Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11

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William Blackwood, 1822
 

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Page 491 - encyclopaedia of Gardening ; comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening ; including all the Latest Improvements, a General History of Gardening in all Countries, and a Statistical View of its Present State, with Suggestions for its Future Progress, in the British Isles. By JC London,
Page 105 - we fear though the earth be removed ; though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; " Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled ; " Athanasia took her hands from her face, and gradually composing herself, looked through her tears upon the old man as he proceeded.
Page 586 - The mustering squadron, and the clattering car Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, " And there was mounting in hot haste; the steed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder, peal on peal afar, While
Page 105 - his voice ; the earth melted. " The Lord of Hosts is with us ; " The God of Jacob is our refuge." " The blood had mounted high in the countenance of Aurelius, and his voice had become strong and full, ere he reached these last words of triumphant confidence. The tears also had been all dried up on the
Page 105 - The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High ; " God is in the midst of her. " She shall not be moved ; " God shall help her, and that right
Page 586 - While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips—' The foe ! they come ! they come !' And near, the beat of the alarming drum Housed up the soldier ere the morning star ; The war-note of
Page 344 - one might as well use question with the wolf." I would venture, however, for all his growling ; for I know very well " he would not be a wolf, but that he sees the Romans be but
Page 238 - This isle and house are mine, and I have vow'd Thee to be lady of the solitude ; And I have fitted up some chambers there, Looking towards the golden eastern air, And level with the living winds." of Cain, we humbly think, ought to have been protected. In
Page 376 - from that very poem, from the mouth of Satan : and is there any thing more in that of Lucifer in the Mystery ? Cain is nothing more than a drama, not a piece of argument. If Lucifer and Cain speak as the first murderer and the first rebel may be supposed to speak, surely all the rest of the
Page 586 - The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard too have her Saxon foes. How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! but with the breath which fills *, Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring, which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears !

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