Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 45W. Blackwood, 1839 |
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... probably the per- son under whose auspices the collec- tion was formed . The degree of interest and importance attaching to any collection of Scotch music made in the beginning of the 17th century , may not , at first sight , be ...
... probably the per- son under whose auspices the collec- tion was formed . The degree of interest and importance attaching to any collection of Scotch music made in the beginning of the 17th century , may not , at first sight , be ...
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... probably know what to answer . But pray , if the working men help you , what are you prepared to do for them ? " " As to that , you must see , between ourselves , I can say nothing . I must go with my party . But you may tell them , as ...
... probably know what to answer . But pray , if the working men help you , what are you prepared to do for them ? " " As to that , you must see , between ourselves , I can say nothing . I must go with my party . But you may tell them , as ...
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... . How , hereafter , I shall exert them , I know not , but probably by speech and wri- ting for humane and moral purposes , rather than by any interference in what is called politics . I see too many sticking 1839. ] 25 The Onyx Ring .
... . How , hereafter , I shall exert them , I know not , but probably by speech and wri- ting for humane and moral purposes , rather than by any interference in what is called politics . I see too many sticking 1839. ] 25 The Onyx Ring .
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... probably more ancient injury , for it had been shorn of a leg , and had re- ceived as a substitute only a wooden member , resembling the original in little else than length , as to which the modern supporter had perhaps the ad- vantage ...
... probably more ancient injury , for it had been shorn of a leg , and had re- ceived as a substitute only a wooden member , resembling the original in little else than length , as to which the modern supporter had perhaps the ad- vantage ...
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... probably , is more entirely and profusely cultivated , was not well worth all that I had ever known of headlong passion , of flaming VOL , XLV . NO , CCLXXIX , imagination , and dizzy self - abandon- ment . I often shrank from saying ...
... probably , is more entirely and profusely cultivated , was not well worth all that I had ever known of headlong passion , of flaming VOL , XLV . NO , CCLXXIX , imagination , and dizzy self - abandon- ment . I often shrank from saying ...
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Page 311 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a...
Page 313 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 310 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 483 - From Greenland's icy mountains ; From India's coral strand ; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river ; From many a palmy plain ; They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 311 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 180 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 525 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 130 - ... twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 130 - A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?
Page 130 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.