The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... fact , nothing else than the last Degerando , Des Signes et de l'Art de Penser , c . v . - Institution du Langage.— A most ingenious and eloquent chapter on the Formation of Language . retiring footsteps of the language of signs . They ...
... fact , nothing else than the last Degerando , Des Signes et de l'Art de Penser , c . v . - Institution du Langage.— A most ingenious and eloquent chapter on the Formation of Language . retiring footsteps of the language of signs . They ...
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... fact , that this language of gesticulation was more easily adopted , more commonly used , and retained for a longer time by them , than by their southern neigh- bours . This early prevalence of me- taphor will be found in the first poet ...
... fact , that this language of gesticulation was more easily adopted , more commonly used , and retained for a longer time by them , than by their southern neigh- bours . This early prevalence of me- taphor will be found in the first poet ...
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... facts are sufficient to shew , that the public attention had been awakened to the importance of education , and that ... fact in the history of our national literature . Formerly no instance of this kind had occurred . On the con- trary ...
... facts are sufficient to shew , that the public attention had been awakened to the importance of education , and that ... fact in the history of our national literature . Formerly no instance of this kind had occurred . On the con- trary ...
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... fact has not been distinctly ascer- tained . It is a mistake to suppose that the parochial schools of Scotland owed their origin to Parliamentary enact- ments . The persuasions of the mini- sters , and the authority of the church courts ...
... fact has not been distinctly ascer- tained . It is a mistake to suppose that the parochial schools of Scotland owed their origin to Parliamentary enact- ments . The persuasions of the mini- sters , and the authority of the church courts ...
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... facts which have been pointed out in the course of this brief review , will , it is hoped , assist the reader in forming an idea of the state of our national literature at this period . They may perhaps con- vince him , that Scotland ...
... facts which have been pointed out in the course of this brief review , will , it is hoped , assist the reader in forming an idea of the state of our national literature at this period . They may perhaps con- vince him , that Scotland ...
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Página 309 - Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme...
Página 309 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Página 536 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert ; go not forth : behold, He is in the secret chambers ; believe it not.
Página 308 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Página 309 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 309 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night...
Página 309 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Página 308 - Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Página 308 - Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
Página 308 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.