Noctes ambrosianaeBlackwood, 1855 |
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... spirits , at times , is maist outrawgeous - his wut incessant - and the verra een o ' him gleg as wummles , mair than I can thole , for hours thegither fixed on mine , as gin he wushed to bore a hole through a body's head , frae oss ...
... spirits , at times , is maist outrawgeous - his wut incessant - and the verra een o ' him gleg as wummles , mair than I can thole , for hours thegither fixed on mine , as gin he wushed to bore a hole through a body's head , frae oss ...
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... Spirit of the West . St Mungo's cathedral , you know , is at the bottom - and near it the monument of John Knox - almost as great a reformer in his day as I in mine ; and had the West India trade then flourished , no doubt he had been ...
... Spirit of the West . St Mungo's cathedral , you know , is at the bottom - and near it the monument of John Knox - almost as great a reformer in his day as I in mine ; and had the West India trade then flourished , no doubt he had been ...
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... Spirit o ' Sardanapalus after Apo- theosis . Sae intense is the luxury , that it gars me unawaures use lang - nebbed classical words , in preference to my mither tongue , which seems ower puir - like and impovereeshed for geein adequate ...
... Spirit o ' Sardanapalus after Apo- theosis . Sae intense is the luxury , that it gars me unawaures use lang - nebbed classical words , in preference to my mither tongue , which seems ower puir - like and impovereeshed for geein adequate ...
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... outower a ' the hills , trees , or castles . Tickler . Would you believe it , Hogg , that it is no unusual 1 Poo'r - power . 2 Grue - shudder . 62 DELICATE SPIRIT OF THE NOCTES . thing for droves He wanted Imagination,
... outower a ' the hills , trees , or castles . Tickler . Would you believe it , Hogg , that it is no unusual 1 Poo'r - power . 2 Grue - shudder . 62 DELICATE SPIRIT OF THE NOCTES . thing for droves He wanted Imagination,
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John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. 62 DELICATE SPIRIT OF THE NOCTES . thing for droves of numbskulls to come driving along these lobbies , poking their low - browed stupidities into every par- lour , hoping to ... Spirit of the Noctes,
John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. 62 DELICATE SPIRIT OF THE NOCTES . thing for droves of numbskulls to come driving along these lobbies , poking their low - browed stupidities into every par- lour , hoping to ... Spirit of the Noctes,
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Page 279 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 164 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell.
Page 279 - SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages ! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 405 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 416 - ... like lunacy. Under this uncertainty, I deemed it right to communicate to my parents, that, if I were to consider Lord Byron's past conduct as that of a person of sound mind, nothing could induce me to return to him.
Page 405 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 100 - ... the fulfilment of their fear ; For he must die who is their stay, Their glory disappear. A Power is passing from the earth To breathless Nature's dark abyss ; But when the great and good depart What is it more than this — That Man, who is from God sent forth, Doth yet again to God return ? — Such ebb and flow must ever be, Then wherefore should we mourn ? 1 1806. VI. LINES WRITTEN, NOVEMBER 13, 1814, ON A BLANK LEAF IN 1 COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S POEM " THE EXCURSION," UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH...
Page 265 - ... all thoughts are in themselves imperishable ; and that, if the intelligent faculty should be rendered more comprehensive, it would require only a different and apportioned organization, the body celestial instead of the body terrestrial, to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence. And this — this, perchance, is the dread Book of Judgment, in whose mysterious hieroglyphics every idle word is recorded...
Page 168 - early to bed and early to rise, is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Page 364 - And what reasons are given for a judgment so directly opposed to every principle of sound and manly morality ? Merely this, that he cannot abide the sight of their apparatus ; that, from certain peculiar associations, he is affected with disgust when he passes by their shops.