Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 104William Blackwood, 1868 - England |
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... thing , either from the fault of the writer which is scarcely to be supposed -or from his own . This dim being was , however , young when the two met . He was , we are told , " a first- rate scholar . " " Polite literature was his ...
... thing , either from the fault of the writer which is scarcely to be supposed -or from his own . This dim being was , however , young when the two met . He was , we are told , " a first- rate scholar . " " Polite literature was his ...
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... thing I'll ever say to you . This is telling you sincerely my greatest weakness ; and now I will oblige you with a new proof of generosity -I'll never see you more . I shall avoid all public places , and this is the last letter I shall ...
... thing I'll ever say to you . This is telling you sincerely my greatest weakness ; and now I will oblige you with a new proof of generosity -I'll never see you more . I shall avoid all public places , and this is the last letter I shall ...
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... things , and five hundred more , convince me ( as I have the most profound veneration for the Author of Nature ) ... thing present , but it cuts off all future hopes , and makes your very ex- pectations melancholy . Quelle vie ! " My ...
... things , and five hundred more , convince me ( as I have the most profound veneration for the Author of Nature ) ... thing present , but it cuts off all future hopes , and makes your very ex- pectations melancholy . Quelle vie ! " My ...
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... thing to do . And no doubt the unsympathetic , respectable critic wonders much how she could have left the every- day life , which was so tempting , and Mr Wortley's sweet society- why she could not have taken to knotting , and to ...
... thing to do . And no doubt the unsympathetic , respectable critic wonders much how she could have left the every- day life , which was so tempting , and Mr Wortley's sweet society- why she could not have taken to knotting , and to ...
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... thing . He would subdue his own will , but he could not be expected to counteract the aid of circum- stances . So he drew her still closer to him , and talked of any- thing but of that which he had come to say . The received from the ...
... thing . He would subdue his own will , but he could not be expected to counteract the aid of circum- stances . So he drew her still closer to him , and talked of any- thing but of that which he had come to say . The received from the ...
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Page 228 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 245 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 450 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 244 - Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner...
Page 229 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude, the day ; As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Page 15 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time they are as well as before their illness.
Page 240 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 268 - Lochiel — who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend — may stay at home and learn from the newspapers the fate of his Prince !
Page 436 - Instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions: being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil.
Page 446 - About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.