Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 6W. Blackwood., 1820 - England |
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... living , listening , moving world - the very music of its words is like the melancholy mysterious breath of something sung to the sleeping ear - its images have the beauty - the grandeur - the inco- herence of some mighty vision . The ...
... living , listening , moving world - the very music of its words is like the melancholy mysterious breath of something sung to the sleeping ear - its images have the beauty - the grandeur - the inco- herence of some mighty vision . The ...
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... living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart , And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint took pity on me , And I blessed them unaware . The self same moment I could pray ; And from my ...
... living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart , And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint took pity on me , And I blessed them unaware . The self same moment I could pray ; And from my ...
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... living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart , And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint took pity on me , And I blessed them unaware . The self same moment I could pray ; And from my ...
... living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart , And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint took pity on me , And I blessed them unaware . The self same moment I could pray ; And from my ...
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... living light of day ; Sad , in the stranger's land , thou may'st sustain A weary life of servitude and pain , With wasted eye gaze on the orient beam , And think of these white rocks and torrent - stream , Lightsome of heart as gay of ...
... living light of day ; Sad , in the stranger's land , thou may'st sustain A weary life of servitude and pain , With wasted eye gaze on the orient beam , And think of these white rocks and torrent - stream , Lightsome of heart as gay of ...
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... living men , the Erskine , and Walker , and Black , of our metropolis , who maintained ; throughout the whole of their history , the aspect of sacredness , and gave every hour of their existence to its contem- plations and its labours ...
... living men , the Erskine , and Walker , and Black , of our metropolis , who maintained ; throughout the whole of their history , the aspect of sacredness , and gave every hour of their existence to its contem- plations and its labours ...
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Page 187 - Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow, Enough if in our hearts we know There's such a place as Yarrow.
Page 59 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 38 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Page 181 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 272 - And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias : who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.