Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen 34W. Blackwood & Sons, 1833 |
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... popular caprice to the height of popular con- fidence , and was now to be flung down by the mere action of the surge . The people of Bristol , cla- mouring for the rights and wrongs of America , became suddenly indignant at finding ...
... popular caprice to the height of popular con- fidence , and was now to be flung down by the mere action of the surge . The people of Bristol , cla- mouring for the rights and wrongs of America , became suddenly indignant at finding ...
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... popular bribe . But the violence which re- forms by tearing down , and the co- vetousness which purifies by rapine , were equally alien to the mind of this great leader . In declaring change necessary , he stopped at the portal of the ...
... popular bribe . But the violence which re- forms by tearing down , and the co- vetousness which purifies by rapine , were equally alien to the mind of this great leader . In declaring change necessary , he stopped at the portal of the ...
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... popular writers seized on exciting topics , and loved to lavish their eloquence on the vices of the great , while those writers , and every man in France besides , were practising the same vices to the full extent of their means . But ...
... popular writers seized on exciting topics , and loved to lavish their eloquence on the vices of the great , while those writers , and every man in France besides , were practising the same vices to the full extent of their means . But ...
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... popular feeling to which he bowed down . He went on in his career of meagre saving and capacious ruin . The stoppage of the royal expenditure was instantly felt by the thousands and tens of thousands , in their various shapes of artists ...
... popular feeling to which he bowed down . He went on in his career of meagre saving and capacious ruin . The stoppage of the royal expenditure was instantly felt by the thousands and tens of thousands , in their various shapes of artists ...
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... popular election . The Borough of Malton sent him to Par- liament for the remainder of his life ; and , much more receiving than giving honour by the choice , put to shame the mob - ridden city which had so rashly rejected him . But The ...
... popular election . The Borough of Malton sent him to Par- liament for the remainder of his life ; and , much more receiving than giving honour by the choice , put to shame the mob - ridden city which had so rashly rejected him . But The ...
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Página 311 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 312 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Página 320 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as...
Página 77 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 46 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Página 320 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew, from every quarter, whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Página 35 - ... temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of...
Página 311 - Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub, And bush with frizzled hair implicit : Last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemm'd Their blossoms: With high .woods the hills were crown'd ; With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side ; With borders long the rivers : that Earth now Seem'd like to Heaven, a seat where Gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and love to haunt Her sacred shades...
Página 464 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, , To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain...
Página 35 - He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or...