Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1817 |
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... remarkable feature of differ- ence between the ancient and modern dra- mas was the Chorus , a company of persons who might naturally be supposed present on the occasion , and interested in the events which were going on . The number of ...
... remarkable feature of differ- ence between the ancient and modern dra- mas was the Chorus , a company of persons who might naturally be supposed present on the occasion , and interested in the events which were going on . The number of ...
Page 43
... remarkable fact appears to have been regarded . Men of letters , while eagerly investigating the customs of Otaheite or Kamschatka , and losing their tempers in endless disputes about Gothic and Celtic antiquities , have wit- nessed ...
... remarkable fact appears to have been regarded . Men of letters , while eagerly investigating the customs of Otaheite or Kamschatka , and losing their tempers in endless disputes about Gothic and Celtic antiquities , have wit- nessed ...
Page 53
... remarkable evidence of the force of her gypsey habits and propensities . This woman , having been guilty of re- peated acts of theft , was condemned by Mr W. Scott , sheriff of that coun- ty , to imprisonment in the bridewell there , on ...
... remarkable evidence of the force of her gypsey habits and propensities . This woman , having been guilty of re- peated acts of theft , was condemned by Mr W. Scott , sheriff of that coun- ty , to imprisonment in the bridewell there , on ...
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... remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , render ed it impossible to mistake her for a moment ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no ...
... remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , render ed it impossible to mistake her for a moment ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no ...
Page 56
... remarkable personage of a very commanding pre- sence and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline -penetrating eyes , even in her nose- old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a ...
... remarkable personage of a very commanding pre- sence and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline -penetrating eyes , even in her nose- old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a ...
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Page 369 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 453 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 369 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 274 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 288 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains: They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 487 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 281 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now — " He hung his head ; each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence; In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop...
Page 282 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 290 - I do bear This punishment for both — that thou wilt be One of the blessed — and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence — in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality — A future like the past.
Page 506 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...