Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen14William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1847 |
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... kind- ness of which we have had the good fortune to witness the example , which we have now at- tempted , though faintly , to describe , there are few who have it not in their power to bestow them , and therefore we may fairly be ...
... kind- ness of which we have had the good fortune to witness the example , which we have now at- tempted , though faintly , to describe , there are few who have it not in their power to bestow them , and therefore we may fairly be ...
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... kind of pantomime , quite as ridiculous , done darklings in a lawyer's back shop , may be accepted as an instalment of simplification in heritable investi- tures , although it was certainly making two bites of a cherry to retain this ...
... kind of pantomime , quite as ridiculous , done darklings in a lawyer's back shop , may be accepted as an instalment of simplification in heritable investi- tures , although it was certainly making two bites of a cherry to retain this ...
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... kind which the modern vassal neither needs nor claims may have rendered the ancient holder willing and anxious to compensate the superior with casualties at every renewed re - reader , there is an obscure approach to this , espe ...
... kind which the modern vassal neither needs nor claims may have rendered the ancient holder willing and anxious to compensate the superior with casualties at every renewed re - reader , there is an obscure approach to this , espe ...
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... kind , re- ceived constantly from their country connexions , fur- nished their table with abundant plenty , and entitled such contributors to a place at it without ceremony or reserve . The annual slaughter of two brawns marked the ...
... kind , re- ceived constantly from their country connexions , fur- nished their table with abundant plenty , and entitled such contributors to a place at it without ceremony or reserve . The annual slaughter of two brawns marked the ...
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... kind and friendly dealing with the distressed and dis- tracted sister - country . We now return to the question of the great re- medial measures for Ireland ; - Poor Laws , and reclamation of waste lands , we have before commented on ...
... kind and friendly dealing with the distressed and dis- tracted sister - country . We now return to the question of the great re- medial measures for Ireland ; - Poor Laws , and reclamation of waste lands , we have before commented on ...
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Página 301 - Fitz-Eustace' heart felt closely pent ; As if to give his rapture vent, The spur he to his charger lent, And raised his bridle hand, And, making demi-volte in air, Cried, " Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land !" The Lindesay smiled his joy to see; Nor Marmion's frown repress'd his glee.
Página 28 - Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures...
Página 184 - Life, thou saidst, is short; and the sleep which is in the grave is long; let me use that life, so transitory, for the glory of those heavenly dreams destined to comfort the sleep which is so long!
Página 188 - These had their sweet bells that pierced the forests for many a league at matins or vespers, and each its own dreamy legend. Few enough, and scattered enough, were these abbeys, so as in no degree to disturb the deep solitude of the region; yet many enough to spread a network or awning of Christian sanctity over what else might have seemed a heathen wilderness.
Página 300 - When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back...
Página 122 - ... and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns, like those which decked the brows of Moses when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God ; and still while a man tells the story, the sun gets up higher, till he...
Página 301 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Página 14 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 9 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it...
Página 231 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.