Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114William Blackwood, 1873 |
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Page 58
... society of St John's is not only thoroughly British , but is as refined and agree- able as that of any other colony . If it is not large , the special commer- cial resources of the island render it unusually healthy . The Bar is well ...
... society of St John's is not only thoroughly British , but is as refined and agree- able as that of any other colony . If it is not large , the special commer- cial resources of the island render it unusually healthy . The Bar is well ...
Page 81
... Society is a theatre planned for their interest and to show them to the highest advantage . The heir of fame and name and fortune , every grace of per- son and manner sedulously cultivated , all the world indulgent , deferential ...
... Society is a theatre planned for their interest and to show them to the highest advantage . The heir of fame and name and fortune , every grace of per- son and manner sedulously cultivated , all the world indulgent , deferential ...
Page 82
... society from first to last , making youth everything till all the rest of life is mourned over as a falling - off , a weary task , the day after the fair . Youth catches the tone , shortening its own span , chattering about broken ...
... society from first to last , making youth everything till all the rest of life is mourned over as a falling - off , a weary task , the day after the fair . Youth catches the tone , shortening its own span , chattering about broken ...
Page 89
... society , or the street are his seniors . A man of sixty living ex- clusively with people of seventy or eighty would always feel young . We see this where an elderly daughter has the charge of parents , who engross her thoughts ; until ...
... society , or the street are his seniors . A man of sixty living ex- clusively with people of seventy or eighty would always feel young . We see this where an elderly daughter has the charge of parents , who engross her thoughts ; until ...
Page 90
... society . * a Mary Somerville is a still later and more signal example of the life- sustaining power of brain work . An acquaintance has recorded his impressions of her on her ninetieth birthday , when he visited her at Naples in 1870 ...
... society . * a Mary Somerville is a still later and more signal example of the life- sustaining power of brain work . An acquaintance has recorded his impressions of her on her ninetieth birthday , when he visited her at Naples in 1870 ...
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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.