Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 57. köideW. Blackwood & Sons, 1845 |
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Page 45
... English ambassador . The outward appear- ance of our quarters , when we arrived , was not prepossessing ; but the state of dirt of the best room could hardly have been anticipated . Its equal - I speak advisedly - could not be found out ...
... English ambassador . The outward appear- ance of our quarters , when we arrived , was not prepossessing ; but the state of dirt of the best room could hardly have been anticipated . Its equal - I speak advisedly - could not be found out ...
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... English gentleman ? " Usefulness first , then , and ornament afterwards ; think first of what you actually want for your health or comfort ; cut your coat upon that pattern , clap on your lace afterwards ; but enrich it only to improve ...
... English gentleman ? " Usefulness first , then , and ornament afterwards ; think first of what you actually want for your health or comfort ; cut your coat upon that pattern , clap on your lace afterwards ; but enrich it only to improve ...
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... English army should ever plant its foot upon the Continent with less than fifty thou- sand men on its muster - roll . The duke's being put at the head of your troops - only a division after all- seems to me the only wise thing that has ...
... English army should ever plant its foot upon the Continent with less than fifty thou- sand men on its muster - roll . The duke's being put at the head of your troops - only a division after all- seems to me the only wise thing that has ...
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... English House does not want orators . One on a side is quite enough . They are like the gold plate on a sideboard ; it is well to show that we have such things , for the honour of our establishment ; but no one thinks of making use of ...
... English House does not want orators . One on a side is quite enough . They are like the gold plate on a sideboard ; it is well to show that we have such things , for the honour of our establishment ; but no one thinks of making use of ...
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... English cabinet and the Irish party as a scapegoat for the mistakes of the one , and a target for the shot of the other . But the chief trial of temper was in the House of Commons . Op- position in Ireland never had a list of more ...
... English cabinet and the Irish party as a scapegoat for the mistakes of the one , and a target for the shot of the other . But the chief trial of temper was in the House of Commons . Op- position in Ireland never had a list of more ...
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Page 126 - For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 386 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Page 528 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 124 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 503 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty, not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the groundwork, as he pleases.
Page 388 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
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Page 362 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 614 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 391 - Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Muses upward to their spring.