Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1857 |
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... seemed to be joy but all bitterness proved , And the heart that its wealth of affection had wasted On phantoms had learned to loathe where it loved . De profundis clamavi . My tears unavailing Had moistened a pillow from evening to dawn ...
... seemed to be joy but all bitterness proved , And the heart that its wealth of affection had wasted On phantoms had learned to loathe where it loved . De profundis clamavi . My tears unavailing Had moistened a pillow from evening to dawn ...
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... seemed of night - mares ; yet with their own satisfaction some stray sympathies must have been given to the sorrows of those vegetising friends , whose finer feelings are said to be distressed horribly at the smell of hot joints . It is ...
... seemed of night - mares ; yet with their own satisfaction some stray sympathies must have been given to the sorrows of those vegetising friends , whose finer feelings are said to be distressed horribly at the smell of hot joints . It is ...
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... seemed the only " em- bodied joy " of that deserted place , as he poured forth a sweetly - trilled song in the thankless ears of his " co - mate and brother in exile . " How gloomily had I hated that sweet singer in my selfish sorrow ...
... seemed the only " em- bodied joy " of that deserted place , as he poured forth a sweetly - trilled song in the thankless ears of his " co - mate and brother in exile . " How gloomily had I hated that sweet singer in my selfish sorrow ...
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... seemed to my weariness , as Į toiled down the rugged path , with the Kaffir's brawny arm pressing heavily on one shoulder , while my valued paen did its best to equalise matters as it dangled from my other hand . At length , when I ...
... seemed to my weariness , as Į toiled down the rugged path , with the Kaffir's brawny arm pressing heavily on one shoulder , while my valued paen did its best to equalise matters as it dangled from my other hand . At length , when I ...
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... seemed particularly averse to going out of doors , from which circumstance , and other trifles , I drew the inference - perhaps rashly - that he was one of those for whom their better halves made cease- less but profitless inquiries of ...
... seemed particularly averse to going out of doors , from which circumstance , and other trifles , I drew the inference - perhaps rashly - that he was one of those for whom their better halves made cease- less but profitless inquiries of ...
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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.