Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 23W. Blackwood & Sons, 1828 |
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... respect to venerate the unconcealable secret of in- nocent nature - So - so ! Not a word- not a look more , bright Caroline ! of the " Forget me Not " - -or of the " Bri- dal Morning , " except that - now you have recovered from the ...
... respect to venerate the unconcealable secret of in- nocent nature - So - so ! Not a word- not a look more , bright Caroline ! of the " Forget me Not " - -or of the " Bri- dal Morning , " except that - now you have recovered from the ...
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... respect of the means of acquisition , Greece is as much the right of Turkey , as Bri- tish India , British America , and Ire . land , are the right of Britain . On this point , the right of Turkey is not disputed by the most romantic ...
... respect of the means of acquisition , Greece is as much the right of Turkey , as Bri- tish India , British America , and Ire . land , are the right of Britain . On this point , the right of Turkey is not disputed by the most romantic ...
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... respect . Why did not Dr Brown come to dinner ? Where is he ? ” I wish I had seen the group at this moment ; or had Mr David Wilkie seen it , and taken a picture from it , it would have been ten times better . The Doc- tor's face of ...
... respect . Why did not Dr Brown come to dinner ? Where is he ? ” I wish I had seen the group at this moment ; or had Mr David Wilkie seen it , and taken a picture from it , it would have been ten times better . The Doc- tor's face of ...
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... respecting those signs of popular agitation which had excited my curiosity as I came through the village . My inquiry set ... respect unto the damsel , and , verily , I might go farther and fare worse . ' " Marry in " made for any other ...
... respecting those signs of popular agitation which had excited my curiosity as I came through the village . My inquiry set ... respect unto the damsel , and , verily , I might go farther and fare worse . ' " Marry in " made for any other ...
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... respect- able tradesmen and farmers were boarded , and taught upon moderate terms ; though , to do Andrew justice , saving considerations were not para mount with him , when his son's wel- fare was concerned , and he was far more ...
... respect- able tradesmen and farmers were boarded , and taught upon moderate terms ; though , to do Andrew justice , saving considerations were not para mount with him , when his son's wel- fare was concerned , and he was far more ...
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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