The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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... months before their capture , believed themselves as secure from this danger as the reader now is . The adventures of M. Pananti are well calculated to excite this interest ; but we cannot conceal , that it is much diminished by his ...
... months before their capture , believed themselves as secure from this danger as the reader now is . The adventures of M. Pananti are well calculated to excite this interest ; but we cannot conceal , that it is much diminished by his ...
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... month of June of the same year . This animal was ob- served , about the same time , by the crews of thirteen different fishing- boats on that coast . Mr Maclean's description agrees very closely with several of the accounts given by Pon ...
... month of June of the same year . This animal was ob- served , about the same time , by the crews of thirteen different fishing- boats on that coast . Mr Maclean's description agrees very closely with several of the accounts given by Pon ...
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... months with no other society than that of their own family . Nothing can be conceived humbler in the way of human habita- tions than these cottages then were ; yet they were frequently lighted by a brilliancy of imagination , and ...
... months with no other society than that of their own family . Nothing can be conceived humbler in the way of human habita- tions than these cottages then were ; yet they were frequently lighted by a brilliancy of imagination , and ...
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... months ; and though his mother taught him to read , his whole stock of literature , till he was 20 years of age , consisted in the knowledge of his Bible , Hervey's Meditations , The Gentle Shepherd , an occasional num- ber of the Scots ...
... months ; and though his mother taught him to read , his whole stock of literature , till he was 20 years of age , consisted in the knowledge of his Bible , Hervey's Meditations , The Gentle Shepherd , an occasional num- ber of the Scots ...
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... month , -and they were his only visitors . The domestics of course are all well - trained , grave , so- lemn , silent personages . In this dis- mal abode , Mandeville's mind sel- dom received any cheerful impress sions , and he early ...
... month , -and they were his only visitors . The domestics of course are all well - trained , grave , so- lemn , silent personages . In this dis- mal abode , Mandeville's mind sel- dom received any cheerful impress sions , and he early ...
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Página 223 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 367 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Página 63 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Página 462 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Página 569 - Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; To think what a long line of titles may follow The relics of him who died — friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the fun'ral array Of one whom they shunn'd in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket, to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles, to-morrow...
Página 462 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 569 - Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Página 163 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Página 341 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Página 341 - Rede as the bristles of a sowes eres. His nose-thirles blacke were and wide. A swerd and bokeler bare he by his side. His mouth as wide was as a forneis. He was a jangler, and a goliardeis, And that was most of sinne, and harlotries.