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Page 118
... novels of Scott ( which we maintain to be the best ever written ) brightened to the eyes of faithful readers the ... novel that he had never before commanded so vast an audience as in that particular work ; and yet every fresh tale ...
... novels of Scott ( which we maintain to be the best ever written ) brightened to the eyes of faithful readers the ... novel that he had never before commanded so vast an audience as in that particular work ; and yet every fresh tale ...
Page 131
... novel but by no means pleasing feature in a landscape , and very unfitly described by the word " gleam , " which signifies something tran- sient and fitful ; while the following simile- " Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots ...
... novel but by no means pleasing feature in a landscape , and very unfitly described by the word " gleam , " which signifies something tran- sient and fitful ; while the following simile- " Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots ...
Page 144
... novel office assigned to Time , is that of perpet- ually holding out the member , to the neglect of his established duties with his scythe , hour- glass , & c . , in order to exhibit these favoured vocables . Lastly , to fill up the ...
... novel office assigned to Time , is that of perpet- ually holding out the member , to the neglect of his established duties with his scythe , hour- glass , & c . , in order to exhibit these favoured vocables . Lastly , to fill up the ...
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... novel . We have never understood how the closet in the maiden's chamber happened to be a still - room crammed with preserves and house- keeper's dainties ; still less why Porphyro should have occupied himself , during the maiden's first ...
... novel . We have never understood how the closet in the maiden's chamber happened to be a still - room crammed with preserves and house- keeper's dainties ; still less why Porphyro should have occupied himself , during the maiden's first ...
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... novel duty . War is not usually made with policemen , but the regular troops were ineligible , the British forces in Egypt were still under the prevailing con- ditions of dreamland , and there was really no alternative . The departure ...
... novel duty . War is not usually made with policemen , but the regular troops were ineligible , the British forces in Egypt were still under the prevailing con- ditions of dreamland , and there was really no alternative . The departure ...
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Page 142 - Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 154 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 125 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Page 140 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Page 150 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Page 146 - UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES Whenas in silks my Julia goes Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; O how that glittering taketh me!
Page 142 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves...
Page 21 - STEPHENS. The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, Field-Worker, and Cattle-man. Illustrated with numerous Portraits of Animals and Engravings of Implements, and Plans of Farm Buildings. Fourth Edition. Revised, and in great part Re-written, by JAMES MACDONALD, FRSE, Secretary Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
Page 15 - Goethe's Faust. Part II. Translated into English Verse. Second Edition, Revised. Fcap. 8vo, 6s. The Works of Horace. Translated into English Verse, with Life and Notes.
Page 38 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.