Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 73William Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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Page 36
... living men is TRUTH , that the vilest traitor feels amazed and wronged - feels the pillars of the world shaken , when treason recoils on himself . " That Richard Avenel , whom I trusted , could so deceive me ! " murmured Randal , and ...
... living men is TRUTH , that the vilest traitor feels amazed and wronged - feels the pillars of the world shaken , when treason recoils on himself . " That Richard Avenel , whom I trusted , could so deceive me ! " murmured Randal , and ...
Page 37
... living smile to the face of home ; nothing thereon save a great silver candelabrum , that scarce lighted the spacious room , and brought out the portraits on the walls as a part of the assembly , looking , as portraits do look , with ...
... living smile to the face of home ; nothing thereon save a great silver candelabrum , that scarce lighted the spacious room , and brought out the portraits on the walls as a part of the assembly , looking , as portraits do look , with ...
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... living in the present day , such a designation - im- plying a merit in general , not the partial and limited merit corresponding only with your individual abilities would be presumptuous and offensive . True - I here anticipate the ...
... living in the present day , such a designation - im- plying a merit in general , not the partial and limited merit corresponding only with your individual abilities would be presumptuous and offensive . True - I here anticipate the ...
Page 54
... living Burley . The That society became his curse . Baroness was an accomplished co- quette ; and Levy - with whom , as we have seen , jealousy was the predomi- nant passion - was stretched on an eternal rack . His low estimate of human ...
... living Burley . The That society became his curse . Baroness was an accomplished co- quette ; and Levy - with whom , as we have seen , jealousy was the predomi- nant passion - was stretched on an eternal rack . His low estimate of human ...
Page 59
... living races - a rapt and musing student of the monuments that revive the dead - his experience of mankind grew large in silence , and his percep- tions of the Sublime and Beautiful brightened into tranquil art under their native skies ...
... living races - a rapt and musing student of the monuments that revive the dead - his experience of mankind grew large in silence , and his percep- tions of the Sublime and Beautiful brightened into tranquil art under their native skies ...
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Page 137 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 402 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 409 - ... to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me.
Page 393 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 10 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 143 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands. That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Page 409 - ... to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me, Catcckist.
Page 365 - I told my opponents the only man who could "put me down" was myself, and I trusted I should do nothing to bring about that result. If thrust out of my own pulpit, I made up my mind to lecture from city to city, from town to town, from village to village, nay...
Page 109 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 109 - And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — tt approaches.