Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 57W. Blackwood., 1845 |
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... honour of having given him birth , but seventy nations have since been moulded by his produc- tions . He gave a mythology to the ancients ; he has given the fine arts to the modern world . Jupiter , Sa- turn , Mars , Juno , are still ...
... honour of having given him birth , but seventy nations have since been moulded by his produc- tions . He gave a mythology to the ancients ; he has given the fine arts to the modern world . Jupiter , Sa- turn , Mars , Juno , are still ...
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... honour of the Helen M'Gregor . ' " The captain stood there as if his face had been rubbed over with chalk , and the drops of sweat ran down his forehead . The five steamers that we had passed were now hurraing with delight to see that ...
... honour of the Helen M'Gregor . ' " The captain stood there as if his face had been rubbed over with chalk , and the drops of sweat ran down his forehead . The five steamers that we had passed were now hurraing with delight to see that ...
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... honour of a ship was at stake ! " " Pshaw ! The honour of a steam- boat ! " " Pshaw , do you say , Richards ? Well , if I didn't know you to be a thoroughbred Virginian , hang me if I should not almost take you for one of those ...
... honour of a ship was at stake ! " " Pshaw ! The honour of a steam- boat ! " " Pshaw , do you say , Richards ? Well , if I didn't know you to be a thoroughbred Virginian , hang me if I should not almost take you for one of those ...
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... honour , burning shame , Revenge , and hate , and patriotic pride ! But not the quick unerring aim Of volley'd thunder winged with flame , Nor famine keener than the bird of prey , Nor death - avail the hard of heart to tame ! Blow wind ...
... honour , burning shame , Revenge , and hate , and patriotic pride ! But not the quick unerring aim Of volley'd thunder winged with flame , Nor famine keener than the bird of prey , Nor death - avail the hard of heart to tame ! Blow wind ...
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... honour of a presentation . He is a very ordinary- looking personage ; and , as the powers of language were wanting ... honours . In the billiard - room the walls are hung with arms , though some of these were now absent on service . I ...
... honour of a presentation . He is a very ordinary- looking personage ; and , as the powers of language were wanting ... honours . In the billiard - room the walls are hung with arms , though some of these were now absent on service . I ...
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Página 395 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 376 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 130 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 392 - First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Página 392 - Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Página 153 - What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at...
Página 632 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Página 128 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 488 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 397 - Some beauties yet no Precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. ( Music resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. ) '45 If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky Licence answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule.