Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 23W. Blackwood & Sons, 1828 |
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... things in silent wonder and love . Yes , Mary , the old man loves to hear thy low sweet voice repeating some pure and ... thing , because he is old . Now , who do you think is the Grandfather that tells those Tales - and who is Hugh Lit ...
... things in silent wonder and love . Yes , Mary , the old man loves to hear thy low sweet voice repeating some pure and ... thing , because he is old . Now , who do you think is the Grandfather that tells those Tales - and who is Hugh Lit ...
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... thing in the words of this short gloomy epistle , which haunted me painfully amid the placid stillness of Dunbar row ... things besides coal fires to make sunshine within doors in England . The smiles of a wife , for instance . " " Cold ...
... thing in the words of this short gloomy epistle , which haunted me painfully amid the placid stillness of Dunbar row ... things besides coal fires to make sunshine within doors in England . The smiles of a wife , for instance . " " Cold ...
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... things trite there is a peculiar difficulty . The de- cline of the British Drama has been so evident - so notorious ... thing there , better or worse pourtrayed , as may happen . Hearing , as one does , such a loud talk from all manner ...
... things trite there is a peculiar difficulty . The de- cline of the British Drama has been so evident - so notorious ... thing there , better or worse pourtrayed , as may happen . Hearing , as one does , such a loud talk from all manner ...
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... thing , and human character another - a fact , which if a man happens to be of a consider ate disposition , has an effect upon him pretty much like that produced by suddenly running his nose , in the dark , against a post - a sort of ...
... thing , and human character another - a fact , which if a man happens to be of a consider ate disposition , has an effect upon him pretty much like that produced by suddenly running his nose , in the dark , against a post - a sort of ...
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... things . This seems so palpable and self - evident , that one wonders how it could ever be missed , and what is still more ex- traordinary , the practical part or way to bring the desired effect about seems equally plain . If a thing is ...
... things . This seems so palpable and self - evident , that one wonders how it could ever be missed , and what is still more ex- traordinary , the practical part or way to bring the desired effect about seems equally plain . If a thing is ...
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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