Spirit of the English Magazines, Volumen14Munroe and Francis, 1824 |
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... whole period of one hundred and fifty years , tradition had recorded only one single Schroll as having borne a doubtful character : he indeed , as many persons affirmed , had dealt with the devil . Certain it is that there was still ...
... whole period of one hundred and fifty years , tradition had recorded only one single Schroll as having borne a doubtful character : he indeed , as many persons affirmed , had dealt with the devil . Certain it is that there was still ...
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... whole that I have destroyed this accur- sed book . He , that wrote it , never prospered ; all traditions agree in that ; -why then leave to one's descendants a miserable legacy of unhallowed mys- teries ? This excuse , however , did not ...
... whole that I have destroyed this accur- sed book . He , that wrote it , never prospered ; all traditions agree in that ; -why then leave to one's descendants a miserable legacy of unhallowed mys- teries ? This excuse , however , did not ...
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... whole monstrous had taken to evil courses . In the back shape . Moreover , he remembered that ground stood the bleeding father of his wicked counsellor had himself these ruined children , one hand stretch- thought it necessary to exhort ...
... whole monstrous had taken to evil courses . In the back shape . Moreover , he remembered that ground stood the bleeding father of his wicked counsellor had himself these ruined children , one hand stretch- thought it necessary to exhort ...
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... whole of his life from the first trial he had made of the dice . From them had arisen all his misfor- tunes . In what way could he liberate himself from their accursed influence ? -Revolving this point , and in the deepest distress of ...
... whole of his life from the first trial he had made of the dice . From them had arisen all his misfor- tunes . In what way could he liberate himself from their accursed influence ? -Revolving this point , and in the deepest distress of ...
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... whole past life one only transaction , the murder of his first wife , he thought himself jus- tified in concealing ; since , with all his penitence for it , that act was now be- yond the possibility of reparation . For a long time the ...
... whole past life one only transaction , the murder of his first wife , he thought himself jus- tified in concealing ; since , with all his penitence for it , that act was now be- yond the possibility of reparation . For a long time the ...
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Página 100 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 102 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Página 103 - ... curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Página 102 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb...
Página 209 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 166 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Página 103 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Página 166 - He may require to be repressed sometimes — aliquando sufflaminandus erat — but there is no raising her. You send her soup at dinner, and she begs to be helped — after the gentlemen. Mr. requests the honour of taking wine with her; she hesitates between Port and Madeira, and chooses the former — because he does. She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.
Página 43 - Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides...
Página 62 - If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them, and spill little of your own; to their capacity they will all receive, and be full.