Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 56W. Blackwood., 1844 - England |
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Page 63
... father , dear father ! and dost thou not hear What the Erlie - king whispers so low in mine ear ? " " Calm thee , my boy , ' tis only the breeze Rustling the dry leaves beneath the trees ! " " Wilt thou go , bonny boy ! wilt thou go ...
... father , dear father ! and dost thou not hear What the Erlie - king whispers so low in mine ear ? " " Calm thee , my boy , ' tis only the breeze Rustling the dry leaves beneath the trees ! " " Wilt thou go , bonny boy ! wilt thou go ...
Page 64
... father , dear father ! he's grasping me— My heart is as cold as cold can be ! " The father rides swiftly - with terror he gasps- The sobbing child in his arms he clasps ; He reaches the castle with spurring and dread ; But , alack ! in ...
... father , dear father ! he's grasping me— My heart is as cold as cold can be ! " The father rides swiftly - with terror he gasps- The sobbing child in his arms he clasps ; He reaches the castle with spurring and dread ; But , alack ! in ...
Page 67
... Father Asan ; ' Tis thy brother Pintorovich coming ! " And the wife of Asan turn'd to meet him ; Sobbing , threw her ... father's dwelling , Spurr'd he onward with the woful lady . Short the space ; seven days , but barely seven- Little ...
... Father Asan ; ' Tis thy brother Pintorovich coming ! " And the wife of Asan turn'd to meet him ; Sobbing , threw her ... father's dwelling , Spurr'd he onward with the woful lady . Short the space ; seven days , but barely seven- Little ...
Page 94
... father , lately deceased . Her mother she had lost when she was but a child ; so that the education of the daughter had fallen wholly into the hands of the father . " During the lifetime even of the old knight , many suitors had offered ...
... father , lately deceased . Her mother she had lost when she was but a child ; so that the education of the daughter had fallen wholly into the hands of the father . " During the lifetime even of the old knight , many suitors had offered ...
Page 121
... father's cares had absorbed all other thoughts ; and the letter was to me a blank in that know- ledge for which I panted , as the hart pants for the fountains . Still , I was not dead to the calls of friendship ; and that night's mail ...
... father's cares had absorbed all other thoughts ; and the letter was to me a blank in that know- ledge for which I panted , as the hart pants for the fountains . Still , I was not dead to the calls of friendship ; and that night's mail ...
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Page 312 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 122 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 390 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 393 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 235 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Page 539 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.
Page 266 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 185 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 623 - She has thrown her bonnet by, And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow : Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping While she rocketh to and fro.
Page 114 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.