The Scottish Review, Volume 27A. Gardner, 1896 - Scotland |
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Page 21 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 96 - God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 349 - She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom— is to die.
Page 343 - What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius ? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things : wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature ; it bears the name of Goethe.
Page 65 - If it be rout on the rear, The shoes of the Virgin to take you swiftly away. Charm of the Three in one on you From crown of head to sole of foot. And the charm of the pater of the seven paters A-going anti-sunwise and sunwise, sunwise and anti-sunwise, To protect you from behind, From wound and from slaying, Till the hour and time of your death.
Page 346 - I SAW thee weep — the big bright tear Came o'er that eye of blue; And then methought it did appear A violet dropping dew...
Page 259 - SIR, — We have taken and destroyed all the Spanish ships and vessels which were upon the coast, the number as per margin.
Page 397 - THE STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1905.
Page 98 - Curious; that word surviving, like the peak of a submerged world! The oldest Nottingham bargemen had believed in the God Aegir. Indeed our English blood too in good part is Danish, Norse...
Page 350 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die.