Arliss's Literary collectionsJ. Arliss, 1825 - 358 pages |
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... king's greatness , and his council's goodness ; his subject's peace and his kingdom's praise ; she is the life , learning , and the light of the law ; the honour of trade , and the grace of labour ; she hath a pure eye , a plain hand ...
... king's greatness , and his council's goodness ; his subject's peace and his kingdom's praise ; she is the life , learning , and the light of the law ; the honour of trade , and the grace of labour ; she hath a pure eye , a plain hand ...
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... king , Offa , dates one of his charters to the monks of Worcester from his palace here , in the year 781 ; and several of his successors , in the next century , date various charters from this same place . At this time an ex- tensive ...
... king , Offa , dates one of his charters to the monks of Worcester from his palace here , in the year 781 ; and several of his successors , in the next century , date various charters from this same place . At this time an ex- tensive ...
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... king's minister for Scotland , so far as to be employed to arrange the revenue accounts , which were in great disor- der before the union of the two kingdoms . In order to remedy the want of a circulating medium in Scotland , he ...
... king's minister for Scotland , so far as to be employed to arrange the revenue accounts , which were in great disor- der before the union of the two kingdoms . In order to remedy the want of a circulating medium in Scotland , he ...
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... kings of Latium , was buried in a thick wood , on the top of a high mountain : Rousseau was buried in the island of Poplars , in the gardens of Ermenonville : Horne Took cwas buried in his own gar- den and Napoleon Bonaparte often ...
... kings of Latium , was buried in a thick wood , on the top of a high mountain : Rousseau was buried in the island of Poplars , in the gardens of Ermenonville : Horne Took cwas buried in his own gar- den and Napoleon Bonaparte often ...
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... king of Minomotopa sneezes , those who are near him salute him in so loud a tone , that the persons in the anti - chamber hearing it , join in the acclamation , In the adjoining a- partments they do the same , till the noise reaches the ...
... king of Minomotopa sneezes , those who are near him salute him in so loud a tone , that the persons in the anti - chamber hearing it , join in the acclamation , In the adjoining a- partments they do the same , till the noise reaches the ...
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Page 160 - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain : My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire...
Page 345 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 159 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 159 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 159 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. 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 194 - ASK me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose, For in your beauty's orient deep . These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For, in pure love, heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 159 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.
Page 76 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed!
Page 177 - Me wrangling courts, and stubborn law, To smoke, and crowds, and cities draw: There selfish faction rules the day, And pride and avarice throng the way; Diseases taint the murky air, And midnight conflagrations glare; Loose Revelry, and Riot bold, In frighted streets their orgies hold ; Or, where in silence all is drowned, Fell Murder walks his lonely round ; No room for peace, no room for you, Adieu, celestial Nymph, adieu!
Page 76 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...