Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74W. Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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... remarkable men , and especially of renowned monarchs , are very variously affected by the lapse of time . A retrospective glance through centuries shows them to us alternately magnified or diminished . For some , although a brilliant ...
... remarkable men , and especially of renowned monarchs , are very variously affected by the lapse of time . A retrospective glance through centuries shows them to us alternately magnified or diminished . For some , although a brilliant ...
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... remarkable for their manufactur- ing and commercial intelligence and success , than were their rural brethren for their proficiency in agriculture . By irrefragable documents - despatches and memorials from government offi- cials ...
... remarkable for their manufactur- ing and commercial intelligence and success , than were their rural brethren for their proficiency in agriculture . By irrefragable documents - despatches and memorials from government offi- cials ...
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... remarkable man , the pea- sant leader of a Protestant insurrec- tion , which some of the best generals in France were long unable to quell . We speak of Jean Cavalier , the hero of the Cevennes . When Marshal Vil- lars , summoned from ...
... remarkable man , the pea- sant leader of a Protestant insurrec- tion , which some of the best generals in France were long unable to quell . We speak of Jean Cavalier , the hero of the Cevennes . When Marshal Vil- lars , summoned from ...
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... remarkable distinction , a stately person , and a handsome coun- tenance . This manliness of character was instantly brought into demand . The Spanish insurrection of the 2d of May 1808 was a thunder - clap . It showed that there was an ...
... remarkable distinction , a stately person , and a handsome coun- tenance . This manliness of character was instantly brought into demand . The Spanish insurrection of the 2d of May 1808 was a thunder - clap . It showed that there was an ...
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... remarkable talent of Anna de la Grange and Cruvelli , meritoriously supported by Belletti , Rossi , and others of less note , shown renewed vitality , and has once more attracted those fashionable au- diences which formerly it never ...
... remarkable talent of Anna de la Grange and Cruvelli , meritoriously supported by Belletti , Rossi , and others of less note , shown renewed vitality , and has once more attracted those fashionable au- diences which formerly it never ...
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Page 314 - And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad...
Page 314 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 309 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 590 - ... the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...
Page 458 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
Page 498 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 180 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 300 - Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say, there is no sin but to be rich ; And being rich, my virtue then shall...
Page 130 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood.
Page 456 - What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble : or be alive again.