The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 - English literature |
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... published , which is one of their recommendations . They contain the natural expression of the feelings and observations of a well informed traveller on a most interesting route , and appeared to the friend to whom they were addressed ...
... published , which is one of their recommendations . They contain the natural expression of the feelings and observations of a well informed traveller on a most interesting route , and appeared to the friend to whom they were addressed ...
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... publish an Orni- thologia Zetlandica , or Natural His- tory of the birds of the Shetland Is- lands . Such a work , well executed , in the style , for example , of the Fauna Græn- landica of Fabricius , would prove a valuable addition to ...
... publish an Orni- thologia Zetlandica , or Natural His- tory of the birds of the Shetland Is- lands . Such a work , well executed , in the style , for example , of the Fauna Græn- landica of Fabricius , would prove a valuable addition to ...
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... publish- ed . I am , Sir , your obedient ser- vant , Jan. 6 , 1818 . W. D. gar- -WE are not altogether free of treachery in this country , though I believe our troops are not so much poisoned as I am afraid they are in England ; but the ...
... publish- ed . I am , Sir , your obedient ser- vant , Jan. 6 , 1818 . W. D. gar- -WE are not altogether free of treachery in this country , though I believe our troops are not so much poisoned as I am afraid they are in England ; but the ...
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... published at Boston in America , the Report of a Commit- tee of the Linnean Society of New England , relative to a large marine animal , shaped like a serpent , repeat- edly seen near Cape Ann , Massachu- sets , in August last ( 1817 ) ...
... published at Boston in America , the Report of a Commit- tee of the Linnean Society of New England , relative to a large marine animal , shaped like a serpent , repeat- edly seen near Cape Ann , Massachu- sets , in August last ( 1817 ) ...
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... published a small volume in as peculiar circum- stances as poet was ever placed . He had been sent to Edinburgh with a flock of sheep for sale . He accidentally ar- rived two days before the market , and not knowing how to employ ...
... published a small volume in as peculiar circum- stances as poet was ever placed . He had been sent to Edinburgh with a flock of sheep for sale . He accidentally ar- rived two days before the market , and not knowing how to employ ...
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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.