The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volum 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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Pàgina 33
covered resources , where a General , less able , or less determined , would not have suspected even their possibility . " It is really delightful to find such compliment paid by a Russian officer to the greatest enemy his coun- try ...
covered resources , where a General , less able , or less determined , would not have suspected even their possibility . " It is really delightful to find such compliment paid by a Russian officer to the greatest enemy his coun- try ...
Pàgina 39
... less time than trades - folk usually reckon upon ; dis- posing of the walks and avocations by private contract , like newsmen and milk- mongers , and then retiring from business altogether - stories that induce many good- hearted people ...
... less time than trades - folk usually reckon upon ; dis- posing of the walks and avocations by private contract , like newsmen and milk- mongers , and then retiring from business altogether - stories that induce many good- hearted people ...
Pàgina 42
... less will go down , -Ma- dam her tea , supper , card , and gossip- ing parties , balls , routes , and the devil knows what . Then begin their sorrows to bud . Drunken nights beget dry mornings , surfeit sickness , indolence indi ...
... less will go down , -Ma- dam her tea , supper , card , and gossip- ing parties , balls , routes , and the devil knows what . Then begin their sorrows to bud . Drunken nights beget dry mornings , surfeit sickness , indolence indi ...
Pàgina 64
... less in size , and more infan- tine in mind , and had his connection with the nursery - maid become closer as he approached to majority , then indeed we might perhaps have passed without much censure the marking out to our notice of a ...
... less in size , and more infan- tine in mind , and had his connection with the nursery - maid become closer as he approached to majority , then indeed we might perhaps have passed without much censure the marking out to our notice of a ...
Pàgina 65
... less Active ; but my pulse beat not , and mine eye Seem'd death - like fix'd , and glaz'd , to those standing by . They wrapt me in my white funereal shroud , And clos'd my useless eyes , then gently drew VOL . XVI . The death - robes o ...
... less Active ; but my pulse beat not , and mine eye Seem'd death - like fix'd , and glaz'd , to those standing by . They wrapt me in my white funereal shroud , And clos'd my useless eyes , then gently drew VOL . XVI . The death - robes o ...
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Pàgina 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Pàgina 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Pàgina 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Pàgina 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Pàgina 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Pàgina 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Pàgina 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Pàgina 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Pàgina 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o