The Saturday Magazine, Volume 25John William Parker, 1844 - Periodicals |
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... continued to practise portrait - painting in London for some time , when he was enabled , by the assistance of his relations , to travel into Italy . There he still followed the same department , not being aware that this was not the ...
... continued to practise portrait - painting in London for some time , when he was enabled , by the assistance of his relations , to travel into Italy . There he still followed the same department , not being aware that this was not the ...
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... continued to maintain its credit . About the year 274 B.C. , Pyrrhus , having waged an unsuccessful war with the Romans , was overcome . To this war the oracle had encouraged him by an ambigu- ous answer to his application , which ...
... continued to maintain its credit . About the year 274 B.C. , Pyrrhus , having waged an unsuccessful war with the Romans , was overcome . To this war the oracle had encouraged him by an ambigu- ous answer to his application , which ...
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... continued to make presents , till they bribed Heaven to give them the sight of so precious a relic . This was now discovered to have been the blood of a duck , which they renewed every week ; and the one side of the vial was so thick ...
... continued to make presents , till they bribed Heaven to give them the sight of so precious a relic . This was now discovered to have been the blood of a duck , which they renewed every week ; and the one side of the vial was so thick ...
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... continued for some time . The eclipse commenced at about 2 minutes after 9 , but it was difficult to note the exact time with precision . Just then an owl began to hoot , and in a tone so like a human being that we thought some one was ...
... continued for some time . The eclipse commenced at about 2 minutes after 9 , but it was difficult to note the exact time with precision . Just then an owl began to hoot , and in a tone so like a human being that we thought some one was ...
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... continued for a while , the artifice of the priests drew their predictions . The noises occa- sioned by the shaking of the leaves and boughs of the oaks , were likewise received as celestial answers : to which it may be added that the ...
... continued for a while , the artifice of the priests drew their predictions . The noises occa- sioned by the shaking of the leaves and boughs of the oaks , were likewise received as celestial answers : to which it may be added that the ...
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Page 135 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 232 - And of an humbler growth, the * other tall And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf, That the wind severs from the broken wave...
Page 23 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Once I loved Torn Ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delight should e'er have been so moved.
Page 135 - Lives of great men all remind us "We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 4 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth, Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying ? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Page 135 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Page 123 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 182 - Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. There all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still.
Page 231 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 4 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG.