University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1855 |
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... give me a hint how to handle the reins . This CAPRICORN seems a wild sort of a beast to drive , and he is setting his head down as if he was going to butt with his horns . " " My son , " said the senior , " it would be useless for me to ...
... give me a hint how to handle the reins . This CAPRICORN seems a wild sort of a beast to drive , and he is setting his head down as if he was going to butt with his horns . " " My son , " said the senior , " it would be useless for me to ...
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... give your cousin Jacob , sir ? Why , just £ 50 in hands , and a bond for £ 50 more , to be paid upon this day , provided he fulfilled the conditions you imposed upon him . Well , sir , he has fulfilled the conditions ; he is still in ...
... give your cousin Jacob , sir ? Why , just £ 50 in hands , and a bond for £ 50 more , to be paid upon this day , provided he fulfilled the conditions you imposed upon him . Well , sir , he has fulfilled the conditions ; he is still in ...
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... give you notice that I do not withdraw my claim to the legacy of my late worthy Cousin Abraham . And though I have said little , I have thought all the more ; and I have made up my mind to be at you as well as the rest . And so I wish ...
... give you notice that I do not withdraw my claim to the legacy of my late worthy Cousin Abraham . And though I have said little , I have thought all the more ; and I have made up my mind to be at you as well as the rest . And so I wish ...
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... give no account of why she had done this thing . She seemed not to understand the agony her absence had produced ; nor did her mind at all go into the conse- quences of her flight . She appeared to have but the one simple idea , and the ...
... give no account of why she had done this thing . She seemed not to understand the agony her absence had produced ; nor did her mind at all go into the conse- quences of her flight . She appeared to have but the one simple idea , and the ...
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... give up their hearts when they find their lovers drawn for the service , and spend the days of absence in sighing and con- sulting prophets . Vienble , for the small sum named , would tell the month of the lover's return . If the lady ...
... give up their hearts when they find their lovers drawn for the service , and spend the days of absence in sighing and con- sulting prophets . Vienble , for the small sum named , would tell the month of the lover's return . If the lady ...
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Page 453 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies ; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 447 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 552 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 288 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 87 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is something more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank), which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian.
Page 87 - There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank) which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of faculties I allude to have minds rather suggestive than comprehensive. They have no pretences to much clearness or precision in their ideas, or in their manner of expressing them.
Page 311 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 393 - But doubt not aught from mine array. Thou art my guest; I pledged my word As far as Coilantogle ford : Nor would I call a clansman's brand For aid against one valiant hand, Though on our strife lay every vale Rent by the Saxon from the Gael. So move we on; I only meant To show the reed on which you leant, Deeming this path you might pursue Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
Page 533 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that, which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe...
Page 364 - But in this genial interval, nature is in all her freshness and fragrance ; " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.