Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 20W. Blackwood, 1826 |
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... whole landscape is of a sylvan kind , parts of it are so laden with woods that you see only here and there a wreath of smoke , but no houses , and could almost believe that you are gazing on the primeval forests . Lunch over , and your ...
... whole landscape is of a sylvan kind , parts of it are so laden with woods that you see only here and there a wreath of smoke , but no houses , and could almost believe that you are gazing on the primeval forests . Lunch over , and your ...
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... whole volume about such a village as Amble- side , where you are now sitting at breakfast in the Salutation Inn - nay , we have three volumes written about it already- -a story of which the scene is laid there - lying in MS . and eager ...
... whole volume about such a village as Amble- side , where you are now sitting at breakfast in the Salutation Inn - nay , we have three volumes written about it already- -a story of which the scene is laid there - lying in MS . and eager ...
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... whole system next year . No party very well pleased with Mr Jacob's report ; one side being in- credulous that corn coming from Ger- many will be at so high a price as he states , and the other very angry to find that it will come no ...
... whole system next year . No party very well pleased with Mr Jacob's report ; one side being in- credulous that corn coming from Ger- many will be at so high a price as he states , and the other very angry to find that it will come no ...
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... whole city looked like the black waters of a midnight sea ! One gloomy level of unbroken dark- ness ; no light - no shade - no break- ing - no distinction - no pause ! The concert - room was cold and chilly . The few lamps that were ...
... whole city looked like the black waters of a midnight sea ! One gloomy level of unbroken dark- ness ; no light - no shade - no break- ing - no distinction - no pause ! The concert - room was cold and chilly . The few lamps that were ...
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... whole of its embroidery !!! " The words are these they occur in a dialogue between Alonzo and Cora , where she describes the transports of a mother after the birth of her first- born . " When first the white blos- soms of his teeth ...
... whole of its embroidery !!! " The words are these they occur in a dialogue between Alonzo and Cora , where she describes the transports of a mother after the birth of her first- born . " When first the white blos- soms of his teeth ...
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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.