Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1819 - 376 страници |
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... young artist , some of whose works I saw when there , to give him assistance - I mean Mr Stewart , who is engraving Allan's Picture of The Robbers dividing their Spoil . By the bye , I had a note from Sir Joseph Banks a day or two ago ...
... young artist , some of whose works I saw when there , to give him assistance - I mean Mr Stewart , who is engraving Allan's Picture of The Robbers dividing their Spoil . By the bye , I had a note from Sir Joseph Banks a day or two ago ...
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... young blood boiled within us , as we passed over the very stones that had drank the drops as they oozed from the fresh - dissevered head of brave old Balmerino ! With what con- sciousness of reverence did we pace along the Strand ...
... young blood boiled within us , as we passed over the very stones that had drank the drops as they oozed from the fresh - dissevered head of brave old Balmerino ! With what con- sciousness of reverence did we pace along the Strand ...
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... young barrister of this place , when , in turning the corner of a street , my old friend , Will Wastle , passed close at my elbow . I knew him in a moment , although he is greatly changed , and called after him . He turned round with a ...
... young barrister of this place , when , in turning the corner of a street , my old friend , Will Wastle , passed close at my elbow . I knew him in a moment , although he is greatly changed , and called after him . He turned round with a ...
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... the wo- men . Those , even of the peasantry , seem , when young , to be comely and well complexioned ; but it is a great mistake to suppose that they are fairer than with us . And yet the testimony 44 NATIONAL FEATURES .
... the wo- men . Those , even of the peasantry , seem , when young , to be comely and well complexioned ; but it is a great mistake to suppose that they are fairer than with us . And yet the testimony 44 NATIONAL FEATURES .
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... young advocates , who had walked out with them . Then came Robert Morehead , whom you remember at Balliol , a relation and intimate friend of Mr Jef frey's . He and the celebrated orator Alison offi- ciate together in one of the ...
... young advocates , who had walked out with them . Then came Robert Morehead , whom you remember at Balliol , a relation and intimate friend of Mr Jef frey's . He and the celebrated orator Alison offi- ciate together in one of the ...
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Страница 183 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.
Страница 224 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Страница 127 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Страница 138 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Страница 145 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Страница 184 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man, My haunt, and the main region of my Song.
Страница 115 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Страница 145 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Страница 119 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Страница 130 - In complexion, he is the best specimen I have ever seen of the genuine or ideal Goth. His hair is of the true Sicambrian yellow ; his eyes are of the lightest, and at the same time of the clearest blue ; and the blood glows in his cheek with as firm a fervour as it did, according to the description of Jornandes, in those of the " Bello gaudentes, prselio ridentes Teutones