The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, Volumen1William Blackwood, 1817 |
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... soon behold a third , Flung thence in an irreparable ruin . Think not that I do fear thy upstart gods , Beings of yesterday ; but hie thee hence , Go , tell him that his thunders have no power To humble me or wrest my secret from me . M ...
... soon behold a third , Flung thence in an irreparable ruin . Think not that I do fear thy upstart gods , Beings of yesterday ; but hie thee hence , Go , tell him that his thunders have no power To humble me or wrest my secret from me . M ...
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... soon discovered that their manners and conduct corre- sponded but little to the sanctity of their first pretensions , yet so strong was the delusion respecting them , and so dexterous were they in the arts of imposition , that they seem ...
... soon discovered that their manners and conduct corre- sponded but little to the sanctity of their first pretensions , yet so strong was the delusion respecting them , and so dexterous were they in the arts of imposition , that they seem ...
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... soon after to another part of the country , in order to escape the threatened venge- ance of the murderer's clan . " In my parents ' early years , " con- tinues Mr Hogg , " the Faas and the Bailleys used to traverse the country in ...
... soon after to another part of the country , in order to escape the threatened venge- ance of the murderer's clan . " In my parents ' early years , " con- tinues Mr Hogg , " the Faas and the Bailleys used to traverse the country in ...
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... soon home . The poor farmer made a virtue of necessity , told his story , and surrendered his gold to Jean's custody . She made him put a few shillings in his pocket , observing it would excite suspicion should he be found travelling ...
... soon home . The poor farmer made a virtue of necessity , told his story , and surrendered his gold to Jean's custody . She made him put a few shillings in his pocket , observing it would excite suspicion should he be found travelling ...
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... soon adopt for a sign - board or motto , Mr Murray's very appro- priate and often - repeated postscript ; No admittance behind the scenes . And , at all events , if we should some It will doubtless be asked , how it is that 1817 ...
... soon adopt for a sign - board or motto , Mr Murray's very appro- priate and often - repeated postscript ; No admittance behind the scenes . And , at all events , if we should some It will doubtless be asked , how it is that 1817 ...
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Página 285 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Página 345 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found. And the world's victor stood subdued by sound!
Página 295 - Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old,— The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 271 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 393 - That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Página 284 - PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate : And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place !
Página 292 - And you, ye Crags, upon whose extreme edge I stand, and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap, A stir, a motion, even a breath, would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for ever...
Página 278 - With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 278 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 278 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.