The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 87Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 - English literature |
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... admiration enhanced , as she repeatedly to the daughter of Anthony Foster , the close attendant , who , with equal curiosity , but somewhat less ecstatic joy , followed on her mistress's footsteps- O , Janet ! how much more delightful ...
... admiration enhanced , as she repeatedly to the daughter of Anthony Foster , the close attendant , who , with equal curiosity , but somewhat less ecstatic joy , followed on her mistress's footsteps- O , Janet ! how much more delightful ...
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... admiration , which suited so well with his fine features , that the warders , struck with his rich attire and noble countenance , suffered him to ap . proach the ground over which the Queen was to pass , somewhat closer than was ...
... admiration , which suited so well with his fine features , that the warders , struck with his rich attire and noble countenance , suffered him to ap . proach the ground over which the Queen was to pass , somewhat closer than was ...
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... admiration at Rome , as long as there existed any spirit of enterprise , and which , upon the subversion of that empire , whose eternity it had fondly predicted , pas- sed safely and proudly through the dark and stormy ages which subse ...
... admiration at Rome , as long as there existed any spirit of enterprise , and which , upon the subversion of that empire , whose eternity it had fondly predicted , pas- sed safely and proudly through the dark and stormy ages which subse ...
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... admiration might hereafter have become , the early death of Cecilia does not allow us to know ; but his passion was purely poetical in its origin , and poetical and Petrarchal in its continuance . It seems never to have gone beyond ...
... admiration might hereafter have become , the early death of Cecilia does not allow us to know ; but his passion was purely poetical in its origin , and poetical and Petrarchal in its continuance . It seems never to have gone beyond ...
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... admiration . e who are conter These brief and imperfect remarks cannot be better illustrated than by the following eloquent passage from why , and cares not wherefore ; " but this 1621 . 51 On Coleridge's " Friend . " On Coleridge's ...
... admiration . e who are conter These brief and imperfect remarks cannot be better illustrated than by the following eloquent passage from why , and cares not wherefore ; " but this 1621 . 51 On Coleridge's " Friend . " On Coleridge's ...
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Page 545 - Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone : Embracing all, — supporting, — ruling o'er,— Being whom we call GOD — and know no more...
Page 193 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste dispatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 546 - But the effluence of Thy light divine, Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too ; Yes! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine, As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Page 547 - The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is matter's last gradation lost, And the next step is spirit, — Deity ! I can command the lightning and am dust ! A monarch and a slave...
Page 146 - The troublesome Raigne and lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
Page 48 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar ; " With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 256 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 546 - All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
Page 427 - Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Page 146 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.