Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81W. Blackwood., 1857 |
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... interest or comprehension of your hearers may stop short precisely at the point where your spiritual interpretation begins . And Mr Barton this morn- ing succeeded in carrying the pauper imagination to the dough - tub , but ...
... interest or comprehension of your hearers may stop short precisely at the point where your spiritual interpretation begins . And Mr Barton this morn- ing succeeded in carrying the pauper imagination to the dough - tub , but ...
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... interest which we otherwise might have felt in so intellectual a heroine . In fact , she is made to resemble too closely some of the female portraits of George Sand , which never were to our liking . In Romney we fail to take any kind ...
... interest which we otherwise might have felt in so intellectual a heroine . In fact , she is made to resemble too closely some of the female portraits of George Sand , which never were to our liking . In Romney we fail to take any kind ...
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... interest of their plots , far more than by the felicity of their diction ; and until that truth is again recognised and acted on , we need not expect a resuscitation of the drama . Also be it remembered , that a plot - that is , a theme ...
... interest of their plots , far more than by the felicity of their diction ; and until that truth is again recognised and acted on , we need not expect a resuscitation of the drama . Also be it remembered , that a plot - that is , a theme ...
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... interest of Miss Anastasia , who very likely would be kind to the young people , sent Marian up - stairs upon a hastily- invented errand , and took the old lady aside to tell her what had hap- pened . Miss Rivers was a good deal ...
... interest of Miss Anastasia , who very likely would be kind to the young people , sent Marian up - stairs upon a hastily- invented errand , and took the old lady aside to tell her what had hap- pened . Miss Rivers was a good deal ...
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... interest and some intricacy here presents itself : Was the beetle paralysed by some peculiar poison secreted from the ten- tacles of the anemone ? -a question which opens into this wider one Have the polypes the mysterious power ...
... interest and some intricacy here presents itself : Was the beetle paralysed by some peculiar poison secreted from the ten- tacles of the anemone ? -a question which opens into this wider one Have the polypes the mysterious power ...
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Page 253 - And he rode upon a cherub and did fly: Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 260 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 254 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 257 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 249 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 250 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 257 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a Master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 253 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Page 257 - ... teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 288 - My manors, halls, and bowers shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he lists, howe'er Unmeet to be the owner's peer. My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation stone; The hand of Douglas is his own; And never shall, in friendly grasp, The hand of such as Marmion clasp.