Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 44W. Blackwood & Sons, 1838 - Scotland |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 3
... given From deeper fountains looked and smiled ; And , like a morning dream from heaven , The woman gleamed within the child . 3 . Her looks were oftener turned to earth , But every glance was lovelier now ; ' Twas plain that light of ...
... given From deeper fountains looked and smiled ; And , like a morning dream from heaven , The woman gleamed within the child . 3 . Her looks were oftener turned to earth , But every glance was lovelier now ; ' Twas plain that light of ...
Page 5
... given ; And , asking Truth as daily food , Seek little more from Heaven . 9 . To him the friend of all his days Had been his saintly mother , And ev'n the playmate of his plays- He never wished another . 10 . For he was weak and oft in ...
... given ; And , asking Truth as daily food , Seek little more from Heaven . 9 . To him the friend of all his days Had been his saintly mother , And ev'n the playmate of his plays- He never wished another . 10 . For he was weak and oft in ...
Page 27
... given us an English version not to be despised . The poet , in a vision , - " my visual sense was soul , " is amongst strange mountains and forests . He pierces " a cavern's mouth , " and visits the subterranean cataracts . So much we ...
... given us an English version not to be despised . The poet , in a vision , - " my visual sense was soul , " is amongst strange mountains and forests . He pierces " a cavern's mouth , " and visits the subterranean cataracts . So much we ...
Page 42
... given Casimir Perier a distaste for political life . This was to him a violation of law , a final blow against liberty , and the precur- sor of the dominion of brute force . The 18th Brumaire killed the first Revolution . The Ministry ...
... given Casimir Perier a distaste for political life . This was to him a violation of law , a final blow against liberty , and the precur- sor of the dominion of brute force . The 18th Brumaire killed the first Revolution . The Ministry ...
Page 50
... given by , and to be offered to the press , was debated with talent and energy , and M. Pe- rier had to contend with two able an- tagonists in the persons of M. de Corbiere , and M. Dudon . The re- pression of the slave - trade was also ...
... given by , and to be offered to the press , was debated with talent and energy , and M. Pe- rier had to contend with two able an- tagonists in the persons of M. de Corbiere , and M. Dudon . The re- pression of the slave - trade was also ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Admetus Adonijah Akerblad Alcestis appear beautiful Blond called Casimir Perier Catholic Chaldean character Christopher North Church dark dead dear death deep Dr Knox dream earth enquired existence eyes fact fair father favour fear feel fish France give Government grave Guizot hand happy head hear heard heart heaven honour hope hour human Jane King lady Le Blond light live look Lord Lord John Russell Manetho Melfi ment mind moral mother Namur nature Nehe ness never night o'er object once Orpheus party passed passion person poet poetry Protestantism racter reciprocity Roman Roman Catholic round salmon seemed seen sensation Shufflebotham silent trade soul spirit tell thee thing thou thought tion trade truth vendace voice Whigs whole wife words young youth
Popular passages
Page 280 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 539 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species? to the external World Is fitted :— and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish :— this is our high argument.
Page 277 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 279 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Page 514 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 279 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 530 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 279 - The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ;— These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 279 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 78 - Laodicea. *^And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. *^His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow...