Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2Partridge & Company, 1856 |
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... expression , to the little Richter , ' together with school ex- ercises , for thou art thyself no better . I will forget thee , for the world would certainly have forgotten thee . Thou art too young ever to have been old , and the milk ...
... expression , to the little Richter , ' together with school ex- ercises , for thou art thyself no better . I will forget thee , for the world would certainly have forgotten thee . Thou art too young ever to have been old , and the milk ...
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... of his assembled officers , " Marshal Soult , you are the ablest tactician in Europe . " " Sire , " replied the other , with a felicity of expression that would have become a courtier in- stead of a 28 THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE .
... of his assembled officers , " Marshal Soult , you are the ablest tactician in Europe . " " Sire , " replied the other , with a felicity of expression that would have become a courtier in- stead of a 28 THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE .
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... of his assembled officers , " Marshal Soult , you are the ablest tactician in Europe . " " Sire , " replied the other , with a felicity of expression In the campaigns of 1806 , and 1807 , Soult 28 THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE .
... of his assembled officers , " Marshal Soult , you are the ablest tactician in Europe . " " Sire , " replied the other , with a felicity of expression In the campaigns of 1806 , and 1807 , Soult 28 THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE .
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... expressions of approbation , and his gentle tap on the head of each ; and so anxious was he to encourage them , that , on these examination - days , he regaled them at his own house with a good dinner , and various amuse- ments ...
... expressions of approbation , and his gentle tap on the head of each ; and so anxious was he to encourage them , that , on these examination - days , he regaled them at his own house with a good dinner , and various amuse- ments ...
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... expressing his pleasure to Mr. Macready for his able management of Covent- garden Theatre ; making his palace the temporary home of Jenny Lind ; and embarking in a number of movements which he conscientiously believed to be good and ...
... expressing his pleasure to Mr. Macready for his able management of Covent- garden Theatre ; making his palace the temporary home of Jenny Lind ; and embarking in a number of movements which he conscientiously believed to be good and ...
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Page 192 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past...
Page 223 - Ben. Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot; For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot.
Page 27 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 125 - But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low...
Page 228 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!
Page 95 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 186 - But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Page 95 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.