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... matter how produced . I will show you an ode you have never seen , that I consider little inferior to the best which the present prolific age has brought forth . ' With this he left the table , almost before the cloth was removed , and ...
... matter how produced . I will show you an ode you have never seen , that I consider little inferior to the best which the present prolific age has brought forth . ' With this he left the table , almost before the cloth was removed , and ...
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... matters not ; whatever his motive was for scorning the decrees of power , or the sentiments of illiberality , he had none to induce him to resort to subterfuge or concealment . Whether right or wrong , he took his stand openly in the ...
... matters not ; whatever his motive was for scorning the decrees of power , or the sentiments of illiberality , he had none to induce him to resort to subterfuge or concealment . Whether right or wrong , he took his stand openly in the ...
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... matter of regret if a work , though so small , yet bearing the impress of immortality , should not go down to future times with all the excellence which the genius of the author conferred on it . When volumes of verses that enjoy the ...
... matter of regret if a work , though so small , yet bearing the impress of immortality , should not go down to future times with all the excellence which the genius of the author conferred on it . When volumes of verses that enjoy the ...
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... matter and expression of his arguments , that he appeared rather to recite the text of some established book , than to put together , by a sudden effort , the materials of knowledge acquired from various sources ; so admirably did his ...
... matter and expression of his arguments , that he appeared rather to recite the text of some established book , than to put together , by a sudden effort , the materials of knowledge acquired from various sources ; so admirably did his ...
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... matter cannot always atone . ROMILLY did not allow his statements to take the warm complexion of his feelings ; he spoke the language of unimpassioned wisdom , while his heart was full of the emotions of humanity . Oratory is an art ...
... matter cannot always atone . ROMILLY did not allow his statements to take the warm complexion of his feelings ; he spoke the language of unimpassioned wisdom , while his heart was full of the emotions of humanity . Oratory is an art ...
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Page 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Page xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Page 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Page xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Page 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Page 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...