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Page 100
... Spartan ambassadors to him to sue for peace . The latter were received in the most friendly manner by the royal warrior , who , as a token of his peaceable intentions , pro- mised to send his sons to Sparta to be instructed in the ...
... Spartan ambassadors to him to sue for peace . The latter were received in the most friendly manner by the royal warrior , who , as a token of his peaceable intentions , pro- mised to send his sons to Sparta to be instructed in the ...
Page 101
... Spartans I have practised a Spartan stratagem . ' This was one of the richest treats that I had enjoyed for some time . I still fancy I see the great Pyrrhus in the attitude of the conqueror , with his fiery eye riveted on the Spartan ...
... Spartans I have practised a Spartan stratagem . ' This was one of the richest treats that I had enjoyed for some time . I still fancy I see the great Pyrrhus in the attitude of the conqueror , with his fiery eye riveted on the Spartan ...
Page 102
... Spartan tyranny , Spartan injustice , Spartan cruelty , Spartan avarice , and Spar- tan bad faith was to be ascribed the humi- liating position in which Sparta was placed ? And I am pretty certain that you will agree with me on this ...
... Spartan tyranny , Spartan injustice , Spartan cruelty , Spartan avarice , and Spar- tan bad faith was to be ascribed the humi- liating position in which Sparta was placed ? And I am pretty certain that you will agree with me on this ...
Page 103
... Sparta to one cause , and some to another , scarcely a dozen of them at first agreeing in opinion on the subject ... Spartan request ; but when Envy pronounced the name of Tyrtæus , the build- ing shook with the acclamations of the ...
... Sparta to one cause , and some to another , scarcely a dozen of them at first agreeing in opinion on the subject ... Spartan request ; but when Envy pronounced the name of Tyrtæus , the build- ing shook with the acclamations of the ...
Page 104
... Spartan fire had expired . The soldiers hav- ing expressed themselves in no very mea- sured terms respecting their sovereigns and the other rulers who had been instrumental in causing the Messenian revolt , —the kings pressed Tyrtæus to ...
... Spartan fire had expired . The soldiers hav- ing expressed themselves in no very mea- sured terms respecting their sovereigns and the other rulers who had been instrumental in causing the Messenian revolt , —the kings pressed Tyrtæus to ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - 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 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...