Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen 3Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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John Wilson. WILSON'S MISCELLANIES . CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) FORGIVE US , thou most beautiful of mornings ! for having overslept the assignation hour , and allowed thee to remain all ...
John Wilson. WILSON'S MISCELLANIES . CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) FORGIVE US , thou most beautiful of mornings ! for having overslept the assignation hour , and allowed thee to remain all ...
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... ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) " UPON my honour , sir , my father does not get more than 40 per cent ! " This conscientious and genteel speech haunted me not very long since , during a painful and dangerous illness . It came ...
... ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) " UPON my honour , sir , my father does not get more than 40 per cent ! " This conscientious and genteel speech haunted me not very long since , during a painful and dangerous illness . It came ...
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John Wilson. A PASSAGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY . IN A LETTER TO EUSEBIUS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) I SUPPOSE the " mens sana in corpore sano , " the sound mind in a sound constitution , would be proof at least against weather ...
John Wilson. A PASSAGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY . IN A LETTER TO EUSEBIUS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1838. ) I SUPPOSE the " mens sana in corpore sano , " the sound mind in a sound constitution , would be proof at least against weather ...
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... learning . So that , " take them for all in all , I ne'er shall look upon their like again . " My dear Eusebius , yours as ever . HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , A PASSAGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 111.
... learning . So that , " take them for all in all , I ne'er shall look upon their like again . " My dear Eusebius , yours as ever . HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , A PASSAGE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 111.
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John Wilson. HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1826. ) GENTLE reader ! hast thou been a loving observer of the beautiful uncertain weather of our island - clime ? We do not mean to ask if you have from youth ...
John Wilson. HINTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS . ( Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , 1826. ) GENTLE reader ! hast thou been a loving observer of the beautiful uncertain weather of our island - clime ? We do not mean to ask if you have from youth ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 49 - Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 341 - OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night...
Página 45 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love...
Página 48 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest noW.
Página 45 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Página 44 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Página 43 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Página 334 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ;' Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Página 335 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Página 46 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.