Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 61W. Blackwood., 1847 |
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Page 138
... ballads , squibs , epigrams , & c . , till at length he revived in the listener such a sort of recollection of them , as made him imagine that Mr. Smith must have recently committed them to memory for some special purpose , but for ...
... ballads , squibs , epigrams , & c . , till at length he revived in the listener such a sort of recollection of them , as made him imagine that Mr. Smith must have recently committed them to memory for some special purpose , but for ...
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... ballad - singer in France . In- numerable were the difficulties he had to overcome before he could fully gratify his passion for acting , and display his innate talent at a Paris theatre . His father , an old soldier of Napoleon's ...
... ballad - singer in France . In- numerable were the difficulties he had to overcome before he could fully gratify his passion for acting , and display his innate talent at a Paris theatre . His father , an old soldier of Napoleon's ...
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... ballad over their heads . Even this was some relief to the monotony of their life in the cellar , and they would often get their attendant to set it agoing . The girl , delighted to find her voice in request , and little dreaming what ...
... ballad over their heads . Even this was some relief to the monotony of their life in the cellar , and they would often get their attendant to set it agoing . The girl , delighted to find her voice in request , and little dreaming what ...
Page 506
... ballad written on him and sung about the streets . Write it , and call him " The Man- mountain , or real and undoubted Pro- montory of Noses . " GRATIAN.It should seem they were like enough to feast - like their gods they so ...
... ballad written on him and sung about the streets . Write it , and call him " The Man- mountain , or real and undoubted Pro- montory of Noses . " GRATIAN.It should seem they were like enough to feast - like their gods they so ...
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... ballad - singer in the middle ages . Our ideas of the hero are invo- luntarily connected with the figure of a tall old man , clad in a ragged man- tle , with a stout staff in his left hand , and a platter to receive an obolus in his ...
... ballad - singer in the middle ages . Our ideas of the hero are invo- luntarily connected with the figure of a tall old man , clad in a ragged man- tle , with a stout staff in his left hand , and a platter to receive an obolus in his ...
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Page 386 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 129 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 128 - License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good : But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 343 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 627 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 418 - I called not myself to this place. I say again, I called not myself to this place ! Of that God is witness : — and I have many witnesses who, I do believe, could lay down their lives bearing witness to the truth of that. Namely, That I called not myself to this place...
Page 407 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 406 - Thirdly, Whether this Army be not a lawful Power, called by God to oppose and fight against the king upon some stated grounds ; and being in power to such ends, may not oppose one Name of Authority, for those ends, as well as another Name...
Page 411 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men...
Page 556 - METHINKS we do as fretful children do, Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view : And thus, alas, since God the maker drew A mystic separation 'twixt those twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto By grief we are fools to use.