The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL. D.: Annotated, with a Life of the AuthorRedfield, 1857 - 358 pages |
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... wish that he had borne in mind this quaint thought of the old moralist , and had felt with him , that we must all make provision for our names , ' because , ' to subsist in bones , and be but pyramidally extant , is a fallacy in du ...
... wish that he had borne in mind this quaint thought of the old moralist , and had felt with him , that we must all make provision for our names , ' because , ' to subsist in bones , and be but pyramidally extant , is a fallacy in du ...
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... Bohn's translations more than their own industry : " I wish , " said he , " there was more muscle and less Bohn in your translations to - day . " what was then called a construing from any of these xviii MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MAGINN .
... Bohn's translations more than their own industry : " I wish , " said he , " there was more muscle and less Bohn in your translations to - day . " what was then called a construing from any of these xviii MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MAGINN .
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... wishes to publish it as a nice little book . ' Having in me not the slightest literary ambition , I do not care if all the critics in England say that this poem of mine is abominable , or pronounce me a base follower of Hood , but I do ...
... wishes to publish it as a nice little book . ' Having in me not the slightest literary ambition , I do not care if all the critics in England say that this poem of mine is abominable , or pronounce me a base follower of Hood , but I do ...
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... wish every happiness and success ; and for those among their contributors whose writings tend to amuse or instruct and many among them there are to whom such praise may be justly applied we feel the highest honor and respect . We wish ...
... wish every happiness and success ; and for those among their contributors whose writings tend to amuse or instruct and many among them there are to whom such praise may be justly applied we feel the highest honor and respect . We wish ...
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... wish to have a slap at every thing and every one , a something like the Noctes Ambrosianæ . Write for the West Indians - write for the East Indians - write up Protestanism - write down Jerry Bentham . * The Methodists are an ungleaned ...
... wish to have a slap at every thing and every one , a something like the Noctes Ambrosianæ . Write for the West Indians - write for the East Indians - write up Protestanism - write down Jerry Bentham . * The Methodists are an ungleaned ...
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Page 244 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 17 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 78 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 38 - 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 a man : This was your husband.
Page 47 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Page 133 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 120 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 17 - Time but th' impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 302 - I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Page lvii - But should there be to whom the fatal blight Of failing Wisdom yields a base delight, Men who exult when minds 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 seem'd Vice might be but Woe.