Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 57. köideWilliam Blackwood, 1845 |
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... Lady of the Lake and Mar- mion are , it would be the height of national partiality to make any such comparison . But , nevertheless , Sir Walter's mind is of the same dimen- sions as that of Homer . We see in him the same combination of ...
... Lady of the Lake and Mar- mion are , it would be the height of national partiality to make any such comparison . But , nevertheless , Sir Walter's mind is of the same dimen- sions as that of Homer . We see in him the same combination of ...
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... lady with a slight expression of perfidy in her light blue , French - looking eyes , pos- sessed withal of infinite ... ladies , there was a young Frenchman named Vergennes , the third son of some Gascon viscount , and a distant cousin ...
... lady with a slight expression of perfidy in her light blue , French - looking eyes , pos- sessed withal of infinite ... ladies , there was a young Frenchman named Vergennes , the third son of some Gascon viscount , and a distant cousin ...
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... ladies , as the Kentuckian dashed his boat slap up to the side of the steamer , without waiting till the speed of the ... lady , and it was without any great surprise that we heard , some time afterwards , of the 1845. ] 19 Settled at ...
... ladies , as the Kentuckian dashed his boat slap up to the side of the steamer , without waiting till the speed of the ... lady , and it was without any great surprise that we heard , some time afterwards , of the 1845. ] 19 Settled at ...
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... ladies matter to me , whether they've got on silk gowns or cotton ones ? I only go to see Miss Lamb- ton . ' " Miss Lambton was present , ' said the captain , when the ladies gave me the commission ; and she and Mr Lambton most ...
... ladies matter to me , whether they've got on silk gowns or cotton ones ? I only go to see Miss Lamb- ton . ' " Miss Lambton was present , ' said the captain , when the ladies gave me the commission ; and she and Mr Lambton most ...
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... ladies were touched with compas- sion . " Mr Doughby , " cried half a score feminine voices , " spare the poor beast ! Pray , pray let it go ! " " Spare a stag , ladies ! Where did you ever hear of such a thing ? Hurra , boys ...
... ladies were touched with compas- sion . " Mr Doughby , " cried half a score feminine voices , " spare the poor beast ! Pray , pray let it go ! " " Spare a stag , ladies ! Where did you ever hear of such a thing ? Hurra , boys ...
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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...