The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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... interest , gracefulness , and beauty , -I mean a lady mounted on an ambling palfrey . The philosopher and the gentleman must bow their diminished heads be- fore such an aspiring object . I re- member the first time I saw the lovely M ...
... interest , gracefulness , and beauty , -I mean a lady mounted on an ambling palfrey . The philosopher and the gentleman must bow their diminished heads be- fore such an aspiring object . I re- member the first time I saw the lovely M ...
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... interest and anima- tion to his description , he had a tem- pest at his command for the accom- plishment of his purposes . These objections , it will readily appear , are founded on the belief that the island of Circe was situated on ...
... interest and anima- tion to his description , he had a tem- pest at his command for the accom- plishment of his purposes . These objections , it will readily appear , are founded on the belief that the island of Circe was situated on ...
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... interest in me having made me a present of a little book , I thought myself compelled in honour to learn her book well , and by so do- ing , prepared myself unconsciously for the reading of the New Testa- ment . Still , however , my ...
... interest in me having made me a present of a little book , I thought myself compelled in honour to learn her book well , and by so do- ing , prepared myself unconsciously for the reading of the New Testa- ment . Still , however , my ...
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... interests , I clearly see , are a ' against us ; yet folk dinna always act according to their interests . In a ... interest , John ? " THEIR MOUTH BITE AFF THEIR NOSE . " Thae folk didna see far afore them , or they wou'dna ha'e ...
... interests , I clearly see , are a ' against us ; yet folk dinna always act according to their interests . In a ... interest , John ? " THEIR MOUTH BITE AFF THEIR NOSE . " Thae folk didna see far afore them , or they wou'dna ha'e ...
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... interests are sae deeply concerned ? Will they no retain their livings at a ' hazards , by grati- fying the caprices o ... interest . And a ' this ye ha'e gi'en awa ' , Thomas , for what ? For naething but a fancy . For ye ha'e owned ...
... interests are sae deeply concerned ? Will they no retain their livings at a ' hazards , by grati- fying the caprices o ... interest . And a ' this ye ha'e gi'en awa ' , Thomas , for what ? For naething but a fancy . For ye ha'e owned ...
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Página 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Página 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Página 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Página 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Página 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Página 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Página 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Página 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o