Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 56W. Blackwood., 1844 - England |
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... called into existence but by such an increase of crime as has ren dered it a matter of necessity . We are far , however , from having approached the whole truth , if we have merely ascertained , upon authen- tic evidence , that crime is ...
... called into existence but by such an increase of crime as has ren dered it a matter of necessity . We are far , however , from having approached the whole truth , if we have merely ascertained , upon authen- tic evidence , that crime is ...
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... called forth in the parents , and grati- tude and affection in the children , from the very circumstance of the de- pendence of the latter on the former , is destroyed . It is worse than de- stroyed , it is made the parent of wickedness ...
... called forth in the parents , and grati- tude and affection in the children , from the very circumstance of the de- pendence of the latter on the former , is destroyed . It is worse than de- stroyed , it is made the parent of wickedness ...
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... called Fiume freddo , whose source we track across the plain by banks crowned with Cactus and Ta- marisk . Looking back with regret towards Alcamo , we see trains of mules , which still transact the internal commerce of the country ...
... called Fiume freddo , whose source we track across the plain by banks crowned with Cactus and Ta- marisk . Looking back with regret towards Alcamo , we see trains of mules , which still transact the internal commerce of the country ...
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... called " chaoli " from their shrill note , issued from their hiding - places , and gave us wild music as they scudded by ! A few bits of wall scattered over the corn - fields are all that now re- mains of the dwellings of the men who ...
... called " chaoli " from their shrill note , issued from their hiding - places , and gave us wild music as they scudded by ! A few bits of wall scattered over the corn - fields are all that now re- mains of the dwellings of the men who ...
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... called Giocosa . By its side lies Tyndaris- classical enough if we spell it right . The snow on Etna is as good as an inscrip- tion , and to be read at any distance ; but what a deception ! They tell us it is thirty miles off , and it ...
... called Giocosa . By its side lies Tyndaris- classical enough if we spell it right . The snow on Etna is as good as an inscrip- tion , and to be read at any distance ; but what a deception ! They tell us it is thirty miles off , and it ...
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Page 312 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 122 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 390 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 393 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 235 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Page 539 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.
Page 266 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 185 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 623 - She has thrown her bonnet by, And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow : Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping While she rocketh to and fro.
Page 114 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.