Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 120William Blackwood, 1876 - England |
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... head , and snatch a pot of porter from his hands , and drain it to the dregs , and say , ' It is all right , Harry ; that fetched ' em . ' But Í know , by experience , she did : so sauve qui peut ; dear friend and fellow - lunatic , for ...
... head , and snatch a pot of porter from his hands , and drain it to the dregs , and say , ' It is all right , Harry ; that fetched ' em . ' But Í know , by experience , she did : so sauve qui peut ; dear friend and fellow - lunatic , for ...
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Oh ture with an eye in its head . the blindness of you men ! " The Misogyn was struck dumb . When he recovered , it was to repine at the lot of man . " Even my own familiar cousin once removed - in whom I trusted ! I depute you to ...
Oh ture with an eye in its head . the blindness of you men ! " The Misogyn was struck dumb . When he recovered , it was to repine at the lot of man . " Even my own familiar cousin once removed - in whom I trusted ! I depute you to ...
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... head ; Housing and saddle bloody red , Lord Marmion's steed rushed by . " The very lilt of the metre carries you on with it . Belton . The age does not like this sort of thing now in its own poetry , however much it may ad- mire it in ...
... head ; Housing and saddle bloody red , Lord Marmion's steed rushed by . " The very lilt of the metre carries you on with it . Belton . The age does not like this sort of thing now in its own poetry , however much it may ad- mire it in ...
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... head in England , the head of Mr Damon . " " But what is he doing ? " I asked . " He is promoting his circula- tion . " " After his bath , I suppose ? " " I can't say , " answered John ; " but every morning at or about this hour , I ...
... head in England , the head of Mr Damon . " " But what is he doing ? " I asked . " He is promoting his circula- tion . " " After his bath , I suppose ? " " I can't say , " answered John ; " but every morning at or about this hour , I ...
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... head , and . then had nothing better to say than , " Would not you like - in fact - to take a chair ? " John took a chair , and a pause ensued . But he felt that he could not sit silent . He was just on the point 1876. ] 45 John's Hero .
... head , and . then had nothing better to say than , " Would not you like - in fact - to take a chair ? " John took a chair , and a pause ensued . But he felt that he could not sit silent . He was just on the point 1876. ] 45 John's Hero .
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Page 316 - And his mercy is on them that fear him From generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm ; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, And exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things ; And the rich he hath sent empty away.
Page 726 - ... bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give; And I with thee will choose to live.
Page 713 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 31 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 726 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth...
Page 726 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Page 179 - Maître de Philosophie. La voix U se forme en rapprochant les dents sans les joindre entièrement, et allongeant les deux lèvres en dehors, les approchant aussi l'une de l'autre, sans les joindre tout à fait: U. M. Jourdain. U, U. Il n'ya rien de plus véritable : U. Le Maître de Philosophie.
Page 713 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star...
Page 26 - That no man is the lord of any thing, (Though in and of him there be much consisting,) Till he communicate his parts to others...
Page 30 - A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes • From whence 'tis nourished : The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes.