Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 92W. Blackwood, 1862 - England |
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... army can be regarded as efficient . Again , Mr Pitt placed at the head of this army the Duke of York - a brave prince , doubtless , and not without ability of a cer- tain order ; but young , destitute of experience , and otherwise un ...
... army can be regarded as efficient . Again , Mr Pitt placed at the head of this army the Duke of York - a brave prince , doubtless , and not without ability of a cer- tain order ; but young , destitute of experience , and otherwise un ...
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... army in the Netherlands resembled , in its helpless lack of everything necessary to render troops effective , the 10,000 fine fel- lows whom Lord Aberdeen de- spatched , with sixty rounds of ball cartridge per man in their pouches , to ...
... army in the Netherlands resembled , in its helpless lack of everything necessary to render troops effective , the 10,000 fine fel- lows whom Lord Aberdeen de- spatched , with sixty rounds of ball cartridge per man in their pouches , to ...
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... army ; and then , and not till then , he must call in professional experi- ence to help him in estimating and equipping his means . Lord Liver- pool did this . He selected the Pen- insula as his battle - field . Had he gone farther ...
... army ; and then , and not till then , he must call in professional experi- ence to help him in estimating and equipping his means . Lord Liver- pool did this . He selected the Pen- insula as his battle - field . Had he gone farther ...
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... army , in which case England must have become a pro- vince of France , and the pleasant book now before us never could have seen the light ; but we hold it to be next to an impossibility for any British government systemati- cally to ...
... army , in which case England must have become a pro- vince of France , and the pleasant book now before us never could have seen the light ; but we hold it to be next to an impossibility for any British government systemati- cally to ...
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... Army in the Red Sea , ' may be quoted as an example of the historic style and type of Greece and Egypt , in- fused with naturalistic truth and vigour by close study of the living model . Mr Story , in his noble figure'Sibilla Libica ...
... Army in the Red Sea , ' may be quoted as an example of the historic style and type of Greece and Egypt , in- fused with naturalistic truth and vigour by close study of the living model . Mr Story , in his noble figure'Sibilla Libica ...
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Page 586 - To veer, how vain ! On, onward strain, Brave barks! In light, in darkness too, Through winds and tides one compass guides — To that, and your own selves, be true.
Page 10 - ... Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Page 101 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 576 - How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. So constant as my heart would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust.
Page 94 - My father held his hand upon his face ; I, blinded with my tears, " Still strove to speak : my voice was thick with sighs As in a dream. Dimly I could descry The stern black-bearded kings with wolfish eyes, Waiting to see me die. " The high masts flicker'd as they lay afloat ; The crowds, the temples, waver'd, and the shore ; The bright death quiver'd at the victim's throat ; Touch'd; and I knew no more.
Page 353 - It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish- white ; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support and set off these warm colours ; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
Page 586 - E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of those whom, year by year unchanged, Brief absence joined anew to feel, Astounded, soul from soul estranged. At dead of night their sails were filled...
Page 352 - The likeness of a portrait, as I have formerly observed, consists more in preserving the general effect of the countenance, than in the most minute finishing of the features, or any of the particular parts.
Page 80 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Page 69 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...