The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Zväzok 1

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J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1785
 

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Strana 334 - His horse who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt when he set out, Of running such a rig.
Strana 313 - His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Strana 334 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been.
Strana 334 - Where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad, The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Strana 282 - I had fixed a resolution, in the beginning of my life, always to leave the public to judge between my adversaries and me, without making any reply, I must adhere inviolably to this resolution, otherways my silence on any future occasion would be construed an inability to answer, and would be matter of triumph against me.
Strana 358 - ... every principle of humanity in the heart of Chaubert, and made him for the greatest part of his life the declared enemy of human nature.
Strana 13 - During the printing of his Dictionary, the " Ramblers " came out periodically ; for he could do more than one thing at a time. He declared that he wrote them by way of relief from his application to his Dictionary, and for the reward. He has told this writer, that he had no expectation they would have met with so much success, and been so much read and admired.
Strana 526 - ... duty to continue so long only as the internal consumption shall be charged with the duty or duties to balance which...
Strana 431 - This husband of yours would fain have " palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, " and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I
Strana 354 - As soon as he has had time to examine the component parts of this circle into which he...

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