Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 1J. Passmore Edwards, 1852 - Biography |
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... hope that in Louis Philippe they should always find a friend . Had they not his word ? Did not the Emperor , in 1815 , permit that sovereign's mother , as well as his aunt , to remain in France ? Did he not settle on the former an an ...
... hope that in Louis Philippe they should always find a friend . Had they not his word ? Did not the Emperor , in 1815 , permit that sovereign's mother , as well as his aunt , to remain in France ? Did he not settle on the former an an ...
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... hope of achieving any positive good for mankind , but solely to check the career of a conqueror who would have planted the iron heel of military despotism on the world . We can only attribute these results to the want of that moral ...
... hope of achieving any positive good for mankind , but solely to check the career of a conqueror who would have planted the iron heel of military despotism on the world . We can only attribute these results to the want of that moral ...
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... hope and comfort . Every child knew him by his paternal smile , and by his gifts of cakes and ginger - bread ; every mother showered blessings on his head for his kindness to their offspring . No man ever realised the pastoral charac ...
... hope and comfort . Every child knew him by his paternal smile , and by his gifts of cakes and ginger - bread ; every mother showered blessings on his head for his kindness to their offspring . No man ever realised the pastoral charac ...
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... hope of recruiting his health , he consented to accompany his family into Scotland . Change of scene and air rallied him , and strong hopes were entertained of his recovery . But early in September a serious change took place . The good ...
... hope of recruiting his health , he consented to accompany his family into Scotland . Change of scene and air rallied him , and strong hopes were entertained of his recovery . But early in September a serious change took place . The good ...
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... hope , no refuge for Hungarian liberties , while the sur- rounding States were in a degrading bondage ; and the only hope for Hun- gary was in the emancipation of every State under the Austrian Empire . The speech was an electric shock ...
... hope , no refuge for Hungarian liberties , while the sur- rounding States were in a degrading bondage ; and the only hope for Hun- gary was in the emancipation of every State under the Austrian Empire . The speech was an electric shock ...
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Page 103 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew. Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
Page 102 - 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 212 - 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 247 - 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 19 - His pity gave, ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproVd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 254 - O men, with sisters dear! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt!
Page 94 - Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when first The clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass. I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why: until there rose From the near school-room, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Page 8 - 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.
Page 206 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Page 102 - To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory!