Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122William Blackwood, 1877 - England |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 29
... strong fortification deemed impregnable , which received the name of Fort Gura . At the same time we also fortified the mountain of Kayakhor , which we had just passed . It is necessary to bear in mind that the two positions were only ...
... strong fortification deemed impregnable , which received the name of Fort Gura . At the same time we also fortified the mountain of Kayakhor , which we had just passed . It is necessary to bear in mind that the two positions were only ...
Page 36
... strong excitement of war or the chase . So that when the exchange of prisoners took place in which the doctor was included , no letter was ready , and he was allowed to leave without it which was probably a saving of labour , since it ...
... strong excitement of war or the chase . So that when the exchange of prisoners took place in which the doctor was included , no letter was ready , and he was allowed to leave without it which was probably a saving of labour , since it ...
Page 58
... strong - minded , determined character ; and if she believed it to be her duty to walk to the end of the world , she would gravely set out to do it ; and she would fall on her nose at the twelfth step , and sit there looking at you with ...
... strong - minded , determined character ; and if she believed it to be her duty to walk to the end of the world , she would gravely set out to do it ; and she would fall on her nose at the twelfth step , and sit there looking at you with ...
Page 65
... strong contrast to the type of their Saxon neighbours . When at length we drove away , we had the unusual and comfortable feeling of having seen a beautiful art produced under the happiest conditions , instead of having , as is ...
... strong contrast to the type of their Saxon neighbours . When at length we drove away , we had the unusual and comfortable feeling of having seen a beautiful art produced under the happiest conditions , instead of having , as is ...
Page 78
... strong , and these not amongst the small - minded only , but amongst those who like himself were honestly striving for the German common weal , but who failed to comprehend the true bearing of his efforts . In Heine's love and purpose ...
... strong , and these not amongst the small - minded only , but amongst those who like himself were honestly striving for the German common weal , but who failed to comprehend the true bearing of his efforts . In Heine's love and purpose ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able Armenia army attack aunt Austria beautiful believe Bulgaria Burnaby Cadenabbia Calverley Captain certainly charming command Constantinople Cosmo course cried CXXII.-NO Dalmatia Danube dear delightful Denwick doubt Egypt Elsie enemy England English Esmè Europe eyes father favour feel followed force give Glencairn Government hand heart honour hope Hopper idea Indian interest Khedive Khelat king lady less look Lord Germistoune Lord Hartington means Mehemet Ali Menelaus ment mind Montenegrin Mukhtar Pasha Murat nature ness never night once Orchanie party Pasha passed Pauline peace perhaps Plevna political poor position present question Ravenhall Russian scarcely seemed sian side sion speak strong success Suleiman Suleiman Pasha suppose sure tain tell thing thought tion troops Turkey Turkish Turks turned Victor Hugo whole wish word young
Popular passages
Page 137 - Lotos and lilies : and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro
Page 418 - Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o
Page 721 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 416 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 737 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.
Page 413 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 414 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Page 416 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 737 - Midas turned all things to gold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye; and by a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart.
Page 737 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night...