Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 61W. Blackwood., 1847 |
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... sion . " Madam , " an old Bonapartist lady one day wrote to her , " if the Bourbons had not returned to France for the misfortune of the nation- my beloved mistress and protectress , the Empress Maria Louisa , would still be upon the ...
... sion . " Madam , " an old Bonapartist lady one day wrote to her , " if the Bourbons had not returned to France for the misfortune of the nation- my beloved mistress and protectress , the Empress Maria Louisa , would still be upon the ...
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... sion . " The vessel now weighed anchor . Departure - and a beautiful sunset- made the view delightful . But day- light soon deserted them . Mr. Bloom- field came to take the ladies down to the cabin , where a meal , which might be ...
... sion . " The vessel now weighed anchor . Departure - and a beautiful sunset- made the view delightful . But day- light soon deserted them . Mr. Bloom- field came to take the ladies down to the cabin , where a meal , which might be ...
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... sion of vernacular versions of Scrip- ture , as well as other benefits of which we are still reaping the good fruits . The permanent importance of the struggles then maintained for eccle- siastical ascendency , and the profes- sion and ...
... sion of vernacular versions of Scrip- ture , as well as other benefits of which we are still reaping the good fruits . The permanent importance of the struggles then maintained for eccle- siastical ascendency , and the profes- sion and ...
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... sion of the last remnants of Paganism in England , would have been enough to immortalise their author , inde- pendently of his influence on the out- ward discipline of the Church . To the chequered and restless career of Wilfrith , thus ...
... sion of the last remnants of Paganism in England , would have been enough to immortalise their author , inde- pendently of his influence on the out- ward discipline of the Church . To the chequered and restless career of Wilfrith , thus ...
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... sion prevents full confidence in the sincerity of their motives . I feel no sympathy with those who , with the ignoble violence of petty minds , preach up a war against the aristocracy , im- pugn all motives but their own , and seem to ...
... sion prevents full confidence in the sincerity of their motives . I feel no sympathy with those who , with the ignoble violence of petty minds , preach up a war against the aristocracy , im- pugn all motives but their own , and seem to ...
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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.