Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen18William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1851 |
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... hour to rest and feed the " baste " ) , the Atlantic opened before us , with rugged islands standing up in it as if a barrowful of mountains had been tumbled into the sea . The road became more hilly after passing this half - way house ...
... hour to rest and feed the " baste " ) , the Atlantic opened before us , with rugged islands standing up in it as if a barrowful of mountains had been tumbled into the sea . The road became more hilly after passing this half - way house ...
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... hour had past , Since , with intent to study magic lore , He had first darkened Don Torribio's door : An hour which seemed to fill his every wish up— That made him from a simple dean a bishop , Bishop , archbishop , cardinal and pope ...
... hour had past , Since , with intent to study magic lore , He had first darkened Don Torribio's door : An hour which seemed to fill his every wish up— That made him from a simple dean a bishop , Bishop , archbishop , cardinal and pope ...
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... hours of enjoyment are those of darkness , and such as no other branch of knowledge can reveal , his great delight in noise ; that he shuns observa- and its pursuit becomes insensibly more and more captivating in proportion to our ...
... hours of enjoyment are those of darkness , and such as no other branch of knowledge can reveal , his great delight in noise ; that he shuns observa- and its pursuit becomes insensibly more and more captivating in proportion to our ...
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... hour , he could not make up his mind to enter the gardens . The idea of offering him money , too , galled him exceedingly . In his adoration of Sarah he had been subject to elevation of mind , and had been soaring high in imaginary ...
... hour , he could not make up his mind to enter the gardens . The idea of offering him money , too , galled him exceedingly . In his adoration of Sarah he had been subject to elevation of mind , and had been soaring high in imaginary ...
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... hour . The parish won't pay when it does not employ . To be sure , if Graham himself had sent for me , he might have paid , but as for his house- keeper , how is the to pay ? I have had my time with the poor , let the young fellows look ...
... hour . The parish won't pay when it does not employ . To be sure , if Graham himself had sent for me , he might have paid , but as for his house- keeper , how is the to pay ? I have had my time with the poor , let the young fellows look ...
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Página 31 - Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache : they are not carved with their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as their minds were wholly bent upon the world, the selfsame way they seem to turn their faces.
Página 28 - Mongst quiet kindred that had nothing left By their dead parents : ' Stay,' quoth Reputation, ' Do not forsake me ; for it is 'my nature, If once I part from any man I meet, I am never found again.
Página 32 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Página 31 - Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.
Página 32 - Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Página 27 - To work thy discovery ; yet am now persuaded It would beget such violent effects As would damn us both. I would not for ten millions I had beheld thee : therefore use all means I never may have knowledge of thy name ; Enjoy thy lust still, and a wretched life, On that condition. — And for thee...
Página 32 - Not a whit: What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges, You may open them both ways: any way, for Heaven sake, So I were out of your whispering.
Página 354 - The king was not allowed so much as to walk abroad on Sundays : and if at any time there had been any gaiety at court, such as dancing or playing at cards, he was severely reproved for it.
Página 408 - With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 94 - ... which raiseth your thoughts unto old things and consideration of times before you, when even living men were antiquities ; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.