Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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Page 40
... hour soon passed by ; three - quar- ters ; and the officer was growing impatient . He was about to sum- mon his prisoner to descend , and had mounted a few steps , when he was met by a peasant on the staircase , bearing on his head a ...
... hour soon passed by ; three - quar- ters ; and the officer was growing impatient . He was about to sum- mon his prisoner to descend , and had mounted a few steps , when he was met by a peasant on the staircase , bearing on his head a ...
Page 42
... hour , amid the cheers of men and boys ; and but for the intervention of two peasants who were coming in an opposite direction with a cart and oxen , and who probably thought that the runaway was a thief , or it may be something worse ...
... hour , amid the cheers of men and boys ; and but for the intervention of two peasants who were coming in an opposite direction with a cart and oxen , and who probably thought that the runaway was a thief , or it may be something worse ...
Page 44
... hours you shall be shot . " " So be it : it is a conso- lation to know that I die in a right- eous cause . " His arms ... hour the sergeant of the guard made his visit , and , to his consternation ( at least apparently ) , found that his ...
... hours you shall be shot . " " So be it : it is a conso- lation to know that I die in a right- eous cause . " His arms ... hour the sergeant of the guard made his visit , and , to his consternation ( at least apparently ) , found that his ...
Page 46
... hour for repose at hand , and the rations eaten , at a given signal those rough men assemble round their chief ... hours ' sleep , he is again on foot , gives the signal , when every man starts up ready to go whither- soever their chief ...
... hour for repose at hand , and the rations eaten , at a given signal those rough men assemble round their chief ... hours ' sleep , he is again on foot , gives the signal , when every man starts up ready to go whither- soever their chief ...
Page 56
... hour I was in the place , being hauled about the streets in carts . Most of the merchants combine a wholesale with a retail business : their front windows are stocked with miscellaneous goods , while their back premises open on ...
... hour I was in the place , being hauled about the streets in carts . Most of the merchants combine a wholesale with a retail business : their front windows are stocked with miscellaneous goods , while their back premises open on ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 261 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 273 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 347 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 75 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 80 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 359 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.