The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11J. Moir, printer, 1817 |
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... accomplished . The elevated part , which was occupied as a burying ground , presented the greatest difficulty ; for here the rock is from fifteen Micíliai 13th Sept. 1817 , ] Hopkins Letters from Edinburgh. Plan of Road-way. ...
... accomplished . The elevated part , which was occupied as a burying ground , presented the greatest difficulty ; for here the rock is from fifteen Micíliai 13th Sept. 1817 , ] Hopkins Letters from Edinburgh. Plan of Road-way. ...
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... ground ; but the legislature , as might be expected , did not yield to the natural suggestions of private feelings . In traversing a spot in which the ashes of the dead repose , nothing serves to make a deeper impression on the mind of ...
... ground ; but the legislature , as might be expected , did not yield to the natural suggestions of private feelings . In traversing a spot in which the ashes of the dead repose , nothing serves to make a deeper impression on the mind of ...
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... ground of the precedent of Lord Macartney : but every demonstration of respect , consistent with the dignity of his sovereign , and the honour of his nation , was freely offered by his Excellency . This degrading ceremony of kneeling ...
... ground of the precedent of Lord Macartney : but every demonstration of respect , consistent with the dignity of his sovereign , and the honour of his nation , was freely offered by his Excellency . This degrading ceremony of kneeling ...
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... ground more efficaciously than their whole so- ciety . The appearance of these cenobites was squalid and repulsive - their bones literally were piercing through their skin , and their intellectual faculties , from unremitting ...
... ground more efficaciously than their whole so- ciety . The appearance of these cenobites was squalid and repulsive - their bones literally were piercing through their skin , and their intellectual faculties , from unremitting ...
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... grounds on which the ancients are supposed to have excelled in the art will be pointed out , and such positive proofs of their inferiority be adduced , as will leave no further room for erroneous misconception on the sub- ject . Miss ...
... grounds on which the ancients are supposed to have excelled in the art will be pointed out , and such positive proofs of their inferiority be adduced , as will leave no further room for erroneous misconception on the sub- ject . Miss ...
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Page 190 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Page 166 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 121 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 166 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 190 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Futhermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Page 121 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 196 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 57 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 144 - ... attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas, as he went to court, or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their civilities, when he left them at the door, to go in to the king ; and would let them know exactly at what hour he intended to come out again, and return to his lodgings.
Page 263 - Mr. Osbaldistone, save me ! — save me ! " I was so much moved by this horrid spectacle, that, although in momentary expectation of sharing his fate, I did attempt to speak in his behalf, but, as might have been expected, my interference was sternly disregarded. The victim was held fast by some, while others, binding a large heavy stone in a plaid, tied it round his neck, and otherg again eagerly stripped him of some part of his dress.