Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 25W. Tait, 1858 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 17 William Tait,Christian Isobel Johnstone Volledige weergave - 1850 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Anglo-Indian army Bank Bank of England beautiful Beethoven believe better bill British Burke Castletown Cawnpore character child Christian common crime dear death Dumaresque England existence eyes face fancy father favour feeling girl give Government hand Havelock heart Henry Havelock honour India James Stirling labour lady land Leoline live London looked Lord Hubert Lord John Russell Lucknow Lucy Makololo marriage married matter means Melanie ment mind morning mother murder Nana Sahib native nature never night opinion Oude Parliament party passed Penang perhaps Persia persons poor present Scotland seemed Sir Colin Campbell Sir James Outram smile society soul suppose talookdars thing thou thought tion town truth Viscount wife woman women words young
Populaire passages
Pagina 102 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Pagina 453 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Pagina 371 - But as regards any further indulgence which may be extended to them, and the condition in which they may hereafter be placed, they must throw themselves upon the justice and mercy of the British Government.
Pagina 458 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage ; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Pagina 458 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Pagina 233 - ... is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Pagina 163 - My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it. The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge. They would take neither the glow of passion nor the tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance. "What have you to...
Pagina 459 - When he finished, he requested Lord Arundel that the king would not suffer any libels to defame him after death — ' And now I have a long journey to go, and must take my leave.
Pagina 51 - But, though we had reached the island, and were within a few yards of the spot, a view from which would solve the whole problem, I believe that no one could perceive where the vast body of water went ; it seemed to lose itself in the earth, the opposite lip of the fissure into which it disappeared being only 80 feet distant.
Pagina 420 - I know not whether he came in the Hanover ship, But I know that he lies and listens mute In an ancient mansion's crannies and holes: Arsenic, arsenic, sure, would do it, Except that now we poison our babes, poor souls! It is all used up for that.