Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn: The Fraserian papers, with a life of Dr. Maginn, by the editorRedfield, 1857 |
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... occupation degrade . But in the morning of life the gay thoughtless- ness of his heart bore him , smiling , through many a day of sorrow , and gay and thoughtless he continued to the end of his MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MAGINN . xi.
... occupation degrade . But in the morning of life the gay thoughtless- ness of his heart bore him , smiling , through many a day of sorrow , and gay and thoughtless he continued to the end of his MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MAGINN . xi.
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William Maginn Robert Shelton Mackenzie. gay and thoughtless he continued to the end of his too brief existence . Never making provision for his name , ' he is now one of those mind- wrecks who have drifted from this bank and shoal of ...
William Maginn Robert Shelton Mackenzie. gay and thoughtless he continued to the end of his too brief existence . Never making provision for his name , ' he is now one of those mind- wrecks who have drifted from this bank and shoal of ...
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... continued in this capacity for several years , during which he applied himself , to the completion of his own education , not limiting his read- ing to the classics and the Continental living languages , but plunging deeply into English ...
... continued in this capacity for several years , during which he applied himself , to the completion of his own education , not limiting his read- ing to the classics and the Continental living languages , but plunging deeply into English ...
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... continued at the head of this seminary for ten years , when he retired , to push his fortune as a man of letters in London , and was succeeded by his brother John , who re- tained the sceptre ―i . e . , the ferule — until , having ...
... continued at the head of this seminary for ten years , when he retired , to push his fortune as a man of letters in London , and was succeeded by his brother John , who re- tained the sceptre ―i . e . , the ferule — until , having ...
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... continued an occasional con- tributor to the last year of his life , one of Maginn's hardest hits was a notice of some amusing blunders in Debrett's Peerage , a work of con- siderable pretension . Here is a specimen : — " Vol . II . p ...
... continued an occasional con- tributor to the last year of his life , one of Maginn's hardest hits was a notice of some amusing blunders in Debrett's Peerage , a work of con- siderable pretension . Here is a specimen : — " Vol . II . p ...
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Page 54 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 33 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 222 - There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Page 149 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 102 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then...
Page 153 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Page 4 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 223 - Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended, from the apparition that in the first Act chills the blood with horror, to the fop in the last, that exposes affectation to just contempt.
Page 146 - Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl.
Page 136 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.