The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen89Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... give me your opinion of its merits . Uncle Gabriel departed this life on the 13th ult . , and left me , by way of legacy , a species of property , whose intrinsic worth , I freely confess , is far enough beyond the range of my ...
... give me your opinion of its merits . Uncle Gabriel departed this life on the 13th ult . , and left me , by way of legacy , a species of property , whose intrinsic worth , I freely confess , is far enough beyond the range of my ...
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... give us the curse ? It would have been a model of imitation for all fu- ture cursers and swearers . The his- tory of this castigated hero must be read in the original . It deploreth , in poetic grief , the miseries of the youth who had ...
... give us the curse ? It would have been a model of imitation for all fu- ture cursers and swearers . The his- tory of this castigated hero must be read in the original . It deploreth , in poetic grief , the miseries of the youth who had ...
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... give him all that I possess ; And I'll fight for him too , should he need it ; Can any true swobject do less ? " " Now give me theyne hand , honest Joey ! That's spoke leyke a true English man ! He needs but a plain honest story , And ...
... give him all that I possess ; And I'll fight for him too , should he need it ; Can any true swobject do less ? " " Now give me theyne hand , honest Joey ! That's spoke leyke a true English man ! He needs but a plain honest story , And ...
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... give their opinions . Mr Thomson was very well qualified to give the mind of the commer . cial classes , and Sir John Maxwell and Mr Alexander could give the opinions of the landed interest ; and committees of the two classes should be ...
... give their opinions . Mr Thomson was very well qualified to give the mind of the commer . cial classes , and Sir John Maxwell and Mr Alexander could give the opinions of the landed interest ; and committees of the two classes should be ...
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... gives the least possible protection to agriculture , at the greatest possible sacrifice to com- mercial prosperity ... give a great nominal value to raw produce , and , in so far as it is consumable , it may bring a large price ; but ...
... gives the least possible protection to agriculture , at the greatest possible sacrifice to com- mercial prosperity ... give a great nominal value to raw produce , and , in so far as it is consumable , it may bring a large price ; but ...
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Página 28 - I have of late,— but wherefore I know not,— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 105 - Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile, Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others
Página 40 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 113 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities?
Página 387 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown ; From the burthen of the flesh, And from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest.
Página 26 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Página 102 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Página 104 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Página 69 - ... large territory has generally an abundance, but the inferior machinery which may be said to be employed when good land is further and further forced for additional produce. As the price of raw produce...
Página 569 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...