The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 - English literature |
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... mind , when it is brought steadily to bear upon any subject , and methods may be discovered , which even Mr Owen has been unable to hit upon . The great thing , as we have said , is to bring all the classes of society into contact , and ...
... mind , when it is brought steadily to bear upon any subject , and methods may be discovered , which even Mr Owen has been unable to hit upon . The great thing , as we have said , is to bring all the classes of society into contact , and ...
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... mind for whom these had been reserv- ed - for two at the most - for Chaucer and Shakespeare . Chaucer has paint- ed the external appearances and bear- ings of the moral map of English manners - Shakespeare has given all the glow of ...
... mind for whom these had been reserv- ed - for two at the most - for Chaucer and Shakespeare . Chaucer has paint- ed the external appearances and bear- ings of the moral map of English manners - Shakespeare has given all the glow of ...
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... mind directed to greater discoveries . With this view he pub- lished , in 1605 , his two books on the Advancement of Learning , which he dedicated to James I .; and in 1609 , his Instauratio Magna , called Novum Organon , a title taken ...
... mind directed to greater discoveries . With this view he pub- lished , in 1605 , his two books on the Advancement of Learning , which he dedicated to James I .; and in 1609 , his Instauratio Magna , called Novum Organon , a title taken ...
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... mind that ; and that baith it and O'er Bogie were cried down at Edin- burgh cross on the same day . ' From this tradition I have been led to suppose that the original song of O'er Bogie must have been some intemperate party song , al ...
... mind that ; and that baith it and O'er Bogie were cried down at Edin- burgh cross on the same day . ' From this tradition I have been led to suppose that the original song of O'er Bogie must have been some intemperate party song , al ...
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... mind from vulgar and sordid motives . 2. WISHES AND WILL . " Distin- guish in thyself and others between wishes and will in the strictest sense . Who has many wishes has generally but little will . Who has energy of will has few ...
... mind from vulgar and sordid motives . 2. WISHES AND WILL . " Distin- guish in thyself and others between wishes and will in the strictest sense . Who has many wishes has generally but little will . Who has energy of will has few ...
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Page 244 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 245 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Page 243 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Page 46 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 243 - We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire. Who in their nightly watchful spheres Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Page 245 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 244 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Page 243 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Page 242 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 29 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...