Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 57. köideWilliam Blackwood, 1845 |
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... become a great poet must first become a little child . There is no doubt he is right . The seen and unseen fetters of civili- zation ; the multitude of old ideas afloat in the world ; the innumerable worn - out channels into which new ...
... become a great poet must first become a little child . There is no doubt he is right . The seen and unseen fetters of civili- zation ; the multitude of old ideas afloat in the world ; the innumerable worn - out channels into which new ...
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... become a respectable plantation , his cotton was sought after , and he had not only paid for his acres but had already a large sum in the Planters ' Bank . His frank open character had made him friends on all hands , and there was not a ...
... become a respectable plantation , his cotton was sought after , and he had not only paid for his acres but had already a large sum in the Planters ' Bank . His frank open character had made him friends on all hands , and there was not a ...
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... become pain- ful to behold . Man " Fire , Parker ! Fire , Rolby ! " shouted several voices from the steam- er to the men in the boat . " Knock the cussed redskin on the head ! " was the unintelligible rejoinder of one of the latter ...
... become pain- ful to behold . Man " Fire , Parker ! Fire , Rolby ! " shouted several voices from the steam- er to the men in the boat . " Knock the cussed redskin on the head ! " was the unintelligible rejoinder of one of the latter ...
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... become as ardent a war- rior as his predecessor . Ever since the beginning of the summer , war had been waged with Osman Pasha of Mostar , concerning a disputed terri- tory . On one occasion the opposed forces were in sight for a week ...
... become as ardent a war- rior as his predecessor . Ever since the beginning of the summer , war had been waged with Osman Pasha of Mostar , concerning a disputed terri- tory . On one occasion the opposed forces were in sight for a week ...
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... become possessor of it , through , I believe , a pecuniary arrangement with the Vladika . His territory , how- ever , at no time reached the sea in any part , though this is not distant above two or three miles ; it was now a military ...
... become possessor of it , through , I believe , a pecuniary arrangement with the Vladika . His territory , how- ever , at no time reached the sea in any part , though this is not distant above two or three miles ; it was now a military ...
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Page 378 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 394 - 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 128 - 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 377 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight, Upborne, with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt...
Page 396 - 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...
Page 277 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 130 - 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 148 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, (Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Page 635 - Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town. But I will no more offend against good manners: I am sensible as I ought to be of the scandal I have given by my loose writings; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment.
Page 635 - May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...