Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 20W. Blackwood, 1826 |
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... question car- ried ( as of course you know ) by a strong majority in the Lords ; and people looking forward confidently to a change in the whole system next year . No party very well pleased with Mr Jacob's report ; one side being in ...
... question car- ried ( as of course you know ) by a strong majority in the Lords ; and people looking forward confidently to a change in the whole system next year . No party very well pleased with Mr Jacob's report ; one side being in ...
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... question , and before the month was out we were married . Har . And her friends , did they consent ? Cor . Why , there was a little difficulty . Her parents were dead , and her uncle , Sir Charles , ( for she's a baronet's niece ...
... question , and before the month was out we were married . Har . And her friends , did they consent ? Cor . Why , there was a little difficulty . Her parents were dead , and her uncle , Sir Charles , ( for she's a baronet's niece ...
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... question ; but there is yet in these countries a sufficient smack of barbar- ism to make retaliation be considered perfectly justifiable ; and a young man just robbed of his mistress may per- haps be excused for not respecting his ...
... question ; but there is yet in these countries a sufficient smack of barbar- ism to make retaliation be considered perfectly justifiable ; and a young man just robbed of his mistress may per- haps be excused for not respecting his ...
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... question as to the exact period from which the Holy Of- fice dates its commencement , still less have they succeeded in giving us any certain information as to the peculiar organization of that tremendous insti- tution . The reason of ...
... question as to the exact period from which the Holy Of- fice dates its commencement , still less have they succeeded in giving us any certain information as to the peculiar organization of that tremendous insti- tution . The reason of ...
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... question at the particular stage of the process to which we have arrived . " Je ne m'arrêterai point , " says Senor Llo- rente , " à décrire les divers genres de supplices exercés par ordre de l'Inqui- sition sur les accusés , cette ...
... question at the particular stage of the process to which we have arrived . " Je ne m'arrêterai point , " says Senor Llo- rente , " à décrire les divers genres de supplices exercés par ordre de l'Inqui- sition sur les accusés , cette ...
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Page 261 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 276 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 226 - Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential ; happier far Than miserable to have eternal being : Or, if our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst...
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Page 278 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 276 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails ; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Page 408 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.
Page 246 - While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.
Page 244 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master.