The City of London Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 2, Issue 9Smith, Elder and Company, 1843 - English literature |
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... ( Observe this particular point , while you may so , ) Don't suffer , as Ferdinand Pigswiddy did , Three months to elapse , ere you seek her to say so . JOHN LACHRYMOSO SMITH . WOMAN . I plucked a young rose that was smilingly growing ...
... ( Observe this particular point , while you may so , ) Don't suffer , as Ferdinand Pigswiddy did , Three months to elapse , ere you seek her to say so . JOHN LACHRYMOSO SMITH . WOMAN . I plucked a young rose that was smilingly growing ...
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... observation from which we set out . But it is enough for the present purpose to have said upon this point just so much . It cannot fail to strike the mind of him who compares our popular writings of the last century with those of the ...
... observation from which we set out . But it is enough for the present purpose to have said upon this point just so much . It cannot fail to strike the mind of him who compares our popular writings of the last century with those of the ...
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... observe that it is — either , firstly , by the associations which their sound ( considered as music ) calls together ; or secondly , by the picture which they present immediately to the imagination . And as to the first point we may ...
... observe that it is — either , firstly , by the associations which their sound ( considered as music ) calls together ; or secondly , by the picture which they present immediately to the imagination . And as to the first point we may ...
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... observation of fame ; but who knows whether the invisible element may not yet confer as high a renown upon mortals as the earth and sea have already done ? Whether some Columbus of the skies may not speedily commence an honourable ...
... observation of fame ; but who knows whether the invisible element may not yet confer as high a renown upon mortals as the earth and sea have already done ? Whether some Columbus of the skies may not speedily commence an honourable ...
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... observation ; the sunny moments that at some time or other gild the lives of all of us ; the feelings that love , and ... observe , and consider , and compare ; we must acquaint ourselves with the world around us , with its beautiful ...
... observation ; the sunny moments that at some time or other gild the lives of all of us ; the feelings that love , and ... observe , and consider , and compare ; we must acquaint ourselves with the world around us , with its beautiful ...
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Page 143 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 200 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Page 198 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. It seems to float ever, for ever, Upon that many-winding river, Between mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses ! Till, like one in slumber bound Borne to the ocean, I float down, around, Into a sea profound of ever-spreading sound.
Page 334 - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Page 120 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 337 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 198 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 188 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found. It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, -- No living wight could work, ne cared even for play.
Page 146 - And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile ; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Page 198 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.