The Edinburgh Review, Volum 1A. and C. Black, 1814 |
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Pàgina 382 - O that I were where Helen lies! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, "Haste and come to me!
Pàgina 77 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky ; How beautiful is night...
Pàgina 385 - Is Keeper here on the Scottish side ? " And have they e'en ta'en him, Kinmont Willie, " Withouten either dread or fear ? " And forgotten that the bauld Buccleuch " Can back a steed, or shake a spear ? " O were there war between the lands, " As well I wot that there is none, " I would slight Carlisle castell high, " Tho' it were builded of marble stone.
Pàgina 382 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms burd * Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak nae mair : There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell Lee.
Pàgina 81 - Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text; reading the tropes and apostrophes into...
Pàgina 143 - I was confirmed in this opinion by a large building in the middle of the village, which I at first took for the half finished frame of an house. The ground-plot of it was fifty feet by forty-five; each end is formed by four stout posts, fixed perpendicularly in the ground. The corner ones are plain, and support a beam of the whole length, having three intermediate props on each side, but of a larger size, and eight or nine feet in height. The two centre posts, at each end, are two feet...
Pàgina 108 - Go, youth beloved ! in distant glades, "New friends, new hopes, new joys to find ! Yet sometimes deign, midst fairer maids, To think on her thou leav'st behind. Thy love, thy fate, dear youth, to share, Must never be my happy lot ; But thou may'st grant this humble prayer, — Forget me not, forget me not...
Pàgina 435 - The object of the present dissertation is not so much to propose any opinions which are absolutely new, as to refer some theories, which have been already advanced, to their original inventors, to support them by additional evidence, and to apply them to a great number of diversified facts, which have hitherto been buried in obscurity. Nor is it absolutely necessary in this instance to produce a single new experiment ; for of experiments there is already an ample store...
Pàgina 384 - He has ta'en the table wi' his hand, He garr'd the red wine spring on hie; 'Now Christ's curse on my head,' he said, 'But avenged of Lord Scroope I'll be!
Pàgina 60 - They constitute, at present, the most formidable conspiracy that has lately been formed against sound judgment in matters poetical ; and are entitled to a larger share of our censorial notice, than could be spared for an individual delinquent.