The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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Page 96
... believe they have seen ghosts no sane man ever doubted . And what is usually understood by the word ' ghost ' is , of course , the spirit of a deceased person , which becomes perceptible by one or other of the senses of him who ...
... believe they have seen ghosts no sane man ever doubted . And what is usually understood by the word ' ghost ' is , of course , the spirit of a deceased person , which becomes perceptible by one or other of the senses of him who ...
Page 101
... believe that the promise and the apparition are in some way causally connected . ' Indeed they report that they seem almost driven to suppose 6 ( that the efficacy of the promise depended ' ( 1895 . 101 Modern Magic .
... believe that the promise and the apparition are in some way causally connected . ' Indeed they report that they seem almost driven to suppose 6 ( that the efficacy of the promise depended ' ( 1895 . 101 Modern Magic .
Page 107
... believe that Phinuit and the ' automatist writers ' are intermediaries between the living and the dead we have allowed Professor Lodge to tell us for himself . We find ourselves almost ordered to believe that , at all events , Phinuit ...
... believe that Phinuit and the ' automatist writers ' are intermediaries between the living and the dead we have allowed Professor Lodge to tell us for himself . We find ourselves almost ordered to believe that , at all events , Phinuit ...
Page 111
... believe in ghosts ? ' ' Madam , I have seen too many , ' was the reply . It is with a feeling of a similar kind that we bid farewell to the spiritual Census . When we pay attention to another class of the mysteries on which the Society ...
... believe in ghosts ? ' ' Madam , I have seen too many , ' was the reply . It is with a feeling of a similar kind that we bid farewell to the spiritual Census . When we pay attention to another class of the mysteries on which the Society ...
Page 113
... believe ' in the miraculous which it would have been difficult in the darkest of dark ages to match . 6 We have invited our readers to consider not merely the startling conclusions and the incidental , yet portentous , observations of ...
... believe ' in the miraculous which it would have been difficult in the darkest of dark ages to match . 6 We have invited our readers to consider not merely the startling conclusions and the incidental , yet portentous , observations of ...
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Page 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Page 491 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
Page 527 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
Page 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Page 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.