Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4William Blackwood, 1819 - England |
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... perhaps oppressed , and the memory of those barbarous times in which they were ruled by native reguli is long since faded into dimness and insignificance . The men themselves , moreover , are deficient , it may be , in some of those ...
... perhaps oppressed , and the memory of those barbarous times in which they were ruled by native reguli is long since faded into dimness and insignificance . The men themselves , moreover , are deficient , it may be , in some of those ...
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... perhaps overtake Ernestine . " " I a- gree to your proposal , " answered Sa- baoth , " for , after all , it is better to be a wanderer and vagabond than burnt . " We are concerned to leave our two Moors in the plains of Castille , but ...
... perhaps overtake Ernestine . " " I a- gree to your proposal , " answered Sa- baoth , " for , after all , it is better to be a wanderer and vagabond than burnt . " We are concerned to leave our two Moors in the plains of Castille , but ...
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... perhaps not to be discovered , at any rate for what appeared to me an endless period , in which I should per- haps expire of terror , and I longed for deep deep sleep , or to be as cold and insensate as the things around me . I tried to ...
... perhaps not to be discovered , at any rate for what appeared to me an endless period , in which I should per- haps expire of terror , and I longed for deep deep sleep , or to be as cold and insensate as the things around me . I tried to ...
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... perhaps be too much to blame the elegant scholar , to whom we are indebted for the book , for having done every thing he thought most likely to make the book ac- ceptable to that portion of the public for whom almost all books are in ...
... perhaps be too much to blame the elegant scholar , to whom we are indebted for the book , for having done every thing he thought most likely to make the book ac- ceptable to that portion of the public for whom almost all books are in ...
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... perhaps not very apposite illustration . The religion of a man , they say , is like the virtue of a wo- man , and may be destroyed by the slightest breath . This is not happy . We cannot , for our lives , perceive any resemblance ...
... perhaps not very apposite illustration . The religion of a man , they say , is like the virtue of a wo- man , and may be destroyed by the slightest breath . This is not happy . We cannot , for our lives , perceive any resemblance ...
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Page 260 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Page 260 - Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 261 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 160 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered 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 262 - He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 260 - And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being...
Page 479 - Her lips and cheeks seemed very pale and wan, But on her forehead and within her eye Lay beauty which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness ; — on the throne She leaned. The king, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown, With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Page 217 - 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 261 - 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.
Page 144 - 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..