Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 14W. Blackwood., 1823 |
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... writer- a glorious song - writer - the pupil and friend of the celebrated Dr Samuel Johnson . Old Cibber's Apology , and some of his comedies stand in the very first order of meritoriousness - John Kemble was a prime black - letter scho ...
... writer- a glorious song - writer - the pupil and friend of the celebrated Dr Samuel Johnson . Old Cibber's Apology , and some of his comedies stand in the very first order of meritoriousness - John Kemble was a prime black - letter scho ...
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... writes an octavo every month ? no such things . Does Jeffrey plead his causes a bit the worse because he is the editor of the Edinburgh Review ? Does Wordsworth write worse poems , for collecting the taxes of Cumber- land , or Lamb ...
... writes an octavo every month ? no such things . Does Jeffrey plead his causes a bit the worse because he is the editor of the Edinburgh Review ? Does Wordsworth write worse poems , for collecting the taxes of Cumber- land , or Lamb ...
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... write the more spiritedly for being encouraged , and as for being too rapid and careless of execution , this is a species of trans- gression which no one will think Mr Rose likely to fall into . Never was such close scrupulous fidelity ...
... write the more spiritedly for being encouraged , and as for being too rapid and careless of execution , this is a species of trans- gression which no one will think Mr Rose likely to fall into . Never was such close scrupulous fidelity ...
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... write a poem , and Hazlitt a Liber Amoris ; Nobody cares a fig for the Balaam of Baron or Cockney . All were absorbed at once in the one profound speculation , Who was the man to be the new pugilistical Dymoke . Neat and the Gasman put ...
... write a poem , and Hazlitt a Liber Amoris ; Nobody cares a fig for the Balaam of Baron or Cockney . All were absorbed at once in the one profound speculation , Who was the man to be the new pugilistical Dymoke . Neat and the Gasman put ...
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... write Greek , Addison not worth reading , Socrates a scoundrel , Burns nothing but a blackguard . In a word , that ... writes thirty pages full of words at a time for the Edinburgh Review . But , to be serious , why did C. quote ...
... write Greek , Addison not worth reading , Socrates a scoundrel , Burns nothing but a blackguard . In a word , that ... writes thirty pages full of words at a time for the Edinburgh Review . But , to be serious , why did C. quote ...
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Page 322 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 368 - Above all others make I large concession. For thou must move a world, and be the master — He kills thee who condemns thee to inaction. So be it then ! maintain thee in thy post By violence. Resist the Emperor, And, if it must be, force with force repel : I will not praise it, yet I can forgive it. But not — not to the traitor — yes!
Page 458 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war, or wantonness. Let them that will, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil.
Page 232 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 459 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?
Page 331 - 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.
Page 102 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go. And be you blithe and bonny ; ' Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 460 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 459 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam; and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Page 373 - Only the inevitable. As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.