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... Lights , Fragments in Prose and Verse . By a young Lady , lately deceased , Historical Account of the Campaign of Buonaparte in Italy , The Wedding among the Flowers , An Essay on light Reading . SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES . Origin of ...
... Lights , Fragments in Prose and Verse . By a young Lady , lately deceased , Historical Account of the Campaign of Buonaparte in Italy , The Wedding among the Flowers , An Essay on light Reading . SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES . Origin of ...
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... light . It is true the worthy knight eats no meat himself , since he eat up the heifer ; but is that a reason why he should be unmindful of those that do ? But as humanity is the brightest jewel in a lady's tiara , it grieves me to be ...
... light . It is true the worthy knight eats no meat himself , since he eat up the heifer ; but is that a reason why he should be unmindful of those that do ? But as humanity is the brightest jewel in a lady's tiara , it grieves me to be ...
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... lights , wi ' hissing eerie din ; Athort the lift they start and shift , Like fortune's favours , tint as win By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes , And by the moon - beam , shook , to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise , Attired as ...
... lights , wi ' hissing eerie din ; Athort the lift they start and shift , Like fortune's favours , tint as win By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes , And by the moon - beam , shook , to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise , Attired as ...
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... lights and the benefits of these gene- rous and humanizing pursuits , are by no means confined to those whom leisure and affluence have courted to their enjoyment . That much of this is peculiar to Scotland , and may be properly ...
... lights and the benefits of these gene- rous and humanizing pursuits , are by no means confined to those whom leisure and affluence have courted to their enjoyment . That much of this is peculiar to Scotland , and may be properly ...
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... light ..... The whistling of the wind , the tumultuous roar of the waters , menacing thunder rolling unceasingly at a distance , and the profound darkness , rendered more striking by the rapid flashes of lightning , all appeared to the ...
... light ..... The whistling of the wind , the tumultuous roar of the waters , menacing thunder rolling unceasingly at a distance , and the profound darkness , rendered more striking by the rapid flashes of lightning , all appeared to the ...
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Page 2 - I' the presence He would say untruths; .and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning : He was never, But where he meant to ruin, pitiful...
Page 197 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
Page 16 - There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best season for devotion: my mind is wrapt up in a kind of enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, ' walks on the wings of the wind.
Page 235 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 96 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 172 - ... asleep upon my knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him, (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick,) and by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature could be more grateful than my patient after his recovery; a...
Page 14 - The last of the symptoms of rusticity which we think it necessary to notice in the works of this extraordinary man, is that frequent mistake of mere exaggeration and violence, for force and sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is, that his forte was in humour and in pathos — or rather in tenderness of feeling; and that he has very seldom succeeded, either where mere wit and sprightliness,...
Page 17 - ... and disquietudes of this weary life ; for I assure you I am heartily tired of it ; and, if I do not very much deceive myself, I could contentedly and gladly resign it. The soul, uneasy, and confined at home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 16 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 13 - It requires no habit of deep thinking, nor any thing more, indeed, than the information of an honest heart, to perceive that it is cruel and base to spend, in vain superfluities, that money which belongs of right to the pale industrious tradesman and his famishing infants ; or that it is a vile prostitution of language, to talk of that man's generosity or goodness of heart, who sits raving about friendship and philanthropy in a tavern, while his wife's heart is breaking at her cheerless fireside,...