided by it alone , to defend his cousin , if need be ...
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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...
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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.
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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