The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... face , with so much violence that I was instantly covered with blood ; that I ran the aggressor through the body , threw myself into my carriage , and left the place . This was the whole of the dream ; and an accident , which happened ...
... face , with so much violence that I was instantly covered with blood ; that I ran the aggressor through the body , threw myself into my carriage , and left the place . This was the whole of the dream ; and an accident , which happened ...
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... face , and pointing to my sword . Three or four officers wit- nessed the whole transaction . I had not got four steps from the box , be- fore I heard myself honoured with the appellation of Venetian poltroon . " In the field , not in ...
... face , and pointing to my sword . Three or four officers wit- nessed the whole transaction . I had not got four steps from the box , be- fore I heard myself honoured with the appellation of Venetian poltroon . " In the field , not in ...
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... face might charm , And dreams of former days would all her bosom warm . Frank Dickson was a father's only child , And born when fortune's sun serenely smil'd ; Parental fondness , to each failing blind , Believ'd that pertness spoke ...
... face might charm , And dreams of former days would all her bosom warm . Frank Dickson was a father's only child , And born when fortune's sun serenely smil'd ; Parental fondness , to each failing blind , Believ'd that pertness spoke ...
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... face , Each motion easy , and she danced with grace ; Her slender ancle , in silk stocking neat , As o'er the floor she tripp'd , with fairy feet , With fascination fix'd the scholar's gaze , As light she bounded through the mirthful ...
... face , Each motion easy , and she danced with grace ; Her slender ancle , in silk stocking neat , As o'er the floor she tripp'd , with fairy feet , With fascination fix'd the scholar's gaze , As light she bounded through the mirthful ...
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... face , watching the " natural tears " as they take their course , but too wise , as well as too kind , to in- terrupt them . The expression of the daughter's face is exquisite ; and the picture is really a very sweet little work . B. I ...
... face , watching the " natural tears " as they take their course , but too wise , as well as too kind , to in- terrupt them . The expression of the daughter's face is exquisite ; and the picture is really a very sweet little work . B. I ...
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Seite 62 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness.
Seite 53 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 94 - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of riral economy.
Seite 164 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Seite 609 - Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester, from the beginning of the Civill Warre betweene King and Parliament, to the Removall of Colonel Massie from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces.
Seite 120 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Seite 75 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Seite 94 - ... who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Seite 250 - An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains; Especially of Those Found in the British Strata: Intended to Aid the Student in His Inquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils and Their Connection With the Formation of the Earth (London, 1822).
Seite 148 - ... Grouchy's corps. He replied, " certainly ; and I can now scarcely comprehend why it was a Prussian division and not that of Grouchy." I then took the liberty of asking, whether, if neither Grouchy nor the Prussians had arrived, it would not have been a drawn battle. Napoleon answered, "the English army would have been destroyed. They were defeated at mid-day. But accident, or more likely destiny, decided that Lord Wellington should gain it. I could scarcely believe that he would have given me...