Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 134William Blackwood, 1883 - England |
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Page 43
... heart with joy ? Ah , woeful case , If all it gave me once of joy and gladness Is now to me made greater grief and sadness ! Son , those last duties now to thee I pay , The which thy youth to me more justly owes ; Farewell , farewell ...
... heart with joy ? Ah , woeful case , If all it gave me once of joy and gladness Is now to me made greater grief and sadness ! Son , those last duties now to thee I pay , The which thy youth to me more justly owes ; Farewell , farewell ...
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... heart and spirit by its grace . Here that fair youth was seen , whom pitiless The discus slew , to hyacinth now turned ; He too whom to his death did madness press , Poor wretch ! while for himself he vainly burned ; And he from whom ...
... heart and spirit by its grace . Here that fair youth was seen , whom pitiless The discus slew , to hyacinth now turned ; He too whom to his death did madness press , Poor wretch ! while for himself he vainly burned ; And he from whom ...
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And he from whom thy heart sweet love's distress , O beauteous goddess soft and courteous ! learned , By whom from Mars , and Vulcan too , beguiled Thou thy third heaven didst change for sylvan wild . Here nard , acanthus , crocus ...
And he from whom thy heart sweet love's distress , O beauteous goddess soft and courteous ! learned , By whom from Mars , and Vulcan too , beguiled Thou thy third heaven didst change for sylvan wild . Here nard , acanthus , crocus ...
Page 48
... heart . But while he gazes , Francardo's voice summons him harshly to dis- mount , and offer sacrifice to the image ; confessing the while that none but he who thus presides over her worship is worthy to be her lover . " Who art thou ...
... heart . But while he gazes , Francardo's voice summons him harshly to dis- mount , and offer sacrifice to the image ; confessing the while that none but he who thus presides over her worship is worthy to be her lover . " Who art thou ...
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... heart , and bade it torturing anguish feel ; With open force death to its griefs afford , Now all its hopes are lying dead , kind steel ; Sweet , as the first was grievous , ending woe Shall be that second and yet mightier blow . But ...
... heart , and bade it torturing anguish feel ; With open force death to its griefs afford , Now all its hopes are lying dead , kind steel ; Sweet , as the first was grievous , ending woe Shall be that second and yet mightier blow . But ...
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Page 27 - For from the rising of the sun even to the going down...
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Page 597 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord, against the mighty.
Page 246 - My master at first laughed at me ; but, when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on : and that I might make fair copies in the day-time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect for the memory of that man.
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Page 579 - Nothing impossible was ever introduced, nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was, of course, my own hero. Such is a necessity of castle-building. But I never became a king, or a duke— much less, when my height and personal appearance were fixed, could I be an Antinous, or six feet high.