Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10William Blackwood, 1821 - England |
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... Royal Coronation . described to me how the floor of the platform was to be covered with broad cloth , which both of us agreed was a most commendable encouragement of trade , on the part of his most gracious majesty ; and we thought ...
... Royal Coronation . described to me how the floor of the platform was to be covered with broad cloth , which both of us agreed was a most commendable encouragement of trade , on the part of his most gracious majesty ; and we thought ...
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... royal table , which had a world of pains bestowed on it - divers gentlemen measuring with foot - rules the length and the breadth thereof that was to be allowed for the dishes , no jooking the tithe of an inch in the placing of the very ...
... royal table , which had a world of pains bestowed on it - divers gentlemen measuring with foot - rules the length and the breadth thereof that was to be allowed for the dishes , no jooking the tithe of an inch in the placing of the very ...
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... royal robes , endured all as well as he could . Two or three times I could plainly see , by the help of a pocket spy - glass a lady lent me , that his Majesty was not overly content with some of the doctrines , which gave me pleasure ...
... royal robes , endured all as well as he could . Two or three times I could plainly see , by the help of a pocket spy - glass a lady lent me , that his Majesty was not overly content with some of the doctrines , which gave me pleasure ...
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... royal Coronation , to have a gaw in the Earl's back , and takes this method to show his power and supremacy within the bounds of the Hall . But the ceremony was , I could see , not relished by those in the Earl Marshal's livery , for ...
... royal Coronation , to have a gaw in the Earl's back , and takes this method to show his power and supremacy within the bounds of the Hall . But the ceremony was , I could see , not relished by those in the Earl Marshal's livery , for ...
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... royal of the Guelf family , making a clean job o't for the bringing in of the Stewarts again . Then she called to her a Knight of the Bath , and a young man of a slen- der nature , one of the servitors , and bade them arrest Glengarry ...
... royal of the Guelf family , making a clean job o't for the bringing in of the Stewarts again . Then she called to her a Knight of the Bath , and a young man of a slen- der nature , one of the servitors , and bade them arrest Glengarry ...
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Page 379 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 306 - But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Page 110 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Page 110 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 110 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 110 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. !$•' Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade...
Page 110 - Oh, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore ; And fhere perhaps some seed is sown The Heracleidan blood might own.
Page 111 - Ave Maria! blessed be the hour, The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft...
Page 107 - Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Page 450 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...