The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, כרך 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 2
... wish to concentrate the hottest rays of my genius upon the yet cold , and somewhat - unexplored surface of so inviting a science . I like not the method of those excursive , intellectual pioneers , whose every hour is occu- pied with ...
... wish to concentrate the hottest rays of my genius upon the yet cold , and somewhat - unexplored surface of so inviting a science . I like not the method of those excursive , intellectual pioneers , whose every hour is occu- pied with ...
עמוד 9
... wish to model and construct anew our poetical system . I would have poets no longer to speak of the fascinating and commanding beauty and majesty of the human form or countenance . I would desire they would no longer describe , with ...
... wish to model and construct anew our poetical system . I would have poets no longer to speak of the fascinating and commanding beauty and majesty of the human form or countenance . I would desire they would no longer describe , with ...
עמוד 10
... wish , indeed , our dramatists had known some- what of the rich treasures of Phrenological science . How poetically then would they have luxuriated and wantoned amid the singularly compounded and varied developements of the human head ...
... wish , indeed , our dramatists had known some- what of the rich treasures of Phrenological science . How poetically then would they have luxuriated and wantoned amid the singularly compounded and varied developements of the human head ...
עמוד 13
... wish to play with these unscientific men of Gath like the monarch Pike , who sports long with his feeble prey , and delights to cheat it with many vain hopes of escape , before he finally darts upon it in his strength , and devours it ...
... wish to play with these unscientific men of Gath like the monarch Pike , who sports long with his feeble prey , and delights to cheat it with many vain hopes of escape , before he finally darts upon it in his strength , and devours it ...
עמוד 14
... wish to wrap myself up in the wide folds , so to speak , of my Phrenological mantle ; but I feel somewhat reluctant , at these times , to part with the warm and long - used covering of my experience . However , these seeming ...
... wish to wrap myself up in the wide folds , so to speak , of my Phrenological mantle ; but I feel somewhat reluctant , at these times , to part with the warm and long - used covering of my experience . However , these seeming ...
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עמוד 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
עמוד 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
עמוד 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
עמוד 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
עמוד 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
עמוד 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
עמוד 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
עמוד 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
עמוד 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
עמוד 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o