Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Том 115

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William Blackwood, 1874

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Страница 694 - Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five: For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five: He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish...
Страница 738 - What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing — the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.
Страница 82 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of.
Страница 683 - ... pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have...
Страница 225 - Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Страница 687 - Put no water at all, For it maketh things small ; Which, lest it should happen, A close cover cap on. Put this pot of Wood's metal§ In a hot boiling kettle, And there let it be (Mark the doctrine I teach) About — let me see — Thrice as long as you preach.
Страница 81 - ... without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for: no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have dried up within me, as completely as those of benevolence.
Страница 629 - Goschen has employed in another connection: " a chaos as regards authorities, a chaos as regards rates and a worse chaos than all as regards areas.
Страница 255 - E'en then, a wish, I mind its power — A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Страница 690 - Sing, heavenly muse, Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme;" A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters...

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