The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Volumes 15-18 |
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Page 48
The Stranger evanish'd , and left me alone , Beneath the great load of life's sorrows to groan ; When raising again my sad eyes from the ground , And looking once more on the landscape around , I saw the grim figure of Time drawing near ...
The Stranger evanish'd , and left me alone , Beneath the great load of life's sorrows to groan ; When raising again my sad eyes from the ground , And looking once more on the landscape around , I saw the grim figure of Time drawing near ...
Page 51
I once saw an Aurora of a uniform blue colour slow- ly rolling from the northern quarter of a cloudless sky , and extending even beyond the zenith ; occasionally its volume expanded so as to involve al- most the whole heavens ...
I once saw an Aurora of a uniform blue colour slow- ly rolling from the northern quarter of a cloudless sky , and extending even beyond the zenith ; occasionally its volume expanded so as to involve al- most the whole heavens ...
Page 62
... of activity and industry which leads them to the perpetra- tion of all manner of literary crimes , are sure to prove abundantly steady and unweariable in their operations , when once they are fairly set upon a literary course .
... of activity and industry which leads them to the perpetra- tion of all manner of literary crimes , are sure to prove abundantly steady and unweariable in their operations , when once they are fairly set upon a literary course .
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Their old house has been pulled down , and a field of corn is at this moment waving where ' once their garden smiled . ' " Peace be to their ashes ! What can you tell me of the Arnots ? Ed- ward was the cleverest boy at school ...
Their old house has been pulled down , and a field of corn is at this moment waving where ' once their garden smiled . ' " Peace be to their ashes ! What can you tell me of the Arnots ? Ed- ward was the cleverest boy at school ...
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It silenced , at once , any faint whis- perings of modesty , and brought into full play all the conceit of a little mind , puffed up , almost to bursting , with the consciousness of its own powers . Spontaneously , therefore , and with ...
It silenced , at once , any faint whis- perings of modesty , and brought into full play all the conceit of a little mind , puffed up , almost to bursting , with the consciousness of its own powers . Spontaneously , therefore , and with ...
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