Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 49W. Blackwood & Sons, 1841 - Scotland |
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... hope we shall be able , amongst our common friends , to find a sufficient co - surety . " And now , dear Aubrey , how get you on with law ? Does she smile or scowl upon you ? I wonder why you did not go to the fountain - head , and ...
... hope we shall be able , amongst our common friends , to find a sufficient co - surety . " And now , dear Aubrey , how get you on with law ? Does she smile or scowl upon you ? I wonder why you did not go to the fountain - head , and ...
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... hope springs eternal in the hu- man breast , " and that , too , in every turn and variety of mortal misery . It was so with Aubrey . So long as he felt his health unimpaired , and his mental energies in full vigour , he looked on these ...
... hope springs eternal in the hu- man breast , " and that , too , in every turn and variety of mortal misery . It was so with Aubrey . So long as he felt his health unimpaired , and his mental energies in full vigour , he looked on these ...
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... hope that we shall get through even this , " commenced Kate ; when her emotion prevented her proceeding . Mr Au- brey appeared to cast his eye again , but mechanically only , over the dry , civil , heart - breaking letter . " Don't ...
... hope that we shall get through even this , " commenced Kate ; when her emotion prevented her proceeding . Mr Au- brey appeared to cast his eye again , but mechanically only , over the dry , civil , heart - breaking letter . " Don't ...
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... hope that they will prove to be those " of the electors of this ancient and " loyal borough , so as to warrant the 66 legislature in having preserved it in " existence , amidst the wholesale havoc " which it has just made in property ...
... hope that they will prove to be those " of the electors of this ancient and " loyal borough , so as to warrant the 66 legislature in having preserved it in " existence , amidst the wholesale havoc " which it has just made in property ...
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faintest glimmering of hope was sud- denly and completely extinguished , and the old gentleman felt quite deso- late . He looked up , on finishing the paragraph , and gazed rather ruefully at his indignant and sympathizing companion ...
faintest glimmering of hope was sud- denly and completely extinguished , and the old gentleman felt quite deso- late . He looked up , on finishing the paragraph , and gazed rather ruefully at his indignant and sympathizing companion ...
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Page 193 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour?
Page 173 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully...
Page 214 - ... hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
Page 218 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods. And mountains: and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, — both what they half create. And what perceive...
Page 173 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be...
Page 193 - I'll not endure it : you forget yourself, To hedge me in ; I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself, To make conditions.
Page 214 - The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Page 133 - ... could lay- the thoughts on the left hand, the language on the right. But, generally speaking, you can no more deal thus with poetic thoughts than you can with soul and body. The union is too subtle, the intertexture too ineffable, — each coexisting not merely with the other, but each in and through the other. An image, for instance, a single word, often enters into a thought as a constituent part. In short, the two elements are not united as a body with a separable dress, but as a mysterious...
Page 193 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Page 239 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?