The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 89Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 - English literature |
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... John Din- woodie stood by the hag - block , dis- secting the finest carcases of hill- wedder - mutton that ever revolved on a spit , or tottled in a pot . Dea- con Midriff , and his man Caleb Go- rum , were just arrived with a prime ...
... John Din- woodie stood by the hag - block , dis- secting the finest carcases of hill- wedder - mutton that ever revolved on a spit , or tottled in a pot . Dea- con Midriff , and his man Caleb Go- rum , were just arrived with a prime ...
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... John Dinwoodie's accom- modation , and yet no traces of pre- vious arrangement could ever be dis- cerned . Others , again , imagined , that they were piloted to warm kilns and empty barns , by their instinct ; whilst a few handled the ...
... John Dinwoodie's accom- modation , and yet no traces of pre- vious arrangement could ever be dis- cerned . Others , again , imagined , that they were piloted to warm kilns and empty barns , by their instinct ; whilst a few handled the ...
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... John Dinwoodie's good- natured simplicity , for harbouring such swarms of unprofitable sojourn ers ; but they stirred not his bris- tles against the houseless Gaberlun- zie , nor soured his loving kindness in the smallest degree . On ...
... John Dinwoodie's good- natured simplicity , for harbouring such swarms of unprofitable sojourn ers ; but they stirred not his bris- tles against the houseless Gaberlun- zie , nor soured his loving kindness in the smallest degree . On ...
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... John Dinwoodie , " and " Nanse , " most re- spectfully took their circuit , and every individual of the family was honoured in the like neighbourly manner . Then it was that Roger forgot his locks were grey , and sang , " Tak ' your ...
... John Dinwoodie , " and " Nanse , " most re- spectfully took their circuit , and every individual of the family was honoured in the like neighbourly manner . Then it was that Roger forgot his locks were grey , and sang , " Tak ' your ...
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... John Anderson , my joe , " in the tenderest strain of harmony ; and a twitter of delight , that fully divulged the inter- nal satisfaction of her audience , did ample justice to the fidelity of her feelings . But when the good old woman ...
... John Anderson , my joe , " in the tenderest strain of harmony ; and a twitter of delight , that fully divulged the inter- nal satisfaction of her audience , did ample justice to the fidelity of her feelings . But when the good old woman ...
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Page 28 - I have of late,— but wherefore I know not,— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 105 - Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile, Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others
Page 40 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 113 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities?
Page 387 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown ; From the burthen of the flesh, And from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest.
Page 26 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 102 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Page 104 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Page 69 - ... large territory has generally an abundance, but the inferior machinery which may be said to be employed when good land is further and further forced for additional produce. As the price of raw produce...
Page 569 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...