Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 118William Blackwood, 1875 - England |
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Page 78
... officers one day , and we had some very fine sport , following the birds on horseback , and being much amused by a large black vulture - a pirate bird - which once or twice made its appearance just when the falcon had hunted down its ...
... officers one day , and we had some very fine sport , following the birds on horseback , and being much amused by a large black vulture - a pirate bird - which once or twice made its appearance just when the falcon had hunted down its ...
Page 79
... officers when I saw it ; but then it was pretty well beyond the reach of the so - called philan- thropic influences which have weakened and are destroying our position in India . The officers were free to rule their men ; and the con ...
... officers when I saw it ; but then it was pretty well beyond the reach of the so - called philan- thropic influences which have weakened and are destroying our position in India . The officers were free to rule their men ; and the con ...
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... officers were relatively unimportant details , almost un- worthy of brilliant conquerors . The warfare in Algeria aided to consoli- date this impression ; and , though the experience gained before Sebas- topol was not altogether ...
... officers were relatively unimportant details , almost un- worthy of brilliant conquerors . The warfare in Algeria aided to consoli- date this impression ; and , though the experience gained before Sebas- topol was not altogether ...
Page 129
... officers is far superior , as a whole , to that of the Ministry which presides over them . The majority of the officers have known the humiliation of defeat , and have keenly felt that they must work to wipe it out ; a good many of them ...
... officers is far superior , as a whole , to that of the Ministry which presides over them . The majority of the officers have known the humiliation of defeat , and have keenly felt that they must work to wipe it out ; a good many of them ...
Page 130
... officers , of course , expected three years ago ( like most other people ) that , after the tremendous lesson France had had , a new era was be- ginning that old abuses would be suppressed , that old absurdities would be abandoned ...
... officers , of course , expected three years ago ( like most other people ) that , after the tremendous lesson France had had , a new era was be- ginning that old abuses would be suppressed , that old absurdities would be abandoned ...
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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.