Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 12Munroe and Francis, 1823 |
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... heard not a breath : I sat on the turf , but I meant not to sleep , And gazed o'er that lake which for ever is new , Where clouds over clouds appear'd anxious to peep . From this bright double sky with its pearl and its blue . The ...
... heard not a breath : I sat on the turf , but I meant not to sleep , And gazed o'er that lake which for ever is new , Where clouds over clouds appear'd anxious to peep . From this bright double sky with its pearl and its blue . The ...
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... heard as he bounded away , And we led forth our sheep to their pastures again . " The old Shepherd has fairly beat both the Farmer and the Game - keeper ; but he meets with a formidable rival in a sun - scorched Veteran , who had fought ...
... heard as he bounded away , And we led forth our sheep to their pastures again . " The old Shepherd has fairly beat both the Farmer and the Game - keeper ; but he meets with a formidable rival in a sun - scorched Veteran , who had fought ...
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... Heard the gate bang , and heard her morning song ; And , as my warm , ungovern'd feelings rose , Said to myself , Heaven bless her ! there she goes . " Long would she tarry , and then dancing home , Tell how the lady bade her oftener ...
... Heard the gate bang , and heard her morning song ; And , as my warm , ungovern'd feelings rose , Said to myself , Heaven bless her ! there she goes . " Long would she tarry , and then dancing home , Tell how the lady bade her oftener ...
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... heard as the title is a taking one , " Lines to Aggravation . " Just as the party are thinking of break- ing up , they are suddenly delighted by a bright and beautiful apparition . " When in an instant every eye was drawn To one bright ...
... heard as the title is a taking one , " Lines to Aggravation . " Just as the party are thinking of break- ing up , they are suddenly delighted by a bright and beautiful apparition . " When in an instant every eye was drawn To one bright ...
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... heard that this poor fellow had slip- ped off from behind his father while on their way to shore , and was drowned . The avidity of these poor people for traffic , exceeded any thing I could have had an idea of . Many of them , after ...
... heard that this poor fellow had slip- ped off from behind his father while on their way to shore , and was drowned . The avidity of these poor people for traffic , exceeded any thing I could have had an idea of . Many of them , after ...
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Page 195 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 163 - Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave: And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Page 140 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Page 444 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 195 - I heard a fair one cry; But give to me the snoring breeze And white waves heaving high; And white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship tight and free — The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we. There's tempest in yon horned moon, And lightning in yon cloud; And hark the music, mariners! The wind is piping loud; The wind is piping loud, my boys, The lightning flashes free — While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Page 444 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Page 110 - ADELGITHA. THE ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, A.nd sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her fame. She wept, delivered from her danger ; But when he knelt to claim her glove— " Seek not,
Page 82 - ... fire to puffing out innocuous blasts of dry smoke, was so like cheating him. But he is too hard for us when we hope to commute. He beats us at barter; and when we think to set off a new failing against an old infirmity, 'tis odds but he puts the trick upon us of two for one. That (comparatively) white devil of tobacco brought with him in the end seven worse than himself.
Page 445 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, And wine, are in their feasts: But they regard not the work of the Lord, Neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 82 - ... look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, - to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not...