Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 43

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W. Blackwood & Sons, 1838 - Scotland
 

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Page 304 - Which from his darksome passage now appears; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
Page 197 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 381 - ... till they could all play very near or altogether as well as myself. This done, say the enemy were forty thousand strong, we twenty would come into the field the tenth of March, or thereabouts ; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy ; they could not in their honour refuse us. Well, we would kill them ; challenge twenty more, kill them ; twenty more, kill them ; twenty more, kill them too...
Page 563 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end...
Page 305 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness...
Page 308 - Ah ! gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish, and deliver ye to woe ; More woe, the more your taste is now of joy...
Page 575 - Ach, ich merk' es! Wehe! wehe! Hab' ich doch das Wort vergessen! Ach! das Wort, worauf am Ende Er das wird, was er gewesen. Ach, er läuft und bringt behende! Wärst du doch der alte Besen! Immer neue Güsse Bringt er schnell herein, Ach! und hundert Flüsse Stürzen auf mich ein. Nein, nicht länger Kann ich's lassen; Will ihn fassen. Das ist Tücke! Ach, nun wird mir immer bänger! Welche Miene, welche Blicke! O du Ausgeburt der Hölle! Soll das ganze Haus ersaufen? Seh' ich über jede Schwelle...
Page 447 - Nile, the conversion of the needle to the north; and have studied to match and parallel those in the more obvious and neglected pieces of nature, which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself.
Page 310 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 83 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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