The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... thought that these letters , unaffectedly displaying the domestic happiness that reigned at Windsor Castle , and recording many traits which do honour to the head and the heart of the Sovereign , and of his Consort , would not prove ...
... thought that these letters , unaffectedly displaying the domestic happiness that reigned at Windsor Castle , and recording many traits which do honour to the head and the heart of the Sovereign , and of his Consort , would not prove ...
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... thought and in- tellectual perspicacity . The author is evidently , though we had no other evidence but the volume on our table , a man of originality and of extensive and various literary acquirements , while , at the same time , it is ...
... thought and in- tellectual perspicacity . The author is evidently , though we had no other evidence but the volume on our table , a man of originality and of extensive and various literary acquirements , while , at the same time , it is ...
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... thought proper to indulge . The Indian Archipelago contains three islands of the first rank in point of size , namely , Borneo , New Guinea , and Sumatra of the second rank , Java , and the Malayan Peninsula ; of the third rank ...
... thought proper to indulge . The Indian Archipelago contains three islands of the first rank in point of size , namely , Borneo , New Guinea , and Sumatra of the second rank , Java , and the Malayan Peninsula ; of the third rank ...
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... thought some other person her husband had not considered what a people they were ; not a man among them could read a sermon without spelling a good part of it , and how would that edify the rest ? And none of her own family had voices ...
... thought some other person her husband had not considered what a people they were ; not a man among them could read a sermon without spelling a good part of it , and how would that edify the rest ? And none of her own family had voices ...
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... thoughts of my youth which then possessed me : sweet thoughts , in- deed , that promised my growing years nu- merous pleasures , without mixtures of cares ; and those to be enjoyed when time ( which I therefore thought slow - paced ) ...
... thoughts of my youth which then possessed me : sweet thoughts , in- deed , that promised my growing years nu- merous pleasures , without mixtures of cares ; and those to be enjoyed when time ( which I therefore thought slow - paced ) ...
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Page 309 - Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme...
Page 309 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Page 536 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert ; go not forth : behold, He is in the secret chambers ; believe it not.
Page 308 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 309 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Page 309 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night...
Page 309 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 308 - Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Page 308 - Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
Page 308 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.