The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... witness that I am no adept in fighting . I do not like to fight with pistols , and you cannot oblige me to it . Here is own letter , in which you leave the choice of the weapons to me . " your " That is true enough ; strictly speaking ...
... witness that I am no adept in fighting . I do not like to fight with pistols , and you cannot oblige me to it . Here is own letter , in which you leave the choice of the weapons to me . " your " That is true enough ; strictly speaking ...
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... witness there ; Home he return'd - to dream , but not despair . No longer now was lofty Virgil read- Bell Modely , love , and Ovid fill'd his head ; And while behind the trenching plough he strode , Romantic scenes and sunbright halos ...
... witness there ; Home he return'd - to dream , but not despair . No longer now was lofty Virgil read- Bell Modely , love , and Ovid fill'd his head ; And while behind the trenching plough he strode , Romantic scenes and sunbright halos ...
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... witness to the whole transaction frae first to last , and he confirmed every syllable o ' the tale that Johnny Swingletree tauld in our smithy about the young woman . The bridal folk , it wou'd appear , were delving awa i ' the con ...
... witness to the whole transaction frae first to last , and he confirmed every syllable o ' the tale that Johnny Swingletree tauld in our smithy about the young woman . The bridal folk , it wou'd appear , were delving awa i ' the con ...
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... witness against it . But as in the progress of this de- lusion , those who make use of their senses may suffer by the arts of those who appear to reject them , it seems high time seriously to enquire , whe- ther the senses and the ...
... witness against it . But as in the progress of this de- lusion , those who make use of their senses may suffer by the arts of those who appear to reject them , it seems high time seriously to enquire , whe- ther the senses and the ...
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... witness'd here . There stands an altar of unsculptur'd stone , Far on the Moor , a thing of ages gone , Propp'd on its granite pillars , whence the rains , And pure bright dews , have lav'd the crimson stains Left by dark rites of blood ...
... witness'd here . There stands an altar of unsculptur'd stone , Far on the Moor , a thing of ages gone , Propp'd on its granite pillars , whence the rains , And pure bright dews , have lav'd the crimson stains Left by dark rites of blood ...
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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...