The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... young . Such was Frank Dickson forty years ago ; What he is now , some future page may show . Dame Wilmot met him in a joyous hour , When jest and frolic flew with licens'd power ; " Twas at a wedding - feast , where all were gay ...
... young . Such was Frank Dickson forty years ago ; What he is now , some future page may show . Dame Wilmot met him in a joyous hour , When jest and frolic flew with licens'd power ; " Twas at a wedding - feast , where all were gay ...
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... Young like themselves , seem , like them- selves , unpractis'd- Look at their battle - rank . Prior . I cannot gaze on't with un- dazzled eye , So thick the rays dart back from shield and helmet , And sword and battle - axe , and spear ...
... Young like themselves , seem , like them- selves , unpractis'd- Look at their battle - rank . Prior . I cannot gaze on't with un- dazzled eye , So thick the rays dart back from shield and helmet , And sword and battle - axe , and spear ...
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... young , And lack experience ; tell me , brave De Vipont , Is such the fashion of your wars in Pa- lestine ? [ July Vipont . Such it at times hath been ; and then the Cross Hath sunk before the Crescent . Heaven's cause Won us not ...
... young , And lack experience ; tell me , brave De Vipont , Is such the fashion of your wars in Pa- lestine ? [ July Vipont . Such it at times hath been ; and then the Cross Hath sunk before the Crescent . Heaven's cause Won us not ...
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... Young Gordon is a chip of the same block with Swinton ; differing from him only in degree , as the sap- ling differs from the gnarled oak , which the storms and tempests of ages have only rooted firmer and deeper in the soil ...
... Young Gordon is a chip of the same block with Swinton ; differing from him only in degree , as the sap- ling differs from the gnarled oak , which the storms and tempests of ages have only rooted firmer and deeper in the soil ...
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... young men complain of , when called to officiate in public , yet can I safely lay my hand on my heart and declare , that there is not an individual in these realms more sincerely attached to the fair sister- hood than myself , ergo ...
... young men complain of , when called to officiate in public , yet can I safely lay my hand on my heart and declare , that there is not an individual in these realms more sincerely attached to the fair sister- hood than myself , ergo ...
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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...