Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14William Blackwood, 1823 - England |
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... least pretensions to be and what , in- deed , scarcely one of their predecessors was he is a thorough - bred artist . He draws with the ease , and freedom , and fearlessness of a master ; he understands the figure completely ; and ...
... least pretensions to be and what , in- deed , scarcely one of their predecessors was he is a thorough - bred artist . He draws with the ease , and freedom , and fearlessness of a master ; he understands the figure completely ; and ...
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... least it will not now applaud , any artist whose works do not announce a mind rich in gene- ral accomplishment and acquirement -a mind that has been fed with the contemplation of human thoughts and feelings , as well as human forms - a ...
... least it will not now applaud , any artist whose works do not announce a mind rich in gene- ral accomplishment and acquirement -a mind that has been fed with the contemplation of human thoughts and feelings , as well as human forms - a ...
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... least will die Confess'd , not without shrift : For by the tresses I am dragg'd along By an antagonist so wild and strong , That o'er sharp rocks and brambles , stain- ing so The pathway with my blood , it rushes by , Than the swift ...
... least will die Confess'd , not without shrift : For by the tresses I am dragg'd along By an antagonist so wild and strong , That o'er sharp rocks and brambles , stain- ing so The pathway with my blood , it rushes by , Than the swift ...
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... least sensa- tion ? Meph . A good man's hearth , the while his wife sits by , Pearls cannot equal , treasures cannot buy ! " Tis thus the proverb says , and so say I. Mar. I mean , if e'er your heart to love was tending ? Meph . I ...
... least sensa- tion ? Meph . A good man's hearth , the while his wife sits by , Pearls cannot equal , treasures cannot buy ! " Tis thus the proverb says , and so say I. Mar. I mean , if e'er your heart to love was tending ? Meph . I ...
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... least demonstration that might create alarm ; no one was permitted to enter Vienna . When everything had been seen , and examined , the Grand Duke took possession of that capital , charging Lannes and Bertrand to make a strong ...
... least demonstration that might create alarm ; no one was permitted to enter Vienna . When everything had been seen , and examined , the Grand Duke took possession of that capital , charging Lannes and Bertrand to make a strong ...
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Page 344 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 396 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 157 - ... the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched.
Page 265 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 266 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 481 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good; I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Page 482 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 288 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Page 482 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 481 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?