Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 51W. Blackwood, 1842 |
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... existence , but a mere hindering of the sun's light from filling up the space screened by his own body . The old grudge , which he cherished against this coy fugitive shadow , melted away in the rapture of this great discovery . To him ...
... existence , but a mere hindering of the sun's light from filling up the space screened by his own body . The old grudge , which he cherished against this coy fugitive shadow , melted away in the rapture of this great discovery . To him ...
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... existence of the latter harmony in the judgment and faith of Herodotus . He could not possibly have insisted on the analogy between the two channels geographically , as good in logic for authenticating a secret and prophetic analogy ...
... existence of the latter harmony in the judgment and faith of Herodotus . He could not possibly have insisted on the analogy between the two channels geographically , as good in logic for authenticating a secret and prophetic analogy ...
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... existence , can never be thy lot ; if degradation is to come , death must lead the procession , and whoever would enslave us , must en . slave us in our graves ; the good ship Old England has weathered many a tough gale , and will ...
... existence , can never be thy lot ; if degradation is to come , death must lead the procession , and whoever would enslave us , must en . slave us in our graves ; the good ship Old England has weathered many a tough gale , and will ...
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... existence . Incapable from character and habit of exertions of trifling ingenuity , and from the long and destructive wars that have desolated their country , in- different to trade , manufacture , or commerce , they have neither great ...
... existence . Incapable from character and habit of exertions of trifling ingenuity , and from the long and destructive wars that have desolated their country , in- different to trade , manufacture , or commerce , they have neither great ...
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... existence : for this , the infa- mous " crimp " grasps the hard earn- ings of the unsuspecting seaman as soon as he steps upon his native shore , and then spurns him naked into the street for this , the marine store- dealers and ...
... existence : for this , the infa- mous " crimp " grasps the hard earn- ings of the unsuspecting seaman as soon as he steps upon his native shore , and then spurns him naked into the street for this , the marine store- dealers and ...
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Page 451 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea ' Can wash the balm from an anointed king : The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 129 - There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Page 440 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 128 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 129 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress...
Page 129 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 445 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 220 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 462 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 28 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.