The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Volume 4Ballantyne, 1830 - Great Britain Vol. 2 includes "The poet Shelley--his unpublished work, T̀he wandering Jew'" (p. 43-45, [57]-60) |
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Then hiding their diminished heads , far away and for ever ! look to our Original Poetry , the Ettrick Shepherd and Amen ! the author of “ Anster Fair " side by side , * two of the strongest pillars of our national school ; and Gertrude ...
Then hiding their diminished heads , far away and for ever ! look to our Original Poetry , the Ettrick Shepherd and Amen ! the author of “ Anster Fair " side by side , * two of the strongest pillars of our national school ; and Gertrude ...
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Young Mary is pure as the dew on the bud , And gracefu ' and fair as the bow in the clud ; And sportive and guileless as lamb on the leaAnd dear as my life is the ...
Young Mary is pure as the dew on the bud , And gracefu ' and fair as the bow in the clud ; And sportive and guileless as lamb on the leaAnd dear as my life is the ...
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... bend forward was most exactly copied by the nose To his fair countenance . protruding beneath its shadow , and almost touching a chin which ever and anon came to meet it over the sunken And I beheld myself , but not mouth between .
... bend forward was most exactly copied by the nose To his fair countenance . protruding beneath its shadow , and almost touching a chin which ever and anon came to meet it over the sunken And I beheld myself , but not mouth between .
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those who may visit our village the delay of question and By Alexander Maclaggan . answer , when they might be actually admiring the scenes Fair lady ! there are soothing sounds can cheer themselves , permit me to burden your all ...
those who may visit our village the delay of question and By Alexander Maclaggan . answer , when they might be actually admiring the scenes Fair lady ! there are soothing sounds can cheer themselves , permit me to burden your all ...
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Then away with a fair wind to Dunstaffpage ; and there I leave him to read this sonnet which it inspired : ' Twas a night fu ' o'gloom , ' Twas dark and ' twas late , But he promised to come , And I promised to wait ; I dress'd at the ...
Then away with a fair wind to Dunstaffpage ; and there I leave him to read this sonnet which it inspired : ' Twas a night fu ' o'gloom , ' Twas dark and ' twas late , But he promised to come , And I promised to wait ; I dress'd at the ...
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Page 284 - Dark was her hair, her hand was white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender ! Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 304 - ... of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite.
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Page 304 - BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night?
Page 69 - Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate : in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the crescent ; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the cross ; the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the Republic; and, with a parricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and the tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism.
Page 284 - There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that...
Page 69 - Even apparent defeat assumed the appearance of victory — his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils ; and it was the same to decide and to perform.