The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... Naples . - The example of Spain , in throwing off the yoke of a superannuated tyranny , has been faith- fully and successfully copied by the people of Naples . The fate of these two govern- ments , which presented each the extreme of ...
... Naples . - The example of Spain , in throwing off the yoke of a superannuated tyranny , has been faith- fully and successfully copied by the people of Naples . The fate of these two govern- ments , which presented each the extreme of ...
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... Naples and Italy . The prime mover is stated to be Louis Merichino , a priest of Nola , a distinguished literary cha- racter , and a man of genius and resolution . On the 13th July , the oath to the new constitution was taken by the ...
... Naples and Italy . The prime mover is stated to be Louis Merichino , a priest of Nola , a distinguished literary cha- racter , and a man of genius and resolution . On the 13th July , the oath to the new constitution was taken by the ...
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... Naples ; also a Captain of the Legion of La Meurthe , who has absconded . Some of these officers were arrested at ... Naples : - " The first impulse of the people of Sicily , on hearing , on the 14th of July , the news of the revolution ...
... Naples ; also a Captain of the Legion of La Meurthe , who has absconded . Some of these officers were arrested at ... Naples : - " The first impulse of the people of Sicily , on hearing , on the 14th of July , the news of the revolution ...
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... Naples . The latest accounts from this country state that the Archbishop of Palermo , who had provisionally taken the reins of Go- vernment , had succeeded in re - establishing order and tranquillity in that city ; but in other parts of ...
... Naples . The latest accounts from this country state that the Archbishop of Palermo , who had provisionally taken the reins of Go- vernment , had succeeded in re - establishing order and tranquillity in that city ; but in other parts of ...
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... Naples , where she arrived on the 8th Nov. 1814 . Their Lordships would perceive , from the dates which he had stated , that up to the period of her arrival at Naples , this person had not been in her service more than three weeks , and ...
... Naples , where she arrived on the 8th Nov. 1814 . Their Lordships would perceive , from the dates which he had stated , that up to the period of her arrival at Naples , this person had not been in her service more than three weeks , and ...
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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.