The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volum 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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Pàgina 13
... course will hold , Leap o'er the fence , and wander from the fold . -Enough - I check my moralising strain ; For shepherds watch , and parsons preach in vain . Dame Wilmot was a farmer's widow meek , The rose of summer faded on her ...
... course will hold , Leap o'er the fence , and wander from the fold . -Enough - I check my moralising strain ; For shepherds watch , and parsons preach in vain . Dame Wilmot was a farmer's widow meek , The rose of summer faded on her ...
Pàgina 18
... course , through trackless fields afar . Love in his head , and Ovid on his tongue , His passion in poetic strains was sung ; The song display'd his memory's treasur'd store , A splendid mass of mythologic lore ; And there , above each ...
... course , through trackless fields afar . Love in his head , and Ovid on his tongue , His passion in poetic strains was sung ; The song display'd his memory's treasur'd store , A splendid mass of mythologic lore ; And there , above each ...
Pàgina 28
... course , we shall discharge our duty more accep- tably , than if we presented to the public the most ingenious and elabo- rate discussion which even the Prince of Critics himself could write on the subject . The first scene - the ...
... course , we shall discharge our duty more accep- tably , than if we presented to the public the most ingenious and elabo- rate discussion which even the Prince of Critics himself could write on the subject . The first scene - the ...
Pàgina 35
... course , turns on the ap- proaching battle , and opinions , high- ly characteristic of the different Eng- lish Nobles , are respectively given on the condition and leaders of the Scottish Host . Among other circum- stances , the King ...
... course , turns on the ap- proaching battle , and opinions , high- ly characteristic of the different Eng- lish Nobles , are respectively given on the condition and leaders of the Scottish Host . Among other circum- stances , the King ...
Pàgina 41
... course of training , dismissed all man- ner of callipash from his table , and strictly adheres to a skate and whis- ky diet , the most effective of all reno- vators . Will friend Killigrew have the goodness to send him another wing ...
... course of training , dismissed all man- ner of callipash from his table , and strictly adheres to a skate and whis- ky diet , the most effective of all reno- vators . Will friend Killigrew have the goodness to send him another wing ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 62 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness.
Pàgina 53 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pàgina 94 - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of riral economy.
Pàgina 164 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Pàgina 609 - Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester, from the beginning of the Civill Warre betweene King and Parliament, to the Removall of Colonel Massie from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces.
Pàgina 120 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Pàgina 75 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Pàgina 94 - ... who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Pàgina 250 - An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains; Especially of Those Found in the British Strata: Intended to Aid the Student in His Inquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils and Their Connection With the Formation of the Earth (London, 1822).
Pàgina 148 - ... Grouchy's corps. He replied, " certainly ; and I can now scarcely comprehend why it was a Prussian division and not that of Grouchy." I then took the liberty of asking, whether, if neither Grouchy nor the Prussians had arrived, it would not have been a drawn battle. Napoleon answered, "the English army would have been destroyed. They were defeated at mid-day. But accident, or more likely destiny, decided that Lord Wellington should gain it. I could scarcely believe that he would have given me...