Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 140William Blackwood, 1886 - England |
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Page 45
... appear ; but when in Paris last year , he confessed that his ambi- tion would have been to see him- self a monk - a Dominican , for example . " A religious corpora- tion should have sustained my old carcass , then I should have been an ...
... appear ; but when in Paris last year , he confessed that his ambi- tion would have been to see him- self a monk - a Dominican , for example . " A religious corpora- tion should have sustained my old carcass , then I should have been an ...
Page 86
... appear they were all more or less fascinated , must be attributed mainly to the early principles in- stilled by their excellent parent while yet alive - for Mr Gurney's occupations , both public and pri- vate , took up so much of his ...
... appear they were all more or less fascinated , must be attributed mainly to the early principles in- stilled by their excellent parent while yet alive - for Mr Gurney's occupations , both public and pri- vate , took up so much of his ...
Page 94
... was not for some years , we read , that the household was regularly assembled for the purpose , except on Sunday evenings . Everything appears to have been excellent of its kind in the ménage of the young 94 [ July Elizabeth Fry .
... was not for some years , we read , that the household was regularly assembled for the purpose , except on Sunday evenings . Everything appears to have been excellent of its kind in the ménage of the young 94 [ July Elizabeth Fry .
Page 95
... appears to be spent to little more purpose than eating , drinking , sleeping , and clothing myself . " Then she has " every room in the house full , and the toothache ; " and again , large dinner - party , and fagged with toothache ...
... appears to be spent to little more purpose than eating , drinking , sleeping , and clothing myself . " Then she has " every room in the house full , and the toothache ; " and again , large dinner - party , and fagged with toothache ...
Page 101
... appear to have been much of a linguist as she preached and prayed . " This reading , " says her biographer , " produced quite a sensation in Paris ; for it had been said that the wonder ful effect of Mrs Fry's readings in Newgate was ...
... appear to have been much of a linguist as she preached and prayed . " This reading , " says her biographer , " produced quite a sensation in Paris ; for it had been said that the wonder ful effect of Mrs Fry's readings in Newgate was ...
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Page 699 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 612 - Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier ? Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! n.
Page 659 - But let us speak no more of this! I find My father; let me feel that I have found! Come, sit beside me on this sand, and take My head betwixt thy hands, and kiss my cheeks, And wash them with thy tears, and say: My son!
Page 671 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 47 - S'il me fallait les vendre, J'aimerais mieux me pendre; J'aime Jeanne ma femme, eh bien! j'aimerais mieux La voir mourir, que voir mourir mes bœufs.
Page 587 - ... are partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; 35 It is the rust we value, not the gold.
Page 429 - I should certainly wish for it; and, as a general lover of liberty, I sincerely desire it; and for this plain reason, that an inferior country, connected with one much her superior in force, can never be certain of the permanent enjoyment of constitutional freedom, unless she has,' by her representatives, a proportional share in the legislature of the superior kingdom.
Page 660 - Bokhara, and lone Khiva in the waste, And the black Toorkmun tents ; and only drunk The desert rivers, Moorghab and Tejend, Kohik, and where the Kalmuks feed their sheep, The northern Sir; and this great Oxus stream — The yellow Oxus, by whose brink I die.
Page 635 - Young husbandman of Erin's fruitful seed-time, In the fresh track of danger's plough ! Who will walk the heavy, toilsome, perilous furrow Girt with freedom's seed-sheets now ? Who will banish with the wholesome crop of knowledge The flaunting weed and the bitter thorn, Now that thou thyself art but a seed for hopeful planting Against the resurrection morn ? Young salmon of the...