The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 94Archibald Constable and Company, 1824 |
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... happy ; to the endeavour of making those around friends more unfeignedly attached to him . no man ever possessed The ungrateful world did not feel his loss , and the gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murder ...
... happy ; to the endeavour of making those around friends more unfeignedly attached to him . no man ever possessed The ungrateful world did not feel his loss , and the gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murder ...
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... happy night , Art thou come and gone : As the earth when leaves are dead , As the night when sleep is sped , As the heart when joy is fled , I am left lone , alone . Lilies for a bridal bed , Roses for a matron's head , Violets for a ...
... happy night , Art thou come and gone : As the earth when leaves are dead , As the night when sleep is sped , As the heart when joy is fled , I am left lone , alone . Lilies for a bridal bed , Roses for a matron's head , Violets for a ...
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... happy ; see him stand By yonder lifeless form , and on his cheek Mark the big tear in silent language speak , As the gay flowers drop sadly from his hand . They fall upon his last his youngest child , Him on whose sunny face he lov'd to ...
... happy ; see him stand By yonder lifeless form , and on his cheek Mark the big tear in silent language speak , As the gay flowers drop sadly from his hand . They fall upon his last his youngest child , Him on whose sunny face he lov'd to ...
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... happy , and sung me two or three songs while we rested ourselves . One of them was of a Jacobite character , and appa- rently not very old ; it was so con- cordant with my feelings in some respects , that I was desirous to pos- sess it ...
... happy , and sung me two or three songs while we rested ourselves . One of them was of a Jacobite character , and appa- rently not very old ; it was so con- cordant with my feelings in some respects , that I was desirous to pos- sess it ...
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... happy couple , as they visited at my father's during the honey - moon . He had a manly and graceful air ; she was slender , but beautifully elegant in form and sta- ture , with a mild but melting lustre in her eye , and a blush of ...
... happy couple , as they visited at my father's during the honey - moon . He had a manly and graceful air ; she was slender , but beautifully elegant in form and sta- ture , with a mild but melting lustre in her eye , and a blush of ...
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Page 80 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 266 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Page 313 - I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; — 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Page 35 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 16 - WHEN the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Page 16 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 266 - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Page 17 - How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff at pain. Spirit false! thou hast forgot All but those who need thee not. As a lizard with the shade Of a trembling leaf, Thou with sorrow art dismayed; Even the sighs of grief Reproach thee, that thou art not near, And reproach thou wilt not hear.
Page 266 - Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you ; do this in remembrance of me. Likewise after supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins; do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.
Page 259 - Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do: because I go to the Father.