The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Τόμος 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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Σελίδα 20
... Death's cold hand lay heavy on his breast , Old Bridget came , and kind , her cordials press'd ; With indignation in his death - glaz'd eye , " " Begone ! " he cried ; " leave me in peace to die ! And if you wish my troubled spirit rest ...
... Death's cold hand lay heavy on his breast , Old Bridget came , and kind , her cordials press'd ; With indignation in his death - glaz'd eye , " " Begone ! " he cried ; " leave me in peace to die ! And if you wish my troubled spirit rest ...
Σελίδα 28
... death - which the author has introduced in his drama , with such admirable effect . But , with infinite taste and judg- ment , he has transferred the scene of action from Homildon to Halidon Hill : " For this , " says he , " there was ...
... death - which the author has introduced in his drama , with such admirable effect . But , with infinite taste and judg- ment , he has transferred the scene of action from Homildon to Halidon Hill : " For this , " says he , " there was ...
Σελίδα 30
... death is unaveng'd ? Swinton . Templar , what think'st thou me ? See yonder rock , From which the fountain gushes - is it less Compact of adamant , though waters flow from it ? Firm hearts have moister eyes . They are aveng'd ; I wept ...
... death is unaveng'd ? Swinton . Templar , what think'st thou me ? See yonder rock , From which the fountain gushes - is it less Compact of adamant , though waters flow from it ? Firm hearts have moister eyes . They are aveng'd ; I wept ...
Σελίδα 33
... death of slaughter'd deer , Which , driven into the toils , are shot at ease By boys and women , while they toss aloft All idly and in vain their branchy horns , As we shall shake our unavailing spears . Regent . Tush , tell not me ! If ...
... death of slaughter'd deer , Which , driven into the toils , are shot at ease By boys and women , while they toss aloft All idly and in vain their branchy horns , As we shall shake our unavailing spears . Regent . Tush , tell not me ! If ...
Σελίδα 35
... death - feud was not like the house- hold fire , Which the poor peasant hides among its embers , To smoulder on , and wait a time for waking . Ours was the conflagration of the forest , Which , in its fury , spares nor sprout nor stem ...
... death - feud was not like the house- hold fire , Which the poor peasant hides among its embers , To smoulder on , and wait a time for waking . Ours was the conflagration of the forest , Which , in its fury , spares nor sprout nor stem ...
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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).
Σελίδα 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...