The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volumen1John Timbs 1839 |
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... side aisles of Melrose Abbey ; the lower groined roof is the same as one compartment of the roof of the choir , which is still entire : the round pinnacles projecting from ornamental turrets have been considered anomalous in the design ...
... side aisles of Melrose Abbey ; the lower groined roof is the same as one compartment of the roof of the choir , which is still entire : the round pinnacles projecting from ornamental turrets have been considered anomalous in the design ...
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... side of the Atlantic . It is , certainly , one of the most fascinating pieces of biographical writing that has ever fallen under our notice : its points of personal history are so artlessly narrated , and its estimate of character is so ...
... side of the Atlantic . It is , certainly , one of the most fascinating pieces of biographical writing that has ever fallen under our notice : its points of personal history are so artlessly narrated , and its estimate of character is so ...
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... side of a valley or other shel- tered situation , the soil which has been gradually washed down from the sur- rounding heights being that which forms its support . This is afforded by the decom- position of a kind of clay - stone ...
... side of a valley or other shel- tered situation , the soil which has been gradually washed down from the sur- rounding heights being that which forms its support . This is afforded by the decom- position of a kind of clay - stone ...
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... sides of the hills , and particularly from the Blocksberg , on the summit of which stands the obser- vatory , copious ... side the Bishop of London's prison , the other ad- joining the first - but towards the west of the prison . This ...
... sides of the hills , and particularly from the Blocksberg , on the summit of which stands the obser- vatory , copious ... side the Bishop of London's prison , the other ad- joining the first - but towards the west of the prison . This ...
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... side of Tothill - street , some on one side of the street having large gardens stretching to the Park , and some on the other side with gardens extending to Orchard - street . Very few houses were then built in York - street ; a few ...
... side of Tothill - street , some on one side of the street having large gardens stretching to the Park , and some on the other side with gardens extending to Orchard - street . Very few houses were then built in York - street ; a few ...
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Página 233 - And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Página 263 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Página 308 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Página 263 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent no From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls: A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave.
Página 317 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Página 333 - We see him, so far as we do see him, not in himself, but in a reflex image from the objectivity in which he was manifested : he is Falstaff and Mercutio and Malvolio and Jaques and Portia and Imogen and Lear and Othello ; but to us he is scarcely a determined person, a substantial reality of past time, the man Shakspeare. The two greatest names in poetry are to us little more than names. If we are not yet come to question his unity, as we do that of " the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle...
Página 216 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Página 43 - The true test of a great man — that, at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of great men — is his having been. in advance of his age.
Página 352 - Review; this was acceded to •with acclamation. I was appointed Editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review.
Página 392 - And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; ' Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams : — The goldless age, where gold disturbs no dreams, Inhabits or inhabited the shore, Till Europe taught them better than before : Bestow'd her customs, and amended theirs, But left her vices also to their heirs.