Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845 - Scotland |
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... readers , is , that he is so dull - the most fatal of all defects , and the most inexcusable in an historian . His heart was not in history , his hand was not trained to it ; it is in " Roderick Random " or " Peregrine Pickle , " not ...
... readers , is , that he is so dull - the most fatal of all defects , and the most inexcusable in an historian . His heart was not in history , his hand was not trained to it ; it is in " Roderick Random " or " Peregrine Pickle , " not ...
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... reader . They are the mate- rials of history , not history itself . They bear the same relation to the works of Livy or Gibbon which the rude blocks in the quarry do to the temples of St Peter's or the Parthenon . Ordinary readers are ...
... reader . They are the mate- rials of history , not history itself . They bear the same relation to the works of Livy or Gibbon which the rude blocks in the quarry do to the temples of St Peter's or the Parthenon . Ordinary readers are ...
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... readers by the present essay at a transfusion of his works into the English language , will be necessarily a very ... reader . The task of translating all Púshkin's poetry is certainly too dignified a one , not to excite our ambition ...
... readers by the present essay at a transfusion of his works into the English language , will be necessarily a very ... reader . The task of translating all Púshkin's poetry is certainly too dignified a one , not to excite our ambition ...
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... reader . Let the indulgent , therefore , remember , if we have in any case left an air of stiffness and constraint ... readers an example of this from the writings of Púshkin , and as they would be unable to pronounce such a quotation ...
... reader . Let the indulgent , therefore , remember , if we have in any case left an air of stiffness and constraint ... readers an example of this from the writings of Púshkin , and as they would be unable to pronounce such a quotation ...
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... readers will pardon the apparent technicality of these remarks , for the sake of the consideration which induced us to make them . In all translation , even in the best , there is so great a loss of spirit and harmony , that the ...
... readers will pardon the apparent technicality of these remarks , for the sake of the consideration which induced us to make them . In all translation , even in the best , there is so great a loss of spirit and harmony , that the ...
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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...