Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen81W. Blackwood & Sons, 1857 |
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... stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing . And the singing was no mechani- cal affair of official routine ; it had a drama . As the moment of psalmody approached , by some process to me as mysterious and untraceable as the ...
... stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing . And the singing was no mechani- cal affair of official routine ; it had a drama . As the moment of psalmody approached , by some process to me as mysterious and untraceable as the ...
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... stand single - handed and sum- mon it to surrender . We read , in- deed , that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sounds of trumpets ; but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble . Doubtless they were trumpets ...
... stand single - handed and sum- mon it to surrender . We read , in- deed , that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sounds of trumpets ; but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble . Doubtless they were trumpets ...
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... stand To. we do not object , provided the critic deals fairly and honourably with his subject . For many years Maga has been a choice repertory of criticism ; but we shall not go the length of say- ing that her judgments have been ...
... stand To. we do not object , provided the critic deals fairly and honourably with his subject . For many years Maga has been a choice repertory of criticism ; but we shall not go the length of say- ing that her judgments have been ...
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" I think I see my father's sister stand To give me welcome . Upon the hall - step of her country - house She stood straight From possible pulses ; brown hair pricked By frigid use of life ( she was not old , Although my father's elder ...
" I think I see my father's sister stand To give me welcome . Upon the hall - step of her country - house She stood straight From possible pulses ; brown hair pricked By frigid use of life ( she was not old , Although my father's elder ...
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... stand the trial , though occasionally threatening to die ; and her patience was at length rewarded by finding her father's books in a garret . These she devoured furtively , and lighting upon the poets , at once perceived her vocation ...
... stand the trial , though occasionally threatening to die ; and her patience was at length rewarded by finding her father's books in a garret . These she devoured furtively , and lighting upon the poets , at once perceived her vocation ...
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Página 264 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 271 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 271 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 516 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 267 - The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice ; hail-stones and coals of fire.
Página 230 - And, generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others
Página 271 - ... teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 362 - The triumph and the vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life...
Página 86 - As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat ; the rat began to gnaw the rope ; the rope began to hang the butcher ; the butcher began to kill the ox ; the ox began to drink the water ; the water began to quench the fire ; the fire began to burn the stick ; the stick began to beat the dog ; the dog began to bite the pig; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile ; and so the old woman got home that night.
Página 157 - The lady seemed to have made a conquest of him at the very outset," said Mr Ely. " I was immensely amused one night at Granby's, when he was telling us her story about her husband's adventures. He said, ' When she told me the tale, I felt I don't know how, — I felt it from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet.