The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 88Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 |
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Pagina 18
... courts would echo to the still small voice of truth alone ; yet even here party rage pre- dominates with the same violence as in the courts of Parliament , in the meet- ings of a county , or in the councils of a borough . Such is the ...
... courts would echo to the still small voice of truth alone ; yet even here party rage pre- dominates with the same violence as in the courts of Parliament , in the meet- ings of a county , or in the councils of a borough . Such is the ...
Pagina 20
... court was most flattering , and , by a letter of his own , written subse- quently to that event , appears to have made a deep impression on his sensi- tive and grateful mind . He was im- mediately presented to Cardinal Riche- lieu , and ...
... court was most flattering , and , by a letter of his own , written subse- quently to that event , appears to have made a deep impression on his sensi- tive and grateful mind . He was im- mediately presented to Cardinal Riche- lieu , and ...
Pagina 21
... courts is generally supposed to be peculiarly noxious . Yet , in s spite of this high encourage- ment , he complains bitterly of the usage he met with in being bound down to trifling and insignificant tasks , in the performance of which ...
... courts is generally supposed to be peculiarly noxious . Yet , in s spite of this high encourage- ment , he complains bitterly of the usage he met with in being bound down to trifling and insignificant tasks , in the performance of which ...
Pagina 26
... court- ed display , and yet every thing might bear the closest inspection ; and the spectator , in surrendering himself to the overmastering emotions generated by the piece before him , was first ren- dered sensible of the magical power ...
... court- ed display , and yet every thing might bear the closest inspection ; and the spectator , in surrendering himself to the overmastering emotions generated by the piece before him , was first ren- dered sensible of the magical power ...
Pagina 59
... Court and Academy of Turin to the British youth , observed , that they served as an introduction to the man- ners and language of Italy . This is one of many instances of his false , flimsy , and pompous work , of his ut- ter ignorance ...
... Court and Academy of Turin to the British youth , observed , that they served as an introduction to the man- ners and language of Italy . This is one of many instances of his false , flimsy , and pompous work , of his ut- ter ignorance ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 56 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Pagina 156 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Pagina 502 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Pagina 208 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Pagina 207 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Pagina 516 - A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter, how or where ! A fig, &c.
Pagina 364 - My dear, I will not let you come till the end of May, or beginning of June, because, before that time my green-house will not be ready to receive us, and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us. When the plants go out, we go in. I line it with mats, and spread the floor with mats ; and there you shall sit, with a bed of mignonette at your side, and a hedge of honeysuckles, roses, and jasmine ; and I will make you a bouquet of myrtle every day.
Pagina 56 - Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star, On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.
Pagina 364 - You boast indeed of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
Pagina 303 - ... written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humour or occasions permitted ; and "at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.