Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 45W. Blackwood, 1839 |
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... least , of free- dom and heroism . Is this not worth while ? " " If so , it can only be because life itself is nothing . But to beings such as we nothings are mighty . Knowledge , imagination , freedom , courage , power , -these may be ...
... least , of free- dom and heroism . Is this not worth while ? " " If so , it can only be because life itself is nothing . But to beings such as we nothings are mighty . Knowledge , imagination , freedom , courage , power , -these may be ...
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... least given you the costliest of boons , truth , which his future failures cannot deprive you of . But when you see bullies , syco- phants , flatterers , liars , spaniels , apes , peacocks , jewel - snouted swine , -men who gorge ...
... least given you the costliest of boons , truth , which his future failures cannot deprive you of . But when you see bullies , syco- phants , flatterers , liars , spaniels , apes , peacocks , jewel - snouted swine , -men who gorge ...
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... least till years and events should have altered our relative positions . I kept my vow . It was but one of many services that your mother rendered me at a time when most of my acquaintances were only staring at me , or shrinking from me ...
... least till years and events should have altered our relative positions . I kept my vow . It was but one of many services that your mother rendered me at a time when most of my acquaintances were only staring at me , or shrinking from me ...
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... least I trust you cannot - and it would be useless to describe it . This was three years ago . The shock turned my hair grey , and drove me from among mankind . The time which has since passed has not been more than enough to restore me ...
... least I trust you cannot - and it would be useless to describe it . This was three years ago . The shock turned my hair grey , and drove me from among mankind . The time which has since passed has not been more than enough to restore me ...
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... least replace all that you must lose in me . Agreeable and in- structive occupations you cannot want . In particular , I would recommend to you the art of lithographic drawing , in which I think you likely to excel , and which seems ...
... least replace all that you must lose in me . Agreeable and in- structive occupations you cannot want . In particular , I would recommend to you the art of lithographic drawing , in which I think you likely to excel , and which seems ...
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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.