The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 - English literature |
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... less competent he found me to vie with him , the more was he inclined to shine ; and , I believe , I established myself in his good opinion by the silent admiration in which I sat and listened . Since I was not better engaged , ( this ...
... less competent he found me to vie with him , the more was he inclined to shine ; and , I believe , I established myself in his good opinion by the silent admiration in which I sat and listened . Since I was not better engaged , ( this ...
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... less than a fortnight I was on a footing of intimacy in all the principal houses , and invited to every one of the din- ners and balls , which were daily given by one or other of the nobility . The narrowness of my finances for- bade my ...
... less than a fortnight I was on a footing of intimacy in all the principal houses , and invited to every one of the din- ners and balls , which were daily given by one or other of the nobility . The narrowness of my finances for- bade my ...
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... less Compact of adamant , though waters flow from it ? Firm hearts have moister eyes . They are aveng'd ; I wept not till they were - till the proud Had with his life - blood dyed my father's sword , In guerdon that he thinn'd my ...
... less Compact of adamant , though waters flow from it ? Firm hearts have moister eyes . They are aveng'd ; I wept not till they were - till the proud Had with his life - blood dyed my father's sword , In guerdon that he thinn'd my ...
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... less a forty - and - four - fold return . skate is indeed most excellent , and he who makes wry faces at the grey- beard of Fairntosh , “ may gravels round his bladder wrench ; " but the poetic curse will neither affect me nor mine ...
... less a forty - and - four - fold return . skate is indeed most excellent , and he who makes wry faces at the grey- beard of Fairntosh , “ may gravels round his bladder wrench ; " but the poetic curse will neither affect me nor mine ...
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... less than eleven editions of this very singular story that he had fallen in with on his route , all differ- ing from each other , in some respects , as to minor particulars , though the leading features , generally speaking , were much ...
... less than eleven editions of this very singular story that he had fallen in with on his route , all differ- ing from each other , in some respects , as to minor particulars , though the leading features , generally speaking , were much ...
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Page 62 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness.
Page 53 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 94 - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of riral economy.
Page 164 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
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Page 75 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 94 - ... who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
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Page 148 - ... Grouchy's corps. He replied, " certainly ; and I can now scarcely comprehend why it was a Prussian division and not that of Grouchy." I then took the liberty of asking, whether, if neither Grouchy nor the Prussians had arrived, it would not have been a drawn battle. Napoleon answered, "the English army would have been destroyed. They were defeated at mid-day. But accident, or more likely destiny, decided that Lord Wellington should gain it. I could scarcely believe that he would have given me...