The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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... important point in endeavouring to ascertain whether the animal was very young , or had nearly attained its natural size . It was apparently perfect in all its external parts ; but the Com- mittee remark , that all young serpents are so ...
... important point in endeavouring to ascertain whether the animal was very young , or had nearly attained its natural size . It was apparently perfect in all its external parts ; but the Com- mittee remark , that all young serpents are so ...
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... importance , cheering him in his poetical attempts , and zealously propagating his fame ; and though many of those to whom he shewed his verses received them with indifference or condemnation , he continued unshaken in his 1818. ] 39 ...
... importance , cheering him in his poetical attempts , and zealously propagating his fame ; and though many of those to whom he shewed his verses received them with indifference or condemnation , he continued unshaken in his 1818. ] 39 ...
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... important part of the work remains to be consi- dered ; and , although we despair of giving any adequate notion of ... importance that the mind should be engaged in an earnest and candid in- vestigation of the origin and authori- ty of ...
... important part of the work remains to be consi- dered ; and , although we despair of giving any adequate notion of ... importance that the mind should be engaged in an earnest and candid in- vestigation of the origin and authori- ty of ...
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... important public characters of that tempestuous period ; but , not withstanding this , it is no part of Mr Godwin's design to depict the every- day manners of the age , or the giant forms that then figured on the stage , or the ...
... important public characters of that tempestuous period ; but , not withstanding this , it is no part of Mr Godwin's design to depict the every- day manners of the age , or the giant forms that then figured on the stage , or the ...
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... important stage in our progress , for the purpose of observing , that hitherto there has been nothing so romantic in the narrative , so far , at least , as it relates to Mandeville him- self , as to prepare us for what is to follow . On ...
... important stage in our progress , for the purpose of observing , that hitherto there has been nothing so romantic in the narrative , so far , at least , as it relates to Mandeville him- self , as to prepare us for what is to follow . On ...
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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.