Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 30W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 - Scotland |
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... possessed ; but now the Mitchells , the Harlans , the Wilsons , the Charles Bonapartes , have repaid with inte- rest the debt which America owed to Europe . The History of the Birds of the United States , by Wilson , al- ready equals in ...
... possessed ; but now the Mitchells , the Harlans , the Wilsons , the Charles Bonapartes , have repaid with inte- rest the debt which America owed to Europe . The History of the Birds of the United States , by Wilson , al- ready equals in ...
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... possession of all that I saw . I was fervently desirous of be- coming acquainted with Nature . For many years , however , I was sadly disap- pointed , and for ever , doubtless , must I have desires that cannot be gratified . The moment ...
... possession of all that I saw . I was fervently desirous of be- coming acquainted with Nature . For many years , however , I was sadly disap- pointed , and for ever , doubtless , must I have desires that cannot be gratified . The moment ...
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... possession of the whole , and had reared a young family amongst the gnawed bits of paper , which , but a few months before , represented nearly a thousand inhabitants of the air !, The burning heat which instantly rushed through my ...
... possession of the whole , and had reared a young family amongst the gnawed bits of paper , which , but a few months before , represented nearly a thousand inhabitants of the air !, The burning heat which instantly rushed through my ...
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... possessions . The wars of York and Lancaster , in which eighty princes of the blood and nine - tenths of the an- cient nobility of England perished , had fearfully thinned the ranks and dimmed the splendour of the Norman aristocracy ...
... possessions . The wars of York and Lancaster , in which eighty princes of the blood and nine - tenths of the an- cient nobility of England perished , had fearfully thinned the ranks and dimmed the splendour of the Norman aristocracy ...
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... possessed an extensive influence in the House of Commons . It was the constant theme of the reformers , that a majo ... possession , has been thrown overboard . The whole counties , with the exception of Salop and Buckinghamshire , have ...
... possessed an extensive influence in the House of Commons . It was the constant theme of the reformers , that a majo ... possession , has been thrown overboard . The whole counties , with the exception of Salop and Buckinghamshire , have ...
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Page 571 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 519 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 518 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 92 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 369 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 369 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 45 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 344 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 343 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Page 571 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.