The Paisley magazine Vol 1 |
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20. oldal
... reading public , they must be as unin- teresting and as unintelligible as a Coptic alphabet . This doom pro- nounced on the lyrical effusions of him who claims being the author " of our own song , Kelvin Grove , " ( a song , by the bye ...
... reading public , they must be as unin- teresting and as unintelligible as a Coptic alphabet . This doom pro- nounced on the lyrical effusions of him who claims being the author " of our own song , Kelvin Grove , " ( a song , by the bye ...
23. oldal
... reader may have an unstinted bellyful - a very glut of that ridiculous maudlin baby - like prattle about flowers - that puffed and bombasted wordiness which covers imbecility of thought , and poverty of senti- ment - a fault which has ...
... reader may have an unstinted bellyful - a very glut of that ridiculous maudlin baby - like prattle about flowers - that puffed and bombasted wordiness which covers imbecility of thought , and poverty of senti- ment - a fault which has ...
24. oldal
... readers , and as you fling its con- tents about , giving them hard names that not six of those who pur- chase your book understand . You might as well have tumbled down a medicine , chest , and then catalogued its multifarious drugs in ...
... readers , and as you fling its con- tents about , giving them hard names that not six of those who pur- chase your book understand . You might as well have tumbled down a medicine , chest , and then catalogued its multifarious drugs in ...
25. oldal
... reader of early poesy . of some well known pieces , he gives the worst versions : the moral song " My Minde to me a Kingdome is , " he takes from " Byrd's Songs and Sonets , " in which compilation it is curtailed nearly one- half . Nay ...
... reader of early poesy . of some well known pieces , he gives the worst versions : the moral song " My Minde to me a Kingdome is , " he takes from " Byrd's Songs and Sonets , " in which compilation it is curtailed nearly one- half . Nay ...
27. oldal
... readers with . " We come now to the Fourth Section of " Ancient Ballads and Songs , " which is composed of pieces ... reader to the " Portfolio of British Song , Glasgow 1824 , " where the argument for Lyle is stated at length . But as ...
... readers with . " We come now to the Fourth Section of " Ancient Ballads and Songs , " which is composed of pieces ... reader to the " Portfolio of British Song , Glasgow 1824 , " where the argument for Lyle is stated at length . But as ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
587. oldal - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
334. oldal - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
144. oldal - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
252. oldal - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
335. oldal - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law : but 'tis not so above ; ' There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.
225. oldal - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
335. oldal - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
459. oldal - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?
73. oldal - ... a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, black, plain both ; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go like myself.
372. oldal - Can make a scoff of its mean joys, and vent a nobler mirth ! But soft! mine ear upcaught a sound, — from yonder wood it came ! The spirit of the dim green glade did breathe his own glad name ; — Yes, it is he ! the hermit bird, that, apart from all his kind, Slow spells his beads monotonous to the soft western wind ; Cuckoo! cuckoo!