The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL. D.: Annotated, with a Life of the Author

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Redfield, 1857 - 358 halaman
 

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Halaman 14 - See what a grace is seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, • Where every God did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of
Halaman 52 - That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. IDEM LATINE REDDITUM.
Halaman 83 - clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart! Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel: While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Halaman xcviii - of the air.— But I had then the sense of sweetest influences, [To the Ladies. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That have their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by
Halaman 14 - station like the herald Mercury, New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, • Where every God did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man Fit to be called the modern Novelist !" (The gentleman mounted the ladder with a half-pay military air, nodded with an air of nonchalance to two or three well-rigged dandies near the
Halaman 194 - then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon. " 19. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp, in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had
Halaman 157 - Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there; or, if he do not, 'tis no great matter there. Ham. Why? 1st Clown. 'Twill not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he.
Halaman lxviii - of heavenly tone Jar in the music which was born their own, Still let them pause — ah ! little do they know That what to them seemed Vice might be but Woe." How little his waking intellect was affected by this cause, may be judged from the fact that some of his very best productions—those in
Halaman 118 - No more of old romantic sorrows, For slaughtered youth and love-lorn maid — With sharper grief is Yarrow smitten, And Ettrick mourns with her their Shepherd dead!" After this it is a pitiable thing to go back to Willis—but our irksome task must be done. Here, then, we are called upon for a fact or two.
Halaman 189 - vis venti apta faciendo igni co-orta esset) succendunt, ardentiaque saxa infuso aceto putrefaciunt. Ita torridam incendio rupem ferro pandunt, molliuntque anfractibus modicis clivos, ut non jumenta solum, sed elephanti etiam, deduci possent." Which is thus translated by George Baker:— the rocks were violently heated, they opened a way through it with iron

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