The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen 84Archibald Constable and Company, 1819 |
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... letter which I lately re- ceived from a gentleman of high cha- racter and respectability , who was re- sident at Malta during the plague in that island in 1813. You may depend upon the accuracy of his in- formation . - I am , & c ...
... letter which I lately re- ceived from a gentleman of high cha- racter and respectability , who was re- sident at Malta during the plague in that island in 1813. You may depend upon the accuracy of his in- formation . - I am , & c ...
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... letters ; but after being cut , and for a short time exposed to the fumigation arising from burning straw , mixed with various ingredients , of which the most essential are sulphur and vine- gar , the paper may be handled with perfect ...
... letters ; but after being cut , and for a short time exposed to the fumigation arising from burning straw , mixed with various ingredients , of which the most essential are sulphur and vine- gar , the paper may be handled with perfect ...
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... Letter to Lord Kenyon , here for the first time published , though formerly printed for pri- vate distribution , is upon a local subject - the terms of admission in- to the Faculty of Physicians in Lon- don , and might be supposed , on ...
... Letter to Lord Kenyon , here for the first time published , though formerly printed for pri- vate distribution , is upon a local subject - the terms of admission in- to the Faculty of Physicians in Lon- don , and might be supposed , on ...
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... Letters , that they are a tissue of epigrams , we answer , Be it so ; it is for that very reason that we admire them . Again , should any one find fault with Mr Burke's writings as a collection of rhapsodies , the proper answer always ...
... Letters , that they are a tissue of epigrams , we answer , Be it so ; it is for that very reason that we admire them . Again , should any one find fault with Mr Burke's writings as a collection of rhapsodies , the proper answer always ...
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... letters are no sentiments , so far as I recollect , with which I should seriously find fault in the private ... letter it was absurd ; but nothing but an inexcus- able want of judgment would have in- duced any person to put it into print ...
... letters are no sentiments , so far as I recollect , with which I should seriously find fault in the private ... letter it was absurd ; but nothing but an inexcus- able want of judgment would have in- duced any person to put it into print ...
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Página 134 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 326 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Página 325 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Página 252 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Página 326 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains.
Página 328 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
Página 317 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 326 - The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog ; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
Página 326 - ... gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward. As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every one in the country round.
Página 326 - He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name ; but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.