Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 39W. Blackwood, 1836 |
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... thoughts , I could believe - No ! ' tis impossible . Henriquez had sent a Friar to Antonio , and now he has sent for ... thought . The bliss of heaven for me ! incongruous hope ! My soul , my fancy , yea my very will Is link'd to misery ...
... thoughts , I could believe - No ! ' tis impossible . Henriquez had sent a Friar to Antonio , and now he has sent for ... thought . The bliss of heaven for me ! incongruous hope ! My soul , my fancy , yea my very will Is link'd to misery ...
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... thought Work'd to a semblance of consistent truth , Which , but for this - Base , black ingratitude ! Passing all crimes , detested , monstrous ! ( Beating his forehead violently as he strides rapidly away ) . This base , believing ...
... thought Work'd to a semblance of consistent truth , Which , but for this - Base , black ingratitude ! Passing all crimes , detested , monstrous ! ( Beating his forehead violently as he strides rapidly away ) . This base , believing ...
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... thought of La Force and his family . But how to warn them was the diffi- culty . There was no bridge at that time connecting the Louvre with the Faubourg , and the boats had been all seized already to carry over the troops who were to ...
... thought of La Force and his family . But how to warn them was the diffi- culty . There was no bridge at that time connecting the Louvre with the Faubourg , and the boats had been all seized already to carry over the troops who were to ...
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... thought , mortally , and unwilling to wait the chances of the law in a time when all was party , imme- diately left the capital behind . This was but three days before the ex- plosion . On his way he made a re- mark which has been so ...
... thought , mortally , and unwilling to wait the chances of the law in a time when all was party , imme- diately left the capital behind . This was but three days before the ex- plosion . On his way he made a re- mark which has been so ...
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... thought fit to enlighten the party with tales of Parisian scandal , all which were received with great laughter ... thoughts besides . And now he comes to tell me of it , only that he may betray us both alike . I shall have the fellow ...
... thought fit to enlighten the party with tales of Parisian scandal , all which were received with great laughter ... thoughts besides . And now he comes to tell me of it , only that he may betray us both alike . I shall have the fellow ...
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Page 350 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace : She, crown'd with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing ; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Page 108 - Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Page 252 - If cold white mortals censure this great deed, Warn them, they judge not of superior beings, Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Page 350 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 103 - America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man ; and, in his eyes, what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.
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Page 232 - Without a crime, th' ungrateful Greeks betray, Reveal the secrets of the guilty state, And justly punish whom I justly hate! But you, O king, preserve the faith you gave, If I, to save myself, your empire save. The Grecian hopes, and all th' attempts they made* Were only founded on Minerva's aid.
Page 105 - Americans of their climate or of their inland seas, of their great rivers or of their exuberant soil. Nor will bad laws, revolutions, and anarchy, be able to obliterate that love of prosperity and that spirit of enterprise which seem to be the distinctive characteristics of their race, or to extinguish that knowledge which guides them on their way.
Page 108 - The Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the citizens; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm: the principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter servitude.
Page 329 - Royal sanction for constituting a corporation by the name of " The Governor and Company of the Bank of England.