Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen215William Blackwood, 1924 |
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... English- men upon the island on 28th January 1624. On that day , On that day , therefore , was founded the col- ony of St Christopher . The occasion has been generally antedated by a year , even in an official matter like the celebra ...
... English- men upon the island on 28th January 1624. On that day , On that day , therefore , was founded the col- ony of St Christopher . The occasion has been generally antedated by a year , even in an official matter like the celebra ...
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... English were still only a handful , and there was ever the menace of a return of the Caribs . They were a roving race , often on the move from island to island in great fleets of canoes , fight- ing one another , raiding the main of ...
... English were still only a handful , and there was ever the menace of a return of the Caribs . They were a roving race , often on the move from island to island in great fleets of canoes , fight- ing one another , raiding the main of ...
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... English planters , pouring its riches into the English commonwealth , employing hun- dreds of merchantmen and thou- sands of English mariners . It was a dream to be realised step by step ; and the next and easiest stage was the planting ...
... English planters , pouring its riches into the English commonwealth , employing hun- dreds of merchantmen and thou- sands of English mariners . It was a dream to be realised step by step ; and the next and easiest stage was the planting ...
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... English took the central portion of the main oval , a broad strip ex- tending from the windward to the leeward coast across the central mountain range . The French took the two ends of the oval , their property being thus divided into ...
... English took the central portion of the main oval , a broad strip ex- tending from the windward to the leeward coast across the central mountain range . The French took the two ends of the oval , their property being thus divided into ...
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... English emi- grants came out well supplied with equipment and foodstuffs to carry them over the period of establishment . Rapid ex- pansion was therefore possible without strain upon the re- sources of existing settlers , and there was ...
... English emi- grants came out well supplied with equipment and foodstuffs to carry them over the period of establishment . Rapid ex- pansion was therefore possible without strain upon the re- sources of existing settlers , and there was ...
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Página 503 - All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight...
Página 95 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 813 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian* springs, Had in him those brave translunary* things That the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire...
Página 512 - I still inhabit this divine bay, reading Spanish dramas, and sailing, and listening to the most enchanting music. We have some friends on a visit to us, and my only regret is that the summer must ever pass, or that Mary has not the same predilection for this place that I have, which would induce me never to shift my quarters.
Página 502 - This scene was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii, you know, was a Greek city). They lived in harmony with nature ; and the interstices of their incomparable columns were portals, as it were, to admit the spirit of beauty which animates this glorious universe to visit those whom it inspired.
Página 805 - But what was it, this liberalism, as Dr. Newman saw it, and as it really broke the Oxford movement? It was the great middleclass liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes; in the religious sphere the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Página 211 - With that, methought a legion of foul fiends Environed me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling waked, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell ; Such terrible impression made my dream.
Página 284 - The decrees of the demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant ; and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other. Both have great power — the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing. The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly.
Página 561 - Gone like a star that through the firmament Shot and was lost, in its eccentric course Dazzling, perplexing. Yet thy heart, methinks, Was generous, noble— noble in its scorn Of all things low or little ; nothing there Sordid or servile. If imagined wrongs Pursued thee, urging thee sometimes to do Things long regretted, oft, as many know, None more than I, thy gratitude would build On slight foundations : and, if in thy life Not happy, in thy death thou surely wert, Thy wish accomplished...
Página 503 - O, but for that series of wretched wars which terminated in the Roman conquest of the world ; but for the Christian religion, which put the finishing stroke on the ancient system ; but for those changes that conducted Athens to its ruin, — to what an eminence might not humanity have arrived ! In a short time I hope to tell you something of the museum of this city.