Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 30W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 - Scotland |
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... pass the Bill , means must be taken to make it part of the law of the land , without giving their Lordships much trouble . " A new paper , " the Republican , " price one halfpenny , has already a circulation of 20,000 copies ; in every ...
... pass the Bill , means must be taken to make it part of the law of the land , without giving their Lordships much trouble . " A new paper , " the Republican , " price one halfpenny , has already a circulation of 20,000 copies ; in every ...
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... pass- ed a vote preventing payments from being issued from the bank for the public service ; and on the 23d , they actually adjourned the Mutiny Bill . But Mr Pitt and the Peers were not discouraged . By resolutely main- taining the ...
... pass- ed a vote preventing payments from being issued from the bank for the public service ; and on the 23d , they actually adjourned the Mutiny Bill . But Mr Pitt and the Peers were not discouraged . By resolutely main- taining the ...
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... pass . The Irish Reform Bill commences thus- " Whereas it is expedient to diminish the expenses of elections in Ireland , and to extend the elec tive franchise to many of his Ma jesty's subjects therein , who have no heretofore enjoyed ...
... pass . The Irish Reform Bill commences thus- " Whereas it is expedient to diminish the expenses of elections in Ireland , and to extend the elec tive franchise to many of his Ma jesty's subjects therein , who have no heretofore enjoyed ...
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... pass , it will be the first part of a three - act political dra- ma , of which the second act will be Repeal of the Union , " and the third , " Rebellion in Ireland . " 66 T. W. H. It is a common saying , that sorrows never come 58 ...
... pass , it will be the first part of a three - act political dra- ma , of which the second act will be Repeal of the Union , " and the third , " Rebellion in Ireland . " 66 T. W. H. It is a common saying , that sorrows never come 58 ...
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... pass How languidly the listless hours away ! While Memory comes , in slumber , with her glass , When hush'd to peace is all the strife of day , To pour upon my visions richly bright Joys that have been , and hopes that set in night ...
... pass How languidly the listless hours away ! While Memory comes , in slumber , with her glass , When hush'd to peace is all the strife of day , To pour upon my visions richly bright Joys that have been , and hopes that set in night ...
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Page 571 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 519 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 518 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 92 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 369 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 369 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 45 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 344 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 343 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Page 571 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.