Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69William Blackwood, 1851 |
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... poets , who were so soon to hang elegiac wreaths of mournful verse on the early bier of her who then stood among them in her fragile and almost unearthly loveliness , radiant with hope , and joy , and happy love , called her ' the ...
... poets , who were so soon to hang elegiac wreaths of mournful verse on the early bier of her who then stood among them in her fragile and almost unearthly loveliness , radiant with hope , and joy , and happy love , called her ' the ...
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... poetic of his countrymen ? Plainly this , that he seized with a keen glance , and a grand comprehensiveness , the minstrel character of the POPULAR EPOS of early ages , as distinguished from the more artificial and curiously piled ...
... poetic of his countrymen ? Plainly this , that he seized with a keen glance , and a grand comprehensiveness , the minstrel character of the POPULAR EPOS of early ages , as distinguished from the more artificial and curiously piled ...
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... poem , also called the Niebe- Epos ; for though she is as gentle and mild. of the mould that measures one thing to another , and an altogether different thing , is indeed a common enough trick of our every - day judgments ; but it is ...
... poem , also called the Niebe- Epos ; for though she is as gentle and mild. of the mould that measures one thing to another , and an altogether different thing , is indeed a common enough trick of our every - day judgments ; but it is ...
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... poem . The second introduces us to the most prominent male character in the first part of the poem - for it is divided into two distinct parts or acts - the famous SIEGFRIED , " with the horny hide , " as the old German chap - book has ...
... poem . The second introduces us to the most prominent male character in the first part of the poem - for it is divided into two distinct parts or acts - the famous SIEGFRIED , " with the horny hide , " as the old German chap - book has ...
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... poem is studded : - " So with kind dismissal away the warriors strode ; Then quick the fair queen summon'd , from bow'rs where they abode , Thirty maids , her brother's purpose to fulfil , Who in works of the needle were the chief for ...
... poem is studded : - " So with kind dismissal away the warriors strode ; Then quick the fair queen summon'd , from bow'rs where they abode , Thirty maids , her brother's purpose to fulfil , Who in works of the needle were the chief for ...
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Page 577 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 441 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 518 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock...
Page 318 - Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 252 - I do declare that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 518 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. We know what master laid thy keel; What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel; Who made each mast and sail and rope; What anvils rang, what hammers beat; In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
Page 441 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator,...
Page 265 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan...
Page 518 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 294 - And," continued the Italian mournfully, "recalling now all the evil passions it arouses, all the ties it dissolves, all the blood that it commands to flow, all the healthful industry it arrests, all the madmen that it arms, all the victims that it dupes, I question whether one man really honest, pure, and humane, who has once gone through such an ordeal, would ever hazard it again, unless he was assured that the victory was certain — ay, and the object for which he fights not to be wrested from...