The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... ment even in the present advanced condition of society . The causes of this early progress of poetry are easily discoverable . They are to be found , in the first place , in that superior power which is gained by the faculty of ima ...
... ment even in the present advanced condition of society . The causes of this early progress of poetry are easily discoverable . They are to be found , in the first place , in that superior power which is gained by the faculty of ima ...
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... ment of physics and the arts . The chronology of Pont confirms the tes- timony borne to his skill in mathe- matics and astronomy . Napier , the inventor of logarithmic calculation , is a name sufficient to give celebrity to the age in ...
... ment of physics and the arts . The chronology of Pont confirms the tes- timony borne to his skill in mathe- matics and astronomy . Napier , the inventor of logarithmic calculation , is a name sufficient to give celebrity to the age in ...
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... ment of the stupendous calamity which had plunged three mighty nations in mourning ; and , with this view , the preacher directs the attention of his hearers to that life and immortality which has been brought to light by the Gospel ...
... ment of the stupendous calamity which had plunged three mighty nations in mourning ; and , with this view , the preacher directs the attention of his hearers to that life and immortality which has been brought to light by the Gospel ...
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... ment of querulous sagacity , and the de- jection of unbelieving despondency ; it ac- companies us through life , divesting ca- lamity of danger , and prosperity of pre- sumption , giving to the individual strength to resist the shock ...
... ment of querulous sagacity , and the de- jection of unbelieving despondency ; it ac- companies us through life , divesting ca- lamity of danger , and prosperity of pre- sumption , giving to the individual strength to resist the shock ...
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... ment of bamboo or hard wood , is forth- with reduced to a powder like saw - dust . The process of separating the farina from the accompanying bran and filaments is simple and obvious , and consists merely in mixing the powdered medulla ...
... ment of bamboo or hard wood , is forth- with reduced to a powder like saw - dust . The process of separating the farina from the accompanying bran and filaments is simple and obvious , and consists merely in mixing the powdered medulla ...
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Seite 309 - Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme...
Seite 309 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Seite 536 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert ; go not forth : behold, He is in the secret chambers ; believe it not.
Seite 308 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 309 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Seite 309 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night...
Seite 309 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Seite 308 - Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Seite 308 - Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
Seite 308 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.