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Page 129
You are sent for , sir , " resumed Mrs . Parkins , after a short pause , “ to attend a
lady who now sleeps there ” - pointing to the bed on the opposite side of the room
_ " and may God in his goodness grant her to survive her coming illness ...
You are sent for , sir , " resumed Mrs . Parkins , after a short pause , “ to attend a
lady who now sleeps there ” - pointing to the bed on the opposite side of the room
_ " and may God in his goodness grant her to survive her coming illness ...
Page 138
A Spenser fell at the battle of Bosworth ; and , coming down to the days of
Charles the First , his great - grandfather not only distinguished himself amongst
those valiant gentlemen who espoused the royal cause ( and better known as the
...
A Spenser fell at the battle of Bosworth ; and , coming down to the days of
Charles the First , his great - grandfather not only distinguished himself amongst
those valiant gentlemen who espoused the royal cause ( and better known as the
...
Page 156
Hark , the music rises sweetly , Up the coming days it swells , For the pulse of
hope beats fleetly On the future ' s golden bells ; Light is filt ' ring through its
curtain , And apart the cloud - drifts roll : With a joy profound and certain , Gazes
on the ...
Hark , the music rises sweetly , Up the coming days it swells , For the pulse of
hope beats fleetly On the future ' s golden bells ; Light is filt ' ring through its
curtain , And apart the cloud - drifts roll : With a joy profound and certain , Gazes
on the ...
Page 176
We had begun to fancy that the President ' s carriage must have broken down or
been upset , or that he was not coming at all , when a gun was heard , and then
another , followed by such a flashing , and blazing , and banging of artillery , and
...
We had begun to fancy that the President ' s carriage must have broken down or
been upset , or that he was not coming at all , when a gun was heard , and then
another , followed by such a flashing , and blazing , and banging of artillery , and
...
Page 178
So thought the patriotic official , as he observed , in an obsequious tone , “ I have
been deputed , mon prince , by monsieur the mayor , who deeply regrets that his
multifarious duties prevent him from coming in person to conduct you to the ...
So thought the patriotic official , as he observed , in an obsequious tone , “ I have
been deputed , mon prince , by monsieur the mayor , who deeply regrets that his
multifarious duties prevent him from coming in person to conduct you to the ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...