Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 20W. Blackwood, 1826 - England |
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countenance into whatever room may be allotted to you ; but should there appear to be no great bustle before the white - washed front , then ask to be shown up to either of the two pretty bow - windowed parlours , that open into the ...
countenance into whatever room may be allotted to you ; but should there appear to be no great bustle before the white - washed front , then ask to be shown up to either of the two pretty bow - windowed parlours , that open into the ...
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... appear as ridiculously absurd , as it is notoriously untrue . That understand- ing and judgment , the operation of which was not here , as in political matters , overlaid by the malevolence of party spirit , might have sufficed to show ...
... appear as ridiculously absurd , as it is notoriously untrue . That understand- ing and judgment , the operation of which was not here , as in political matters , overlaid by the malevolence of party spirit , might have sufficed to show ...
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... appear to be well provided with instrumental performers . " As to the state of the music , ( thus he writes to his ... appears to me to be always hurt by much accompaniment . " What he means by setting the performers in the right way ...
... appear to be well provided with instrumental performers . " As to the state of the music , ( thus he writes to his ... appears to me to be always hurt by much accompaniment . " What he means by setting the performers in the right way ...
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... appear on the s appearance was always & I freed the wo- who , Though seves in por mill how and when The sketches out of School for Scandal grew a finished a comedy , are inter show , according to the bi just , but not very novel ob the ...
... appear on the s appearance was always & I freed the wo- who , Though seves in por mill how and when The sketches out of School for Scandal grew a finished a comedy , are inter show , according to the bi just , but not very novel ob the ...
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... appear by no means destitute of either beauty or propriety . " If dying excellence deserves a tear , " is one , and he points to another in one of the Duenna's songs , — " As some fond widow o'er her babe deploring , Wakes its beauties ...
... appear by no means destitute of either beauty or propriety . " If dying excellence deserves a tear , " is one , and he points to another in one of the Duenna's songs , — " As some fond widow o'er her babe deploring , Wakes its beauties ...
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Page 261 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 276 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 226 - Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential ; happier far Than miserable to have eternal being : Or, if our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst...
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Page 278 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 276 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails ; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Page 408 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.
Page 246 - While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.
Page 244 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master.