Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen215William Blackwood, 1924 |
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... parties at the end of August '98 . I had come up from Tientsin on busi- ness , and was stopping at Chamot's Hotel . I remember that garden - party as distinctly as if it were yesterday . It was a broiling hot day , but in spite of the ...
... parties at the end of August '98 . I had come up from Tientsin on busi- ness , and was stopping at Chamot's Hotel . I remember that garden - party as distinctly as if it were yesterday . It was a broiling hot day , but in spite of the ...
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... party , that the Viceroy Yung Lu was preparing a plot to seize the Emperor's person on the occa- sion of this review , and thus to put a stop to the progressive edicts which were creating seri- ous alarm among the Manchu clansmen . The ...
... party , that the Viceroy Yung Lu was preparing a plot to seize the Emperor's person on the occa- sion of this review , and thus to put a stop to the progressive edicts which were creating seri- ous alarm among the Manchu clansmen . The ...
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... party , came off , they wanted me to and there , under pain of death , go at once to the Legation to make her sign a decree and do my utmost to enlist finally renouncing public life , the Minister's sympathy and and conferring full ...
... party , came off , they wanted me to and there , under pain of death , go at once to the Legation to make her sign a decree and do my utmost to enlist finally renouncing public life , the Minister's sympathy and and conferring full ...
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... party . They made their way unchal- lenged through a maze of court- yards , and having , as they thought , reached their goal , they quietly forced the door , found their quarry peacefully sleeping , and gagged and bound her as she lay ...
... party . They made their way unchal- lenged through a maze of court- yards , and having , as they thought , reached their goal , they quietly forced the door , found their quarry peacefully sleeping , and gagged and bound her as she lay ...
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... party . " All this Wang told me when he came to see me next morning , a picture of hopeless dejection . It was not for him- self , but for the Emperor and the cause , that he lamented his failure and feared its results . As regards the ...
... party . " All this Wang told me when he came to see me next morning , a picture of hopeless dejection . It was not for him- self , but for the Emperor and the cause , that he lamented his failure and feared its results . As regards the ...
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Página 503 - All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight...
Página 95 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 813 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian* springs, Had in him those brave translunary* things That the first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire...
Página 512 - I still inhabit this divine bay, reading Spanish dramas, and sailing, and listening to the most enchanting music. We have some friends on a visit to us, and my only regret is that the summer must ever pass, or that Mary has not the same predilection for this place that I have, which would induce me never to shift my quarters.
Página 502 - This scene was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii, you know, was a Greek city). They lived in harmony with nature ; and the interstices of their incomparable columns were portals, as it were, to admit the spirit of beauty which animates this glorious universe to visit those whom it inspired.
Página 805 - But what was it, this liberalism, as Dr. Newman saw it, and as it really broke the Oxford movement? It was the great middleclass liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes; in the religious sphere the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Página 211 - With that, methought a legion of foul fiends Environed me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling waked, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell ; Such terrible impression made my dream.
Página 284 - The decrees of the demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant ; and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other. Both have great power — the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing. The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly.
Página 561 - Gone like a star that through the firmament Shot and was lost, in its eccentric course Dazzling, perplexing. Yet thy heart, methinks, Was generous, noble— noble in its scorn Of all things low or little ; nothing there Sordid or servile. If imagined wrongs Pursued thee, urging thee sometimes to do Things long regretted, oft, as many know, None more than I, thy gratitude would build On slight foundations : and, if in thy life Not happy, in thy death thou surely wert, Thy wish accomplished...
Página 503 - O, but for that series of wretched wars which terminated in the Roman conquest of the world ; but for the Christian religion, which put the finishing stroke on the ancient system ; but for those changes that conducted Athens to its ruin, — to what an eminence might not humanity have arrived ! In a short time I hope to tell you something of the museum of this city.