Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845 - Scotland |
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... given such immortal celebrity to his reign . Cor- neille and Racine were his tragedians ; Molière wrote his comedies ; Bossuet , Fénélon , and Bourdaloue were his theologians ; Massillon his preacher , Boileau his critic ; Le Notre laid ...
... given such immortal celebrity to his reign . Cor- neille and Racine were his tragedians ; Molière wrote his comedies ; Bossuet , Fénélon , and Bourdaloue were his theologians ; Massillon his preacher , Boileau his critic ; Le Notre laid ...
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... given to ad- vance . The rivulets and marshy ground in front of Blenheim and Unterglau were passed by the first line without much difficulty , though under a heavy fire of artillery from the French batteries ; and the firm ground on the ...
... given to ad- vance . The rivulets and marshy ground in front of Blenheim and Unterglau were passed by the first line without much difficulty , though under a heavy fire of artillery from the French batteries ; and the firm ground on the ...
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... given unde- niable proof of his possessing that union of magnanimity and patriotism , which is not the meanest characteristic of elevated genius . While the poet gives full way to the triumphant feelings so naturally inspired by the ...
... given unde- niable proof of his possessing that union of magnanimity and patriotism , which is not the meanest characteristic of elevated genius . While the poet gives full way to the triumphant feelings so naturally inspired by the ...
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... given out were the same for all of us , it was not possible to take so many crops off the ground without starving the qua- lity of all . Two years and a half from this time , I was again at a public school of an- cient foundation . Now ...
... given out were the same for all of us , it was not possible to take so many crops off the ground without starving the qua- lity of all . Two years and a half from this time , I was again at a public school of an- cient foundation . Now ...
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... given to me simply the reliques of his breakfast - table , which itself was hardly more than a relique . But in this he was not to blame . could not give to me what he had not for himself , nor sometimes for the poor starving child whom ...
... given to me simply the reliques of his breakfast - table , which itself was hardly more than a relique . But in this he was not to blame . could not give to me what he had not for himself , nor sometimes for the poor starving child whom ...
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Page 366 - But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And, for my foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee...
Page 248 - Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die.
Page 580 - When I proceed to write down my ideas, I take out of the bag of my memory, if I may use that phrase, what has previously been collected into it in the way I have mentioned. For this reason the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination.
Page 239 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The King of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 27 - It was by this engaging, graceful manner that he was enabled during all his war to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever Court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.
Page 231 - My son, advance Still in new impudence, new ignorance. Success let others teach, learn thou from me Pangs without birth, and fruitless industry. Let virtuosos in five years be writ; Yet not one thought accuse thy toil of wit.
Page 248 - In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the muse obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th...
Page 249 - Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human Spark is left, nor Glimpse divine ! Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall. And universal Darkness buries All.
Page 252 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 364 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody ; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin. Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in...