Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... sure . Since , also , our wealth - born fastidiousness will not tolerate the disagreeables of war and soldier life to appear among us , surely we ought to pay the cost of that fastidiousness out of that wealth which generates it . Our ...
... sure . Since , also , our wealth - born fastidiousness will not tolerate the disagreeables of war and soldier life to appear among us , surely we ought to pay the cost of that fastidiousness out of that wealth which generates it . Our ...
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... sure , from Colonel Morley's decided manner , that you can get nothing from Darrell if you choose to remain in England . " " Well , when I have nothing else left , I may go to Darrell myself , and have that matter out with him . At ...
... sure , from Colonel Morley's decided manner , that you can get nothing from Darrell if you choose to remain in England . " " Well , when I have nothing else left , I may go to Darrell myself , and have that matter out with him . At ...
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... sure of the hand , and , when the sub- ject was changed , a clearer brow and livelier smile , thanked the English Alban better than all words , " Well met , " said Darrell , the day after Alban had conveyed to him the comforting ...
... sure of the hand , and , when the sub- ject was changed , a clearer brow and livelier smile , thanked the English Alban better than all words , " Well met , " said Darrell , the day after Alban had conveyed to him the comforting ...
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... sure I forget which , but it was one or the other , nonsensical , and not English ) in his views of man and nature . Very possibly . All I know is - I bought the poems , but could not read them ; the critics read them , but did not buy ...
... sure I forget which , but it was one or the other , nonsensical , and not English ) in his views of man and nature . Very possibly . All I know is - I bought the poems , but could not read them ; the critics read them , but did not buy ...
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... sure to be in danger . " Yet it was not only in the field that Hod- son was to be valued his head was as active as his hand was strong ; and I feel sure , when we who knew him heard of his death , not one but felt that there was indeed ...
... sure to be in danger . " Yet it was not only in the field that Hod- son was to be valued his head was as active as his hand was strong ; and I feel sure , when we who knew him heard of his death , not one but felt that there was indeed ...
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Page 410 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 465 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
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Page 415 - My blessin' and my pride; There's nothing left to care for now, Since my poor Mary died. Yours was the good, brave heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on, When the trust in God had left my soul, And my arm's young strength was gone; There was comfort ever on your lip, And the kind look on your brow, — 1 bless you, Mary, for that same, Though you cannot hear me now.
Page 102 - And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Page 523 - O, thou child of many prayers ! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares ! Care and age come unawares ! Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June.
Page 193 - Onward they came in their joy, and around them the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam panting and heaving ; and rainbows Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers, lighting Far through the wine-dark depths of the crystal, the gardens Coral and sea-fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of, the ocean.
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Page 417 - Are hushed the maidens' voices, as cowering down they lie In the flutter of their sudden awe. For, from the air above, and the grassy ground beneath, And from the mountain-ashes and the old whitethorn between, A power of faint enchantment doth through their beings breathe, And they sink down together on the green.