Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 26W. Blackwood, 1829 - England |
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... thought To be her heralds at your native cot ; She meets us , standing on this princely threshold , Thus sparing ... thoughts ! Thou know'st my earthly treasure is mine art , Nor do I prize it lightly - yet ' tis with me As with the ...
... thought To be her heralds at your native cot ; She meets us , standing on this princely threshold , Thus sparing ... thoughts ! Thou know'st my earthly treasure is mine art , Nor do I prize it lightly - yet ' tis with me As with the ...
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... thoughts of blood , Yet who shall say a son may not avenge A father ? Let him to impartial right Commit his cause - and ... thought to prove himself . On being asked why he should seek to delegate the pious office , he professes himself ...
... thoughts of blood , Yet who shall say a son may not avenge A father ? Let him to impartial right Commit his cause - and ... thought to prove himself . On being asked why he should seek to delegate the pious office , he professes himself ...
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... thought I was away , ye see , I dinna ken where I was ; and I was fear'd an ' confused , thinking I had lost my way . And then I came to an auld man , an ' he says to me , ' Is it the road to heaven that you are seeking , Aggie ? ' An ...
... thought I was away , ye see , I dinna ken where I was ; and I was fear'd an ' confused , thinking I had lost my way . And then I came to an auld man , an ' he says to me , ' Is it the road to heaven that you are seeking , Aggie ? ' An ...
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... thought , he had thrown from him when flying from the soldiers , to enable him to effect his escape . He was shot ... thoughts that she de- scribed as having passed through her heart . 1 . THE inhabitants of ancient . Italy gradually ...
... thought , he had thrown from him when flying from the soldiers , to enable him to effect his escape . He was shot ... thoughts that she de- scribed as having passed through her heart . 1 . THE inhabitants of ancient . Italy gradually ...
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... thoughts to where we parted last month , in order that we may again start fairly together upon our journey , and connect the incidents which are yet before us , with those which have already been narrated . I wish I might flatter myself ...
... thoughts to where we parted last month , in order that we may again start fairly together upon our journey , and connect the incidents which are yet before us , with those which have already been narrated . I wish I might flatter myself ...
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Page 591 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 165 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 585 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 199 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 452 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 452 - It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value is the lines printed in Italics ; it is equally obvious, that, except in the rhyme, and in the use of the single word
Page 451 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Page 450 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 553 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 191 - Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.