Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 41W. Blackwood & Sons, 1837 - Scotland |
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... political cir- cumstances under which the public life of Lord Wellington may be said to have commenced . To the deve- lopement of talents like his they were highly favourable , but not so to the advancement of imbecile mediocrity . It ...
... political cir- cumstances under which the public life of Lord Wellington may be said to have commenced . To the deve- lopement of talents like his they were highly favourable , but not so to the advancement of imbecile mediocrity . It ...
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... political horizon was dark beyond prece- dent . The Sultan had largely in- creased his army , and was a formi- dable enemy . The French in Egypt were in the full career of success . Ze- maun Shah threatened invasion from the north . The ...
... political horizon was dark beyond prece- dent . The Sultan had largely in- creased his army , and was a formi- dable enemy . The French in Egypt were in the full career of success . Ze- maun Shah threatened invasion from the north . The ...
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... political institu- tions of the English nation , * which Mrs Sarah Austin has translated for the be- nefit of such of her countrymen , as not knowing , need to be made acquainted with themselves . No small portion of the mass , we ...
... political institu- tions of the English nation , * which Mrs Sarah Austin has translated for the be- nefit of such of her countrymen , as not knowing , need to be made acquainted with themselves . No small portion of the mass , we ...
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... politics of the French metropolis , as he found them , during a residence of five months , four of which immediately ... political opinions as they re- fer to the past or the present , to Ger many , perhaps we should say Prussia , and ...
... politics of the French metropolis , as he found them , during a residence of five months , four of which immediately ... political opinions as they re- fer to the past or the present , to Ger many , perhaps we should say Prussia , and ...
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... political confession of faith , as also what may be called a prophetic fore- sight of the results of the Three Glorious Days to French liberty , the writer of which we should never have conceived obnoxious to the Radical or Reform fever ...
... political confession of faith , as also what may be called a prophetic fore- sight of the results of the Three Glorious Days to French liberty , the writer of which we should never have conceived obnoxious to the Radical or Reform fever ...
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Page 439 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 169 - Toss the light ball — bestride the stick, (I knew so many cakes would make him sick !) With fancies buoyant as the thistle down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown.) Thou pretty opening rose...
Page 520 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 439 - Twas in the calm and silent night ! The senator of haughty Rome Impatient urged his chariot's flight, From lordly revel rolling home : Triumphal arches, gleaming, swell His breast with thoughts of boundless sway ; What recked the Roman what befell A paltry province far away, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago?
Page 439 - How keen the stars, his only thought — The air how calm, and cold, and thin, In the solemn midnight Centuries ago ! Oh, strange indifference ! low and high Drowsed over common joys and cares ; The earth was still — but knew not why The world was listening, unawares. How calm a moment may precede One that shall thrill the world for ever ! To that still moment none would heed, Man's doom was linked no more to sever...
Page 520 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 439 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 520 - O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 400 - Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Page 10 - I had the honour to lend you the other night at play; and which I shall be much obliged to you if you will let me have some time either to-day or to-morrow. I am sir, Your most obedient, most humble servant, GEORGE TRENT.