The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1865 |
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... believe it , the Naiad , by some potent necromancy held over her even in her own watery world , slowly changeth into - Christopher North , editor of Blackwood's Magazine , and other celebrated works ! Fain would we now , fancy - led ...
... believe it , the Naiad , by some potent necromancy held over her even in her own watery world , slowly changeth into - Christopher North , editor of Blackwood's Magazine , and other celebrated works ! Fain would we now , fancy - led ...
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... believe that we look much more dangerous — and indeed not only look , but are so than your full - cheeked , thick - calved , bolt - upright , broad - shouldered bachelors of about forty . Were we young girls , we should become loath ...
... believe that we look much more dangerous — and indeed not only look , but are so than your full - cheeked , thick - calved , bolt - upright , broad - shouldered bachelors of about forty . Were we young girls , we should become loath ...
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... believe what I tell you on their own authority , they left Erickstane - brae without a sigh ! On the day of the Flitting , instead of weeping farewell to the stocks , and stones , and trees , and the somewhat " " coarse - fleeced sheep ...
... believe what I tell you on their own authority , they left Erickstane - brae without a sigh ! On the day of the Flitting , instead of weeping farewell to the stocks , and stones , and trees , and the somewhat " " coarse - fleeced sheep ...
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... believe this view of human nature to be just . Young persons of both sexes , of the most humble talents , provided they have ten fingers ( five on each hand ) , may certainly be made fair carvers , —and we have ourselves known not a few ...
... believe this view of human nature to be just . Young persons of both sexes , of the most humble talents , provided they have ten fingers ( five on each hand ) , may certainly be made fair carvers , —and we have ourselves known not a few ...
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... believe that at particular parts he asked for a tallow candle . With- out , however , reasoning the question too high , many is the honest man who , while he has been supposing himself enact- ing the character of the Plain - Eater , has ...
... believe that at particular parts he asked for a tallow candle . With- out , however , reasoning the question too high , many is the honest man who , while he has been supposing himself enact- ing the character of the Plain - Eater , has ...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays ... John Wilson Vista completa - 1856 |
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Página 203 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 11 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Página 79 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 396 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Página 270 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 132 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest;" for I felt that there could be no rest for me in the midst of such outrages and pollutions.
Página 397 - Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Página 243 - Thelwall, and ye that lecture as ye go, "And for your pains get pelted, praise Lepaux. " Praise him each Jacobin, or fool, or knave, " And your cropped heads in sign of worship wave. "All creeping creatures, venomous and low...