Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 72William Blackwood, 1852 - England |
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Page 58
... Nora rose once more before him . He felt that he was with a mother . He went back , and closed the door gently , as if with a jealous piety , to exclude each ruder shadow from the world of spirits , and be alone with that mournful ghost ...
... Nora rose once more before him . He felt that he was with a mother . He went back , and closed the door gently , as if with a jealous piety , to exclude each ruder shadow from the world of spirits , and be alone with that mournful ghost ...
Page 60
... Nora to some one of rank less disproportioned to her own , and empowered that lady to assure any such wooer of a dowry far beyond Nora's station . Lady Jane looked around , and saw in the out- skirts of her limited social ring , a young ...
... Nora to some one of rank less disproportioned to her own , and empowered that lady to assure any such wooer of a dowry far beyond Nora's station . Lady Jane looked around , and saw in the out- skirts of her limited social ring , a young ...
Page 61
... Nora's new residence . presented himself at Lady Jane's , and she , with grave rebuke , forbade him the house . He found it impossible to obtain an interview with Nora . He wrote , but he felt sure that his letters never reached her ...
... Nora's new residence . presented himself at Lady Jane's , and she , with grave rebuke , forbade him the house . He found it impossible to obtain an interview with Nora . He wrote , but he felt sure that his letters never reached her ...
Page 62
... Nora's . While waiting for her entrance , he turned mechanically over the leaves of an album which Nora , suddenly sum- moned away to attend Lady Jane , had left behind her on the table . He saw the sketch of his own features ; he read ...
... Nora's . While waiting for her entrance , he turned mechanically over the leaves of an album which Nora , suddenly sum- moned away to attend Lady Jane , had left behind her on the table . He saw the sketch of his own features ; he read ...
Page 63
... Nora . He felt that , to own the ex- tent of his treason to a friend , would lower him in her eyes . He spoke therefore but slightingly of Harley- treated the boy's suit as a thing past and gone . He dwelt only on reasons that compelled ...
... Nora . He felt that , to own the ex- tent of his treason to a friend , would lower him in her eyes . He spoke therefore but slightingly of Harley- treated the boy's suit as a thing past and gone . He dwelt only on reasons that compelled ...
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Page 382 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 134 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 382 - Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.
Page 154 - There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Page 382 - He with his thunder : and till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? yet not for those, Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change...
Page 387 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires ; Till, as a signal given the...
Page 391 - But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to ? Who aspires, must down as low As high he soar'd ; obnoxious, first or last, To basest things.
Page 374 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 382 - O Prince, O Chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and, in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered heaven's perpetual King, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength or chance or fate ! Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat...
Page 462 - The case of Mr Wordsworth, we perceive, is now manifestly hopeless, and we give him up as altogether incurable, and beyond the power of criticism. We cannot, indeed, altogether omit taking precautions now and then against the spreading of the malady ; but for himself, though we shall watch the progress of his symptoms as a matter of professional curiosity and instruction, we really think it right not to harass him...