The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 9J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1789 - Books and bookselling |
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... beautiful country ; but muft observe , that whoever wrote L. M - ' s Letters ( for fhe never wrote a line of them ) mifreprefents things moft ter- fibly I do really believe , in moft things they wifhed to impofe upon the credulity of ...
... beautiful country ; but muft observe , that whoever wrote L. M - ' s Letters ( for fhe never wrote a line of them ) mifreprefents things moft ter- fibly I do really believe , in moft things they wifhed to impofe upon the credulity of ...
Page 94
... beautiful fhades of rofe - co- fields , through which you arrive at lour and crimson ; the whole horizon Courmayeur . In all this rout there of Italy feemed to be edged with a is no difficulty . We , however , fufe broad purple border ...
... beautiful fhades of rofe - co- fields , through which you arrive at lour and crimson ; the whole horizon Courmayeur . In all this rout there of Italy feemed to be edged with a is no difficulty . We , however , fufe broad purple border ...
Page 133
... beautiful plain . He was charm- ed with this difcovery , repaired to the place defcribed , and made choice of a little arbour that feemed fit for his pur- pole , and which was but little diftant from the window . Here he placed him felf ...
... beautiful plain . He was charm- ed with this difcovery , repaired to the place defcribed , and made choice of a little arbour that feemed fit for his pur- pole , and which was but little diftant from the window . Here he placed him felf ...
Page 134
... beautiful woman in the East , and to be reputed ugly ; to be only eigh- teen years of age , without the very tha- dow of liberty ; to have only one lover , who feldom pays his court without the hope of another , is furely enough to ...
... beautiful woman in the East , and to be reputed ugly ; to be only eigh- teen years of age , without the very tha- dow of liberty ; to have only one lover , who feldom pays his court without the hope of another , is furely enough to ...
Page 135
... beautiful of women , and yet it did not e- qual its model . However it fatisfied the perfon from whom it was taken , a cir- cumftance that rarely happens . He wished to make an exact copy of this picture , but the prince's faved him the ...
... beautiful of women , and yet it did not e- qual its model . However it fatisfied the perfon from whom it was taken , a cir- cumftance that rarely happens . He wished to make an exact copy of this picture , but the prince's faved him the ...
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Page 316 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 316 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 384 - It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends.
Page 112 - I might remain in conversation with him near five hours; and though I was now grown faint from the constant fatigue I had undergone, and having not yet broken my fast, yet this had not so much effect upon me as the anxiety I was under for a particular friend, with whom I was to have dined that day, and who, lodging at the top of a very high house in the heart of the city, and being a stranger to the language, could not but be in the utmost danger; my concern, therefore, for his preservation, made...
Page 316 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontick sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontick, and the Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond' marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow [Kneels.
Page 191 - It is difficult to -fay, whether the active and ufeful part he . took in the conteft, arofe from perfonal refentment againft the king of Great Britain, or from a regard to the liberties of America. It is certain he reprobated the French alliance and republican forms of government, after he retired from the American fervice.
Page 111 - I had not been long in the area of St. Paul's, when I felt the third shock, which though somewhat less violent than the two former, the sea rushed in again, and retired with the same rapidity, and I remained up to my knees in water, though I had gotten upon a small eminence at some distance from the river, with the ruins of several intervening houses to break its force. At this time I took notice the waters retired so impetuously, that some vessels were left quite dry, which rode in seven...
Page 299 - House is dry enough to burn, it serves them for fuel, and they remove to another. The Habit of the People is very different, according to the qualities or the places they live in, as Low-land or High-land Men. The Low-land Gentry go well enough habited, but the poorer sort go (almost) naked, only an old Cloak, or a part of their Bed-cloaths thrown over them.
Page 392 - Theobald's houfe is now very hot, and hath but few change of rooms, both inconvenient for a fick body : then my lord of Warwick tells me, that, by experience, he hath found Newhall air as good a one to ride away an ague, as...
Page 111 - Lisbon would now meet the same fate which a few years before had befallen the city of Lima ; and no doubt had this place lain open to the sea, and the force of the waves not been somewhat broken by the winding of the bay, the lower parts of it at least would have been totally destroyed. The master of a vessel, which arrived here just after the 1st of November, assured me, that?