The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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... course , from east to west . This range is the highest ground in the country , and , conse- quently , forms the dividing ridge be- tween the streams which run south and those which run north . The lat- ter rise on the northern declivity ...
... course , from east to west . This range is the highest ground in the country , and , conse- quently , forms the dividing ridge be- tween the streams which run south and those which run north . The lat- ter rise on the northern declivity ...
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... course , invisible . After an overture from a most mi- serable orchestra , in which there was neither time nor tune , nor any thing like tolerable music , the curtain ( on which was a very clever painting ) drew up , and a little ...
... course , invisible . After an overture from a most mi- serable orchestra , in which there was neither time nor tune , nor any thing like tolerable music , the curtain ( on which was a very clever painting ) drew up , and a little ...
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... course it is distinguished from the ocean it traverses by its deeper blue colour , rapidity of its motion , greater saltness , and particularly by its higher temperature . The following facts re- garding this current , communicated to ...
... course it is distinguished from the ocean it traverses by its deeper blue colour , rapidity of its motion , greater saltness , and particularly by its higher temperature . The following facts re- garding this current , communicated to ...
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... course ; it brought its head and its tail very close together , and the two extremities were seen moving rapidly in opposite directions . This fact alone affords complete proof that the animal was no Squalus ; certainly not the Squalus ...
... course ; it brought its head and its tail very close together , and the two extremities were seen moving rapidly in opposite directions . This fact alone affords complete proof that the animal was no Squalus ; certainly not the Squalus ...
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... course , and brought her closer to me than any of the other riders had passed . I had , therefore , a full view of her uncommonly fine face and person , to which an inexpres sible charm was added by the wild gaiety of the scene , and ...
... course , and brought her closer to me than any of the other riders had passed . I had , therefore , a full view of her uncommonly fine face and person , to which an inexpres sible charm was added by the wild gaiety of the scene , and ...
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Página 223 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 367 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Página 63 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Página 462 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Página 569 - Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; To think what a long line of titles may follow The relics of him who died — friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the fun'ral array Of one whom they shunn'd in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket, to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles, to-morrow...
Página 462 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 569 - Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Página 163 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Página 341 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Página 341 - Rede as the bristles of a sowes eres. His nose-thirles blacke were and wide. A swerd and bokeler bare he by his side. His mouth as wide was as a forneis. He was a jangler, and a goliardeis, And that was most of sinne, and harlotries.