Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14Munroe and Francis, 1824 |
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... thought . The summer's pride , The gorgeous fields , and flowers of every tinct , Have mellow'd , and have wither'd . Silently , Across the aspect of terrestrial things , The chilling change hath pinion'd its wide flight , And all is ...
... thought . The summer's pride , The gorgeous fields , and flowers of every tinct , Have mellow'd , and have wither'd . Silently , Across the aspect of terrestrial things , The chilling change hath pinion'd its wide flight , And all is ...
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... thought less selfish - the tall pile , Whose roof is matted o'er with withering flowers , In its stern solitude ... Thoughts of light interest , vacant joyfulness , Fantastic visions ; but the dim aspect Of all earth's beauties ...
... thought less selfish - the tall pile , Whose roof is matted o'er with withering flowers , In its stern solitude ... Thoughts of light interest , vacant joyfulness , Fantastic visions ; but the dim aspect Of all earth's beauties ...
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... him greatly altered in mind as well as in person . His flesh had fallen away ; and he seemed to be consumed by some in- ternal strife of thought . It was evidently his own opinion that he was standing on the edge 12 The Dice .
... him greatly altered in mind as well as in person . His flesh had fallen away ; and he seemed to be consumed by some in- ternal strife of thought . It was evidently his own opinion that he was standing on the edge 12 The Dice .
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... thought so criminal - upon this question there is a profound silence . Nay , it seems even as if this trader in black arts had at that very point been overtaken by death : for he had broken off in the very middle of a word . The Lord ...
... thought so criminal - upon this question there is a profound silence . Nay , it seems even as if this trader in black arts had at that very point been overtaken by death : for he had broken off in the very middle of a word . The Lord ...
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... thought of a young bride whom you have betrayed , take care , I say , lest this thought should add to the bitterness of death when you come to kneel down on the sand - hill . However , I've given you advice suffi- cient : and have ...
... thought of a young bride whom you have betrayed , take care , I say , lest this thought should add to the bitterness of death when you come to kneel down on the sand - hill . However , I've given you advice suffi- cient : and have ...
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Page 100 - 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 102 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Page 103 - ... curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Page 102 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Page 209 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 166 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Page 103 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Page 166 - He may require to be repressed sometimes — aliquando sufflaminandus erat — but there is no raising her. You send her soup at dinner, and she begs to be helped — after the gentlemen. Mr. requests the honour of taking wine with her; she hesitates between Port and Madeira, and chooses the former — because he does. She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.
Page 43 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides...
Page 62 - If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.