Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... Herat 56 A Gentleman's Love - Letter 601 Perthes , Frederick 303 A Literary Parallelism . 335 Poetry Light and Chaos 5 An Early and Lovely Death 336 Auld Beggarman , The 104 A Poet's Doubts . 657 A Practical Caution . 258 Bride of the ...
... Herat 56 A Gentleman's Love - Letter 601 Perthes , Frederick 303 A Literary Parallelism . 335 Poetry Light and Chaos 5 An Early and Lovely Death 336 Auld Beggarman , The 104 A Poet's Doubts . 657 A Practical Caution . 258 Bride of the ...
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... Herat . The Russians have more obvious reasons for secking to rule in Persia , which they regard with all that affection that the boa- constrictor may be supposed to bestow upon the ox that is straying within the serpent's grasp . The ...
... Herat . The Russians have more obvious reasons for secking to rule in Persia , which they regard with all that affection that the boa- constrictor may be supposed to bestow upon the ox that is straying within the serpent's grasp . The ...
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... HERAT AND THE RUSSIANS IN INDIA . THE geography of central Asia has long been a mythical subject in our seminaries of useful learning . Three - fourths of our people know not what or where Herat is , with any precision . The The Aral ...
... HERAT AND THE RUSSIANS IN INDIA . THE geography of central Asia has long been a mythical subject in our seminaries of useful learning . Three - fourths of our people know not what or where Herat is , with any precision . The The Aral ...
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... Herat , as it has been visible in the Persian policy for many years . war with Persia , and like fire , hostilities once commenced may spread . Russia promises to assist meaning , to devour Persia , and thereby to reach India . Neither ...
... Herat , as it has been visible in the Persian policy for many years . war with Persia , and like fire , hostilities once commenced may spread . Russia promises to assist meaning , to devour Persia , and thereby to reach India . Neither ...
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... Herat ; Herat is a key to Affghanistan ; Affghanistan is a key to India . These are so many facts . Persia is coveted by Russia , and can be conquered easier by protection than by any other means . It must , however , be placed in ...
... Herat ; Herat is a key to Affghanistan ; Affghanistan is a key to India . These are so many facts . Persia is coveted by Russia , and can be conquered easier by protection than by any other means . It must , however , be placed in ...
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Page 20 - We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : It is the same ! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free : Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Page 337 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 295 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech : Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 99 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start...
Page 21 - Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God...
Page 19 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 17 - He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Page 461 - Committee seem to have entertained some alarm as to the high rate of speed which had been spoken of, and proceeded to examine the witness further on the subject. They supposed the case of the engine being upset when going at nine miles an hour, and asked what, in such a case, would become of the cargo astern. To which the witness replied, that it would not be upset. One of the members of the Committee pressed the witness a little further.
Page 403 - So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's granary is full, And the harvest's done. 1 see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.