Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33James Fraser, 1846 |
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... happy words of a late naturalist , the repose of wearied nature seems to mark the decline and termination of existence in many things that ani- mated the green and joyous months of summer . The rare note of a bird is feeble and ...
... happy words of a late naturalist , the repose of wearied nature seems to mark the decline and termination of existence in many things that ani- mated the green and joyous months of summer . The rare note of a bird is feeble and ...
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... happy thing for us when the chimes of the new year have called us up into the steeple before many of them have been rung in . It is always a delightful reflec- tion to feel that we may shape our future conduct by our past . When , at ...
... happy thing for us when the chimes of the new year have called us up into the steeple before many of them have been rung in . It is always a delightful reflec- tion to feel that we may shape our future conduct by our past . When , at ...
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... to the melancholy roar of the Virgilian gate - keeper . We know where to gather the golden bough that shall ensure a safe and happy passage . This once fixed upon the threshold of darkness 1846. ] 5 Our Chimes for the New Year .
... to the melancholy roar of the Virgilian gate - keeper . We know where to gather the golden bough that shall ensure a safe and happy passage . This once fixed upon the threshold of darkness 1846. ] 5 Our Chimes for the New Year .
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... shore of the future . Happy for us if we leave behind us this brief epitaph , - " Proved by the ends of being , to have been . " We are inclined to believe that at- tention has never 6 [ January , Our Chimes for the New Year .
... shore of the future . Happy for us if we leave behind us this brief epitaph , - " Proved by the ends of being , to have been . " We are inclined to believe that at- tention has never 6 [ January , Our Chimes for the New Year .
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... happy results , be guided and controlled by an in- fluence more potent than itself ; for if it once establish an ascendancy over the mind particularly in youth , which is most open to its insidious advances the whole moral being of the ...
... happy results , be guided and controlled by an in- fluence more potent than itself ; for if it once establish an ascendancy over the mind particularly in youth , which is most open to its insidious advances the whole moral being of the ...
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Page 301 - Malcom, Land, rediv. INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ALLUDED TO IN THE SKETCH Here lyes the Loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his Duchess his second wife, by whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Page 445 - Mr. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. "Pray give me leave, Sir: — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
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Page 498 - So here they fall to strife ; With one another they did fight About the children's life : And he that was of mildest mood Did slay the other there, Within an unfrequented wood...
Page 575 - For, to make myself absolutely dead in a poetical capacity, my resolution at present is, never to exercise any more that faculty. It is, I confess, but seldom seen that the poet dies before the man ; for, when we once fall in love with that bewitching art, we do not use to court it as a mistress, but marry it as a wife, and take it for better or worse, as an inseparable companion of our whole life.
Page 62 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Page 134 - God is glorified in the sun and moon, in the rare fabric of the honeycombs, in the discipline of bees, in the economy of pismires, in the little houses of birds, in the curiosity of an eye, God being pleased to delight in those little images and reflexes of Himself from those pretty mirrors...
Page 292 - For it was not amorous love, I never was infected therewith, it is a disease, or a passion, or both, I only know by relation, not by experience ; neither could title, wealth, power, or person entice me to love.
Page 259 - The increase and expansion of the Christian creed and ritual, and the variations which have attended the process in the case of individual writers and churches, are the necessary attendants on any philosophy or polity which takes possession of the intellect and heart, and has had any wide or extended dominion.