The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 94Archibald Constable and Company, 1824 - English literature |
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... lady arrived , their ve- hicle of conveyance being a common cart ; their cushions - sacks stuffed with straw , and their carpet clean dry hay : Mrs Halliday was a tall , masculine - looking woman , very plain- ly dressed , and , both in ...
... lady arrived , their ve- hicle of conveyance being a common cart ; their cushions - sacks stuffed with straw , and their carpet clean dry hay : Mrs Halliday was a tall , masculine - looking woman , very plain- ly dressed , and , both in ...
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... lady's face expressed re- sentment at this declaration , and she flung out , slamming the door behind her . I expressed my surprise that he should trouble himself with cows , having no glebe . He replied , that Mrs H. being from the ...
... lady's face expressed re- sentment at this declaration , and she flung out , slamming the door behind her . I expressed my surprise that he should trouble himself with cows , having no glebe . He replied , that Mrs H. being from the ...
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... lady I had just left with Mrs Baxter ; for never had I seen two women about equal age , and in similar situations in life , more un- like each other in their habits and manners . Ay , " said my father , " the parsons have both some pecu ...
... lady I had just left with Mrs Baxter ; for never had I seen two women about equal age , and in similar situations in life , more un- like each other in their habits and manners . Ay , " said my father , " the parsons have both some pecu ...
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... Lady on St. Valentine's Eve . THIS is the eve of Valentine , And many a youth will rack his fancy , In verse and billet - doux to shine , With compliments to lovely Nancy . Methinks I see , around your room , Lie scatter'd , emblems ...
... Lady on St. Valentine's Eve . THIS is the eve of Valentine , And many a youth will rack his fancy , In verse and billet - doux to shine , With compliments to lovely Nancy . Methinks I see , around your room , Lie scatter'd , emblems ...
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EDGEFIELD . Folks call you " lady " -gentle , fair ,. not vilization ; as is exemplified in the Covenanters , under the sway of reli- gious enthusiasm , -the Celts in a semi - barbarous state , & c . These characters , then , being ...
EDGEFIELD . Folks call you " lady " -gentle , fair ,. not vilization ; as is exemplified in the Covenanters , under the sway of reli- gious enthusiasm , -the Celts in a semi - barbarous state , & c . These characters , then , being ...
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Page 80 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 266 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Page 313 - I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; — 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Page 35 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 16 - WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Page 16 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 266 - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Page 17 - How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff at pain. Spirit false! thou hast forgot All but those who need thee not. As a lizard with the shade Of a trembling leaf, Thou with sorrow art dismayed; Even the sighs of grief Reproach thee, that thou art not near, And reproach thou wilt not hear.
Page 266 - Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you ; do this in remembrance of me. Likewise after supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins; do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.
Page 259 - Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do: because I go to the Father.