Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845 - Scotland |
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... whole circles of Dante's Inferno- portraying with terrible fidelity the agonies of the wicked , when the last trumpet shall tear the veil from their faces , and exhibit in undisguised truth that most fearful of spectacles - a naked ...
... whole circles of Dante's Inferno- portraying with terrible fidelity the agonies of the wicked , when the last trumpet shall tear the veil from their faces , and exhibit in undisguised truth that most fearful of spectacles - a naked ...
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... whole world , and a trunkful of French fashions , neither of which , as I reckoned , were likely to take much with us . He made me laugh inwardly twenty times a - day by his Utopian theories and fancies . Truth to tell , in matters of ...
... whole world , and a trunkful of French fashions , neither of which , as I reckoned , were likely to take much with us . He made me laugh inwardly twenty times a - day by his Utopian theories and fancies . Truth to tell , in matters of ...
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... whole shopful of dresses . She made no answer to that ; but when I had the misfortune to tear her third flounce , she said , that if I went on in that way she would not have a whole gown left when she got to Louisville . With a whole ...
... whole shopful of dresses . She made no answer to that ; but when I had the misfortune to tear her third flounce , she said , that if I went on in that way she would not have a whole gown left when she got to Louisville . With a whole ...
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... whole cartloads of wood upon the fire , and stirred and poked away till they were wet through with perspiration , and our chimney began to whistle and sing , that it was a pleasure to hear it . We were just entering the Ohio , the ...
... whole cartloads of wood upon the fire , and stirred and poked away till they were wet through with perspiration , and our chimney began to whistle and sing , that it was a pleasure to hear it . We were just entering the Ohio , the ...
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... whole bodies , making all allowance for your white hide and your citizenship , neither of which , by the way , are much better than they should be . Ten times more , I tell you , and , if you don't believe it , I'll let you know it . A ...
... whole bodies , making all allowance for your white hide and your citizenship , neither of which , by the way , are much better than they should be . Ten times more , I tell you , and , if you don't believe it , I'll let you know it . A ...
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Page 126 - For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 386 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Page 528 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 124 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 503 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty, not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the groundwork, as he pleases.
Page 388 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 271 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 362 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 614 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 391 - Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Muses upward to their spring.