The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 - English literature |
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... never seen any thing like him in the lower walks of life . In passing through Milan , I visited the celebrated cathedral there . It is a most superb edifice of marble , of a- mazing extent and richness , but un- finished for want of ...
... never seen any thing like him in the lower walks of life . In passing through Milan , I visited the celebrated cathedral there . It is a most superb edifice of marble , of a- mazing extent and richness , but un- finished for want of ...
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... the whip most copiously descend . Many in quarries are crushed by the falling in of the earth ; many too , de- scending into their vast depths , never again see the light . Persons are count ed by 22 [ Jan Political State of Algiers .
... the whip most copiously descend . Many in quarries are crushed by the falling in of the earth ; many too , de- scending into their vast depths , never again see the light . Persons are count ed by 22 [ Jan Political State of Algiers .
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... never meet with pity . Instead of loving and support- ing , they hate and envy each other . He who has suffered too much from the cruelty of men , and from an iron destiny , feels the source of compas- sionate tears dried up within him ...
... never meet with pity . Instead of loving and support- ing , they hate and envy each other . He who has suffered too much from the cruelty of men , and from an iron destiny , feels the source of compas- sionate tears dried up within him ...
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... never to return . A few sentences of repose thus thrown in between the horrible purposes which we had just seen plot- ted by Macbeth and his wife - and their still more horrible execution , give a momentary relief to our minds , which ...
... never to return . A few sentences of repose thus thrown in between the horrible purposes which we had just seen plot- ted by Macbeth and his wife - and their still more horrible execution , give a momentary relief to our minds , which ...
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... never have raised themselves above the level of hewers of wood , and drawers of water ; and those unas- cended steeps where alone true science is to be found , have never once entered their minds . Yet their vanity is harmless , and ...
... never have raised themselves above the level of hewers of wood , and drawers of water ; and those unas- cended steeps where alone true science is to be found , have never once entered their minds . Yet their vanity is harmless , and ...
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Page 223 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 367 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Page 63 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Page 462 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Page 569 - Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; To think what a long line of titles may follow The relics of him who died — friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the fun'ral array Of one whom they shunn'd in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket, to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles, to-morrow...
Page 462 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 569 - Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Page 163 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Page 341 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 341 - Rede as the bristles of a sowes eres. His nose-thirles blacke were and wide. A swerd and bokeler bare he by his side. His mouth as wide was as a forneis. He was a jangler, and a goliardeis, And that was most of sinne, and harlotries.