The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, 84. köideArchibald Constable and Company, 1819 |
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... ness of the explanation by a very sim- ple experiment . " I placed , on several clear and still nights , 10 grains of wool upon the middle of a painted board 4 feet long , 2 feet wide , and 1 inch thick , elevated 4 feet above the gress ...
... ness of the explanation by a very sim- ple experiment . " I placed , on several clear and still nights , 10 grains of wool upon the middle of a painted board 4 feet long , 2 feet wide , and 1 inch thick , elevated 4 feet above the gress ...
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... ness and soften into distance , draw- ing the soul from earth to heaven , and making it partaker of the music of the spheres , or he who remains deaf to the summons , and remarks that it is an allegorical conceit ? - Which would Handel ...
... ness and soften into distance , draw- ing the soul from earth to heaven , and making it partaker of the music of the spheres , or he who remains deaf to the summons , and remarks that it is an allegorical conceit ? - Which would Handel ...
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... ness of their wagers , which at the Ex- change are excessive on any triffing news of the march of an army , the event of a siege , or a battle , so that they will risk thirty or forty thousand jacobuses on the most feeble grounds ...
... ness of their wagers , which at the Ex- change are excessive on any triffing news of the march of an army , the event of a siege , or a battle , so that they will risk thirty or forty thousand jacobuses on the most feeble grounds ...
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... little production , but with considerable vigour of thought , there is so much labour bestowed on it , that it reminds one of Mercutio's description of love , " O heavy light- ness , 30 [ July Stanzas addressed to a Comet .
... little production , but with considerable vigour of thought , there is so much labour bestowed on it , that it reminds one of Mercutio's description of love , " O heavy light- ness , 30 [ July Stanzas addressed to a Comet .
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description of love , " O heavy light- ness , serious vanity . " This sort of elegant trifling seems not very con- sonant to our insular genius . Prior has succeeded in some instances , and Pope's Rape of the Lock is admirable in its ...
description of love , " O heavy light- ness , serious vanity . " This sort of elegant trifling seems not very con- sonant to our insular genius . Prior has succeeded in some instances , and Pope's Rape of the Lock is admirable in its ...
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Page 134 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 326 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Page 325 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Page 252 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 326 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains.
Page 328 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
Page 317 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 326 - The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
Page 326 - ... gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every one in the country round.
Page 326 - He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name ; but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.