The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... never broke : They parted , but from that time often is as pleasant and commodious as I could wish it. met In that same garden when the sun had set , And for a while Colonna's mind forgot , In the fair present hour , his future lot . pp ...
... never broke : They parted , but from that time often is as pleasant and commodious as I could wish it. met In that same garden when the sun had set , And for a while Colonna's mind forgot , In the fair present hour , his future lot . pp ...
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... never prominent , is never flat , and the eyes are so uniformly black , that any de- New Holland is excluded , being re- garded as a Continent . viation from that colour is regarded as a striking singularity . This race is found ...
... never prominent , is never flat , and the eyes are so uniformly black , that any de- New Holland is excluded , being re- garded as a Continent . viation from that colour is regarded as a striking singularity . This race is found ...
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... never rise above the height of five feet . juice is boiled in iron pots to the con- sistence of a syrup , and , when cool , becomes solid , and is cut into square cakes . It is used as a masticatory , and much of it is exported into ...
... never rise above the height of five feet . juice is boiled in iron pots to the con- sistence of a syrup , and , when cool , becomes solid , and is cut into square cakes . It is used as a masticatory , and much of it is exported into ...
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... never to appear out of the closet , and we were to be ashamed of nothing so much as of confessing ourselves to be Christians . ' To the objection on ac- count of her sex she answered , that , as she was a woman , so was she also ...
... never to appear out of the closet , and we were to be ashamed of nothing so much as of confessing ourselves to be Christians . ' To the objection on ac- count of her sex she answered , that , as she was a woman , so was she also ...
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... never yet enjoyed for per- fecting the Philosophy of the Mind . In In this union , however , it is not to be concealed that metaphysical opi- nions must , in the first instance , yield to phrenological observations . every case where ...
... never yet enjoyed for per- fecting the Philosophy of the Mind . In In this union , however , it is not to be concealed that metaphysical opi- nions must , in the first instance , yield to phrenological observations . every case where ...
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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.