Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122William Blackwood, 1877 - England |
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... peaceful and timid Egyp- tian fellahs dwelling in conve- nient proximity to these uncom- fortable neighbours , -who harry their own ... peace if possible between the respective residents of this 26 [ July The Egyptian Campaign in Abyssinia .
... peaceful and timid Egyp- tian fellahs dwelling in conve- nient proximity to these uncom- fortable neighbours , -who harry their own ... peace if possible between the respective residents of this 26 [ July The Egyptian Campaign in Abyssinia .
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enforce peace if possible between the respective residents of this border - land , believing a display of force would accomplish those objects without bloodshed . Ignorant of the country and of the character of the people with whom he ...
enforce peace if possible between the respective residents of this border - land , believing a display of force would accomplish those objects without bloodshed . Ignorant of the country and of the character of the people with whom he ...
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... peace , and no hostile movement has since taken place in Abyssinia . " All of our prisoners who had not been put to death ( as many were after the first battle by the Abyssinians , while others were sent back terribly and inhumanly muti ...
... peace , and no hostile movement has since taken place in Abyssinia . " All of our prisoners who had not been put to death ( as many were after the first battle by the Abyssinians , while others were sent back terribly and inhumanly muti ...
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... peace are , and must continue to be , alien to the character of both prince and people . While , therefore , Egypt really has no need of Abyssinia , the latter has great and pressing need of Egypt , or some other civilising agency , if ...
... peace are , and must continue to be , alien to the character of both prince and people . While , therefore , Egypt really has no need of Abyssinia , the latter has great and pressing need of Egypt , or some other civilising agency , if ...
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... peace . " Perhaps , " considers the good- natured creature , " my niece has had a disappointment . Perhaps we were , all things considered , some- what premature . Silence , my dear Jemima , silence is the best , if not the only cure ...
... peace . " Perhaps , " considers the good- natured creature , " my niece has had a disappointment . Perhaps we were , all things considered , some- what premature . Silence , my dear Jemima , silence is the best , if not the only cure ...
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Page 721 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 416 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 737 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Page 413 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 414 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Page 416 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 737 - Midas turned all things to gold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye; and by a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart.
Page 737 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night...