Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 22William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1855 - Periodicals |
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... never troubled to divide upon a question commended to it from the Throne and confessedly demanding settle- ment . The Reform Bill perished without a hostile vote - just as war had been declared as the alternative of resignation . We ...
... never troubled to divide upon a question commended to it from the Throne and confessedly demanding settle- ment . The Reform Bill perished without a hostile vote - just as war had been declared as the alternative of resignation . We ...
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... never attracted a tithe of the sympathy and attention enjoyed by the repre- understood to be battling less for liberty than sentatives of Poland and Hungary , who were for fatherland . Kossuth owed the splendour of his reception to his ...
... never attracted a tithe of the sympathy and attention enjoyed by the repre- understood to be battling less for liberty than sentatives of Poland and Hungary , who were for fatherland . Kossuth owed the splendour of his reception to his ...
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... never been surpassed , he indignation , awakened by ostentatious abuses ; yielded to none of its seductions . Royal smiles , his fervent prayers , inspired by dread of pre- and the blaze of aristocratic beauty never put vailing impiety ...
... never been surpassed , he indignation , awakened by ostentatious abuses ; yielded to none of its seductions . Royal smiles , his fervent prayers , inspired by dread of pre- and the blaze of aristocratic beauty never put vailing impiety ...
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... never calmer - never more patient man gets no permanent fame unless he be more in his investigations - never more thoroughly or less unusually good or great . Now , without transparent , serious , or manly than when he doubt , Edward ...
... never calmer - never more patient man gets no permanent fame unless he be more in his investigations - never more thoroughly or less unusually good or great . Now , without transparent , serious , or manly than when he doubt , Edward ...
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... never be an artist ! Teach me something else , Willy dear ! " Forsaking artistry , we took to long , rambling walks about London ; walks which my patient's saddened remoteness of mood frequently con- verted into " sentimental journeys " ...
... never be an artist ! Teach me something else , Willy dear ! " Forsaking artistry , we took to long , rambling walks about London ; walks which my patient's saddened remoteness of mood frequently con- verted into " sentimental journeys " ...
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Page 38 - Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
Page 288 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Page 36 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 103 - On open wold and hill-top bleak It had gathered all the cold, And whirled it like sleet on the wanderer's cheek ; It carried -a shiver everywhere From the unleafed boughs and pastures bare ; The little brook heard it and built a roof 'Neath which he could house him, winter-proof ; All night by the white stars...
Page 103 - Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew ; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques...
Page 332 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Page 61 - And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but 'tis not true!
Page 61 - But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life ; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course ; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us — to know Whence our lives come and where they go.
Page 61 - And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes.
Page 37 - By another impulse, she took off the formal cap that confined her hair ; and down it fell upon her shoulders, dark and rich, with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance, and imparting the charm of softness to her features. There played around her mouth, and beamed out of her eyes, a radiant and tender smile, that seemed gushing from the very heart of womanhood.