Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... hope - I have none : I am not up to exertion ; I have got into lazy habits . To go into new scenes , form new plans , live in a horrid raw new world , everybody round me bustling and pushing- No ! that may suit your thin dapper light ...
... hope - I have none : I am not up to exertion ; I have got into lazy habits . To go into new scenes , form new plans , live in a horrid raw new world , everybody round me bustling and pushing- No ! that may suit your thin dapper light ...
Page 80
... hope of attaining any definite object , or any wish on his part seemingly for his friends to join in the rebellion . On the walls of the mosque we oc- cupied were two placards ; one pub- lished by a professor of divinity , who proposed ...
... hope of attaining any definite object , or any wish on his part seemingly for his friends to join in the rebellion . On the walls of the mosque we oc- cupied were two placards ; one pub- lished by a professor of divinity , who proposed ...
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... hope of Italian independence , naturally sym- pathises with a kindred race , eagerly seeking , in the far east of Europe , a portion of that liberty which she in the west has already won , and , we trust , for ever secured . Before ...
... hope of Italian independence , naturally sym- pathises with a kindred race , eagerly seeking , in the far east of Europe , a portion of that liberty which she in the west has already won , and , we trust , for ever secured . Before ...
Page 99
... hope . " The international Commission , " says the author of the " Letters , " cost the Principalities 3 millions of piastres ( about £ 45,000 sterling ) ; that is to say , the tenth part of their annual budget . The Roumans love to ...
... hope . " The international Commission , " says the author of the " Letters , " cost the Principalities 3 millions of piastres ( about £ 45,000 sterling ) ; that is to say , the tenth part of their annual budget . The Roumans love to ...
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... hope everything , even complete indepen- dence . ' " To decide between these two policies , the Principalities wait till Europe shall have marked out for them their line of conduct . " One day , perhaps , the advanced guard of the ...
... hope everything , even complete indepen- dence . ' " To decide between these two policies , the Principalities wait till Europe shall have marked out for them their line of conduct . " One day , perhaps , the advanced guard of the ...
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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.
Page 257 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
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.
Page 418 - Nor scream can any raise, nor prayer can any say, But wild, wild, the terror of the speechless three — For they feel fair Anna Grace drawn silently away, By whom they dare not look to see. They feel their tresses twine with her parting locks of gold, And the curls elastic falling, as her head withdraws ; They feel her sliding arms from their tranced arms unfold, But they...
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.