Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 118William Blackwood, 1875 - England |
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... remained unspoken . The glare of the billiard - room , with its unromantic accessories of settees and cigars , acted like a dis- enchantment to recall our subaltern to the prosaic realities of everyday life ; but he found some compensa ...
... remained unspoken . The glare of the billiard - room , with its unromantic accessories of settees and cigars , acted like a dis- enchantment to recall our subaltern to the prosaic realities of everyday life ; but he found some compensa ...
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... remained the long morning to be passed in this sweet companionship , becoming each moment , as he felt , more friendly . " And I should be an ungrateful brute to find fault with my lot , " thought Yorke to himself . " I might have lived ...
... remained the long morning to be passed in this sweet companionship , becoming each moment , as he felt , more friendly . " And I should be an ungrateful brute to find fault with my lot , " thought Yorke to himself . " I might have lived ...
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... remained to be told . " Yes , of course , " answered his friend ; " he is engaged to Miss Cun- ningham , you know . They are to be married in a fortnight . ” When Mr Cunningham lost his young wife , which event happened just twenty ...
... remained to be told . " Yes , of course , " answered his friend ; " he is engaged to Miss Cun- ningham , you know . They are to be married in a fortnight . ” When Mr Cunningham lost his young wife , which event happened just twenty ...
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... remained in India ; although not a brilliant man , his industry , temper , and judgment had gained for him a con- siderable reputation in his service , and whenever he was on the point of taking a furlough , the transfer to some new ...
... remained in India ; although not a brilliant man , his industry , temper , and judgment had gained for him a con- siderable reputation in his service , and whenever he was on the point of taking a furlough , the transfer to some new ...
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... remained unanswered ; but it was with a sad heart that she tried to reconcile her duty to her father's wishes with this neglect of her rela- tive , and the struggle might have betrayed to herself the degree of interest with which he had ...
... remained unanswered ; but it was with a sad heart that she tried to reconcile her duty to her father's wishes with this neglect of her rela- tive , and the struggle might have betrayed to herself the degree of interest with which he had ...
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Page 333 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 343 - Alas that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal ! Woe is me ! Whence are we, and why are we ? of what scene The actors or spectators ? Great and mean Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow. As long as skies are blue and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. XXII. He will awake no more, oh never more ! 'Wake thou,' cried Misery, 'childless...
Page 304 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 341 - Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief with his remembered lay, And will no more reply to winds or fountains, Or amorous birds perched on the young green spray...
Page 345 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 677 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Page 680 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me.
Page 344 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 354 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 343 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.