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... Lords and Commons , hear my Delphic voice , The glorious theme will sanctify my choice , As Sybarites disturb not your repose , Nor blame like them the harshness of a Rose . * It is more polite to call the Muse her . DEDICATION CONTENTS ...
... Lords and Commons , hear my Delphic voice , The glorious theme will sanctify my choice , As Sybarites disturb not your repose , Nor blame like them the harshness of a Rose . * It is more polite to call the Muse her . DEDICATION CONTENTS ...
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... sovereign holds most marked supremacy , each British subject is lord of England's destiny , and the architect of her fortune . 1 DEDICATION CHAPTER I RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY CHAPTER I RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY.
... sovereign holds most marked supremacy , each British subject is lord of England's destiny , and the architect of her fortune . 1 DEDICATION CHAPTER I RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY CHAPTER I RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY.
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... Lord 420 ) the edge of the sword could have established Pharamond on his throne ; his politics awed , subdued , and conquered ; for those laws which to us seem strange and barbarous , appeared in a totally different light to the ...
... Lord 420 ) the edge of the sword could have established Pharamond on his throne ; his politics awed , subdued , and conquered ; for those laws which to us seem strange and barbarous , appeared in a totally different light to the ...
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... lords of the creation the active conjugation of the word Fame , upon her reign the glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot positively grasp at ...
... lords of the creation the active conjugation of the word Fame , upon her reign the glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot positively grasp at ...
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... Lords abolished , there would be Lords of the government council , not Lords by names , not Tories by surname perhaps , but man over man has been the law of Nature , ever since the first murderer wished to get rid of his brother . Peter ...
... Lords abolished , there would be Lords of the government council , not Lords by names , not Tories by surname perhaps , but man over man has been the law of Nature , ever since the first murderer wished to get rid of his brother . Peter ...
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Page 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.