The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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Pagina 12
... character , -were they all as good , they would not do for this world . I shall be exceeding- ly ill off without him , but necessity overrules every thing - even the wishes of a good heart . I wish you knew this man . I have never seen ...
... character , -were they all as good , they would not do for this world . I shall be exceeding- ly ill off without him , but necessity overrules every thing - even the wishes of a good heart . I wish you knew this man . I have never seen ...
Pagina 23
... character , that conta gious contempt which is felt even by him who is the object of it ; that con- fession of inferiority , which force a- lone extorts from weakness ; that drying up of the heart which shuts it against pity , when our ...
... character , that conta gious contempt which is felt even by him who is the object of it ; that con- fession of inferiority , which force a- lone extorts from weakness ; that drying up of the heart which shuts it against pity , when our ...
Pagina 34
remain sufficient data for fixing a new generic character . It may here be noticed , that a well- informed clergyman of the church of Scotland , the Reverend Donald Mac- lean , minister of Small Isles , commu- nicated to the Wernerian ...
remain sufficient data for fixing a new generic character . It may here be noticed , that a well- informed clergyman of the church of Scotland , the Reverend Donald Mac- lean , minister of Small Isles , commu- nicated to the Wernerian ...
Pagina 39
... character almost intuitive , he saw , under the unpre- tending simplicity of the shepherd , a mind of strong originality , and capa- ble of extraordinary things . He ad- mired him to enthusiasm , and roused him to a sense of his own ...
... character almost intuitive , he saw , under the unpre- tending simplicity of the shepherd , a mind of strong originality , and capa- ble of extraordinary things . He ad- mired him to enthusiasm , and roused him to a sense of his own ...
Pagina 41
... character as they had ex- pected to find him , and most readers are at first a little disappointed , to meet with less of that poetical colour- ing and sentiment thrown over his descriptions of nature , and of human life , which are so ...
... character as they had ex- pected to find him , and most readers are at first a little disappointed , to meet with less of that poetical colour- ing and sentiment thrown over his descriptions of nature , and of human life , which are so ...
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Pagina 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
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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."!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 341 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Pagina 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.