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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 450
1821
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Mrs. Jordan, Volume 2

James Boadan - 1800 - 380 pages
...candidly be imputed. But our astonishment will not at all be lessened by this admission. " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder?" The letter from Mrs. Jordan upon the subject of the disagreement mentions her forbearance, and that...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 20

1805 - 456 pages
...she introduced herself by speaking tome lines written by a poet of the age of twelve. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? " This young lady made her appearance in the character of Young Norval, on Wednesday night. A more...
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The Mysterious Freebooter: Or, The Days of Queen Bess. A Romance ...

Francis Lathom - 1806 - 328 pages
...remember, -thatEloise will never lift her hand against her own existence /" CHAP. XIIL Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer'* cloud, Without our special wonder ? JnLERE ended the manuscript. " Thou didst never return to thy task, then, unfortunate Eloise!" exclaimed...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...have displaced the mirth, broke the good, meeting, With most uilmirM disorder. JVorfi. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer*! cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that 1 owe, When now I think you con behold such sights,...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection ..., Volume 16

Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1813 - 404 pages
...is added, a legal Disquisition on the Art of Shifting.—The motto— •" • • Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, , Without our special wonder ?" The Complete Letter Writer, by WW Pole. Hoylc upon Games Improved, by Lord Yarmouth. With an introductory...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 25

1829 - 840 pages
...heart, and that the loyal and well-affected were filled •with unwonted alarms ? " Could Biicli things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ?" Thank God, a stronger feeling than wonder was excited by them ; even that to which the country h...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 97

1825 - 798 pages
...the philosopher's stone is discovered at last — the talisman of immortality : -" Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder !" Badinage apart, the Omen is a production of rather a novel nature. It professes to be founded on...
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Sierra Leone: The Principal British Colony on the Western Coast of Africa

William Whitaker Shreeve - 1817 - 128 pages
...gain, not rather to discourage improvement where ignorance secures their advantage. . " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder?" Mysterious are the ways of Providence! How wonderful the contemplation, for what future purpose is...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 800 pages
...a-year for the expences of the office : it may be so ; but we have heard that the citizens of the black and smoky town of Newcastle give their chief magistrate...all the British monarchies. What makes the shame of the thing more striking is, that the •whole of what is wanted might be easily obtained, and in a...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 18

1823 - 836 pages
...place in one of the most celebrated editions of the works of the northern luminary. Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder? Aye, even so, for the age is evil and co'rrupt ! But here are the lines : " ' O Goudic ! terror of...
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