Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... half of our seamen came home for the winter . Agri- cultural operations went lazily onwards at that time . The building trades stayed their movements until spring . Mankind imitated the earth and its vegetables . They were still while ...
... half of our seamen came home for the winter . Agri- cultural operations went lazily onwards at that time . The building trades stayed their movements until spring . Mankind imitated the earth and its vegetables . They were still while ...
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... half an hour and half a mile's walk . Their beauty is past all doubt , and they carry back many thousand pairs of care - worn dim eyes , back , far back through merry days and nights - to home and boyhood , and braes and glens , and ...
... half an hour and half a mile's walk . Their beauty is past all doubt , and they carry back many thousand pairs of care - worn dim eyes , back , far back through merry days and nights - to home and boyhood , and braes and glens , and ...
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... half explored regions , for the instruction of the vicinity , illus- trated with maps , or magic lanterns , or small panoramic mechanisms , and art ; yet the lecturers generally seem to be ashamed of themselves - keep well out of the ...
... half explored regions , for the instruction of the vicinity , illus- trated with maps , or magic lanterns , or small panoramic mechanisms , and art ; yet the lecturers generally seem to be ashamed of themselves - keep well out of the ...
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... half - sweet , half - sad , over early sorrows . Called up by memory , by a spell potent as hers of Endor , from the graves that Time delves for all joys that would else make man too loath to leave this weary world , come , hand in hand ...
... half - sweet , half - sad , over early sorrows . Called up by memory , by a spell potent as hers of Endor , from the graves that Time delves for all joys that would else make man too loath to leave this weary world , come , hand in hand ...
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... half in vain - a summer evening , he sings , in love's wisdom wise , BROKEN MEMORIES . BROKEN MEMORIES . present , in their. grave with its white headstone in strong relief against the twilight sky , where her mother sleeps in death ...
... half in vain - a summer evening , he sings , in love's wisdom wise , BROKEN MEMORIES . BROKEN MEMORIES . present , in their. grave with its white headstone in strong relief against the twilight sky , where her mother sleeps in death ...
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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.