The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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... Letter . " The lines were fill'd with many a ten- der thing , All the impassion'd heart's fond com- muning . " I took the scroll : I could not brook An eye to look on it , save mine ; I could not bear another's look To dwell upon one ...
... Letter . " The lines were fill'd with many a ten- der thing , All the impassion'd heart's fond com- muning . " I took the scroll : I could not brook An eye to look on it , save mine ; I could not bear another's look To dwell upon one ...
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... letter , examining every well - known character , and forming an opinion concerning your health , from their regularity , before I broke the seal . It is a happiness , an exquisite hap- piness , to receive such a letter ; but it is a ...
... letter , examining every well - known character , and forming an opinion concerning your health , from their regularity , before I broke the seal . It is a happiness , an exquisite hap- piness , to receive such a letter ; but it is a ...
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... letter wholly with complaints , I will mention a few of my enjoy- ments , leaving you to form your own opinion , whether they balance my afflictions . Duty and necessity ob- lige me to be up every morning al- most with the sun ; this ...
... letter wholly with complaints , I will mention a few of my enjoy- ments , leaving you to form your own opinion , whether they balance my afflictions . Duty and necessity ob- lige me to be up every morning al- most with the sun ; this ...
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... letter has ex- tended to more than one , I think I cannot do better than transcribe an- other of Mr D - ' s ballads . I am sor- ry that it is not complete ; but he tells me that he never heard it entire , though he once could have ...
... letter has ex- tended to more than one , I think I cannot do better than transcribe an- other of Mr D - ' s ballads . I am sor- ry that it is not complete ; but he tells me that he never heard it entire , though he once could have ...
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... letters of the enclitical que are almost invariably represented by the mark which we now call semicolon . A dash drawn above a word denotes the omission of some of its medial letters , as Jacus for Jacobus , ecclia for ecclesia . This ...
... letters of the enclitical que are almost invariably represented by the mark which we now call semicolon . A dash drawn above a word denotes the omission of some of its medial letters , as Jacus for Jacobus , ecclia for ecclesia . This ...
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Page 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Page 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Page 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Page 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Page 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Page 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o