Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... nation ; that the pure- minded matrons and high - spirited men of Ireland will pause ere they authorise the world to seek the reflec- tion of their character in the gaudy impurities and tinsel Jacobinism of this deluded poet . The truth ...
... nation ; that the pure- minded matrons and high - spirited men of Ireland will pause ere they authorise the world to seek the reflec- tion of their character in the gaudy impurities and tinsel Jacobinism of this deluded poet . The truth ...
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... nations , but they are strong , ardent , passionate , and , in the hands of one worthy to deal with them , might ... nation . The " Exile of Erin , " and the " O'Connor's Child " of Camp- bell , are worth more to Ireland than all the ...
... nations , but they are strong , ardent , passionate , and , in the hands of one worthy to deal with them , might ... nation . The " Exile of Erin , " and the " O'Connor's Child " of Camp- bell , are worth more to Ireland than all the ...
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... nation has pro- duced , does yet , I am sorry to say it , retain too much of its barbarous origi- nal to adapt itself to musical composi- tion . I by no means wish to have been born any thing but an English- man ; yet I should rejoice ...
... nation has pro- duced , does yet , I am sorry to say it , retain too much of its barbarous origi- nal to adapt itself to musical composi- tion . I by no means wish to have been born any thing but an English- man ; yet I should rejoice ...
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... nation that has de- generated , than to introduce it in one , where , as yet , it has never flour- ished . You are generous enough to wish , and sanguine enough to foresee , that it shall one day flourish in Eng- land . I too must wish ...
... nation that has de- generated , than to introduce it in one , where , as yet , it has never flour- ished . You are generous enough to wish , and sanguine enough to foresee , that it shall one day flourish in Eng- land . I too must wish ...
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... nation , and the interest is paid out of the taxes . It is obvious , however , that few per- sons would be disposed to lend money on the condition of never being allow- ed to demand repayment , even though they were quite certain of ...
... nation , and the interest is paid out of the taxes . It is obvious , however , that few per- sons would be disposed to lend money on the condition of never being allow- ed to demand repayment , even though they were quite certain of ...
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Page 54 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 257 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.
Page 256 - My Friend! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and chearful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Page 259 - That oaten pipe of hers is mute, Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers: This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Page 213 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 142 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..
Page 146 - I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 158 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 147 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 257 - Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves. Farewell, farewell, the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.