The Visitor, or, Literary miscellany1818 |
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... look- ing up , I perceived that her attendants consisted of the deceased literary characters of the country- Dr. Johnson , Addison , Steele , M'Kenzie , Hawks- worth , and a number of others ; at this my agitation increased , as from ...
... look- ing up , I perceived that her attendants consisted of the deceased literary characters of the country- Dr. Johnson , Addison , Steele , M'Kenzie , Hawks- worth , and a number of others ; at this my agitation increased , as from ...
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... look , and was much asto- nished to observe no expression of surprise , which he thought his presence ought to have inspired , for he was on his knees before her . This unknown had the finest eyes in the world , but there was the most ...
... look , and was much asto- nished to observe no expression of surprise , which he thought his presence ought to have inspired , for he was on his knees before her . This unknown had the finest eyes in the world , but there was the most ...
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... look , we may safely conclude his mind is ab- sorbed with similes and tropes , and busily employed in ascertaining the different lengths of poetic feet . The Peasant as well as the Peer can now boast of the authors whom he has perused ...
... look , we may safely conclude his mind is ab- sorbed with similes and tropes , and busily employed in ascertaining the different lengths of poetic feet . The Peasant as well as the Peer can now boast of the authors whom he has perused ...
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... look a little foolish that night . But pray , says I , how came this within your cognizance ? " Know then , he replied , that this water of Strone , over which I preside , runs into the Clyde , and separates the towns of Greenock and ...
... look a little foolish that night . But pray , says I , how came this within your cognizance ? " Know then , he replied , that this water of Strone , over which I preside , runs into the Clyde , and separates the towns of Greenock and ...
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... looks directed to her , when the eager clasp , when the parting kiss is given , and the streaming eye speaks more than language : -then it is that the victor of the world surrounds us with a scene , which humanity wants fortitude to ...
... looks directed to her , when the eager clasp , when the parting kiss is given , and the streaming eye speaks more than language : -then it is that the victor of the world surrounds us with a scene , which humanity wants fortitude to ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance Alace appear auld Barchan beam beauty bosom bright character charms circumstances confessed dark Darmance death deid deil Donaldson dream Elspa Ethelstane fair fancy feeling female frae genius Glasgow Greenock Habbie hand happy hath heart heaven Helg Helgert Hermenie honour hope hour ilka Innerkip Isbel Jane Adams Jean Adam Kilbarchan Kilmacolm La Trappe lady Laird LITERARY MISCELLANY Loch Lochwinnoch look Lord lyke mair manners mind Miss Arrol mony morning nature neir never night o'er observed Paisley perhaps person pleasure poems poet poetry Port-Glasgow possessed present pypis quha quhan Quhat quhen racter readers Renfrewshire Rothesay scene scho Scotland Scots seemed shee sleep smile song soul Street sweet taste tears thaim thair thay thee thing thocht thou thought tion town Twas VISITOR Wester Kames William Julius Mickle wish woman
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 321 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Seite 50 - THE turf shall be my fragrant shrine ; My temple, LORD ! that Arch of thine ; My censer's breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers...
Seite 112 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Seite 302 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet!
Seite 50 - There's nothing bright, above, below, From flowers that bloom to stars that glow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of thy Deity...
Seite 333 - The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ, is writ ; — Would it were worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
Seite 94 - ... while yet nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. The heart is fretted and exhausted by being subjected to an alternation of contrary excitements, with the ultimate mortifying consciousness of their contributing to no end. The long-wavering deliberation, whether to perform some bold action of difficult virtue, has often cost more to feeling than the action itself, or a series of such actions, would have cost; with the great disadvantage, too, of...
Seite 207 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Seite 92 - ... as twigs and chips, floating near the edge of a river, are intercepted by every weed, and whirled in every little eddy.
Seite 208 - Aeneas in her dreams appears, Disdainful as by day: she seems, alone, To wander, in her sleep, through ways unknown, Guideless and dark...