Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 49W. Blackwood, 1841 - England |
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Page 48
... English emotion is deep , powerful , and permanent . Our taste , perhaps , looking too much on the gloomy side of things , loves the force that is to be acquired by perpetual struggle of either mind or body . The labours of that ...
... English emotion is deep , powerful , and permanent . Our taste , perhaps , looking too much on the gloomy side of things , loves the force that is to be acquired by perpetual struggle of either mind or body . The labours of that ...
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... English society ; growing infirmities had already unfitted him to enjoy the life of which he had so long been the leader ; the bitterness of the party whom his long experience en- abled him to know to the core , and whose ambition ...
... English society ; growing infirmities had already unfitted him to enjoy the life of which he had so long been the leader ; the bitterness of the party whom his long experience en- abled him to know to the core , and whose ambition ...
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... English ambassador at the Porte exhibited the strongest opposition to this proposal . It fell to the ground ; the bold spirit of the mountaineers again raised a revolt , attacked one of Ibrahim's officers in February 1837 , and swept ...
... English ambassador at the Porte exhibited the strongest opposition to this proposal . It fell to the ground ; the bold spirit of the mountaineers again raised a revolt , attacked one of Ibrahim's officers in February 1837 , and swept ...
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... English have been always remarkable for the comparatively small loss of life with which they have been gained ; and in the estimation of the country , this has always formed a principal feature of the public triumph . The loss at Acre ...
... English have been always remarkable for the comparatively small loss of life with which they have been gained ; and in the estimation of the country , this has always formed a principal feature of the public triumph . The loss at Acre ...
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... English ' twas thought very few Spoke it better at least in the township of Chew . Now this John Meek never could for his life Bring his mind with his hand to the use of the knife , And the cutting of throats of , and cutting up , sheep ...
... English ' twas thought very few Spoke it better at least in the township of Chew . Now this John Meek never could for his life Bring his mind with his hand to the use of the knife , And the cutting of throats of , and cutting up , sheep ...
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Page 329 - 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? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 304 - I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing ; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the brow of that primrose hill.
Page 329 - 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! By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you; for from this day forth I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish.
Page 364 - 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 360 - He roved among the vales and streams, In the green wood and hollow dell; They were his dwellings night and day,— But nature ne'er could find the way Into the heart of Peter Bell. In vain, through every changeful year, Did Nature lead him as before ; A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Page 360 - ... 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 305 - I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields ; for I could there sit quietly, and, looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams, others leaping at flies of several shapes and colours ; looking on the hills I could behold them spotted with woods and groves ; looking down the meadows, could see here a boy gathering lilies and ladysmocks, and there a girl cropping culverkeyes and cowslips, all to make garlands suitable to this present month of May.
Page 219 - But the more closely any exercise of mind is connected with what is internal and individual in the sensibilities, that is, with what is philosophically termed subjective, precisely in that degree, and the more subtly, does the style or the embodying of the thoughts cease to be a mere separable ornament, and in fact the more does the manner, as we expressed it before, become confluent with the matter.
Page 35 - A more unjust and absurd constitution cannot be devised than that which condemns the natives of a country to perpetual servitude, under the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves. Yet such has been the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants.'!
Page 304 - ... 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 possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet has happily expressed it: I was for that time lifted above earth; And possessed joys not promis'd in my birth.