The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Band 51819 |
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... character is better known than its vindictiveness . No person ever cursed the Seely Court and prospered . Their power was believed to be dreadful . Ruin overtook the worldly circumstances of the hapless wight who , in an evil hour ...
... character is better known than its vindictiveness . No person ever cursed the Seely Court and prospered . Their power was believed to be dreadful . Ruin overtook the worldly circumstances of the hapless wight who , in an evil hour ...
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... character of Burns , whom he de- scribed as the poetical representative of his own country in the assembly of nations . It was a mistake to suppose Burns was an uneducated man - he had read more and better books than Homer . No Scots ...
... character of Burns , whom he de- scribed as the poetical representative of his own country in the assembly of nations . It was a mistake to suppose Burns was an uneducated man - he had read more and better books than Homer . No Scots ...
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... character I see nothing enthusias- tic . He was a man of quick and live- ly feeling , and this disposition remain- ed with him , as was natural ; and his feelings were still ardent , though di- rected to other and better objects than He ...
... character I see nothing enthusias- tic . He was a man of quick and live- ly feeling , and this disposition remain- ed with him , as was natural ; and his feelings were still ardent , though di- rected to other and better objects than He ...
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... character , but as possessing those powers of mind which exert a fatal or beneficial influence on the fate of those subordinate agents who happen to be connected with them . The operation of the passions and feelings which be- long to ...
... character , but as possessing those powers of mind which exert a fatal or beneficial influence on the fate of those subordinate agents who happen to be connected with them . The operation of the passions and feelings which be- long to ...
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... character breaks forth in all the beauty of benevolence . He luxuriates in strewing lights of kindness and intelligence from his full stores , even over the inferior crea- tion , when they casually appear among his characters . The ...
... character breaks forth in all the beauty of benevolence . He luxuriates in strewing lights of kindness and intelligence from his full stores , even over the inferior crea- tion , when they casually appear among his characters . The ...
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Seite 322 - Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it. Some were seen to wink at each other and put their tongues in their cheeks ; and the self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth and shook his head, upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage. It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old Peter...
Seite 318 - ... of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his shoulder a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with the load.
Seite 320 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward.
Seite 322 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
Seite 316 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.
Seite 101 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Seite 316 - ... about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray or get among...
Seite 319 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Seite 320 - At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest.
Seite 320 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.