The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, Band 1William Blackwood, 1817 |
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... remarkable feature of differ- ence between the ancient and modern dra- mas was the Chorus , a company of persons who might naturally be supposed present on the occasion , and interested in the events which were going on . The number of ...
... remarkable feature of differ- ence between the ancient and modern dra- mas was the Chorus , a company of persons who might naturally be supposed present on the occasion , and interested in the events which were going on . The number of ...
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... remarkable fact appears to have been regarded . Men of letters , while eagerly investigating the customs of Otaheite or Kamschatka , and losing their tempers in endless disputes about Gothic and Celtic antiquities , have witnessed with ...
... remarkable fact appears to have been regarded . Men of letters , while eagerly investigating the customs of Otaheite or Kamschatka , and losing their tempers in endless disputes about Gothic and Celtic antiquities , have witnessed with ...
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... remarkable evidence of the force of her gypsey habits and propensities . This woman having been guilty of re- peated acts of theft , was condemned by Mr W. Scott , sheriff of that coun- ty , to imprisonment in the bridewell there , on ...
... remarkable evidence of the force of her gypsey habits and propensities . This woman having been guilty of re- peated acts of theft , was condemned by Mr W. Scott , sheriff of that coun- ty , to imprisonment in the bridewell there , on ...
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... remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , render- ed it impossible to mistake her for a moment ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no ...
... remarkable figure , for she was nearly six feet high , and her equally remarkable features and dress , render- ed it impossible to mistake her for a moment ; and to meet with such a character in so solitary a place , and probably at no ...
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... remarkable personage of a very commanding pre- sence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose , -penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a ...
... remarkable personage of a very commanding pre- sence , and high stature , being nearly six feet high . She had a large aquiline nose , -penetrating eyes , even in her old age - bushy hair that hung around her shoulders from beneath a ...
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Seite 285 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Seite 345 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found. And the world's victor stood subdued by sound!
Seite 295 - Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old,— The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 271 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 393 - That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Seite 284 - PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate : And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place !
Seite 292 - And you, ye Crags, upon whose extreme edge I stand, and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap, A stir, a motion, even a breath, would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for ever...
Seite 278 - With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Seite 278 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 278 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.