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Page 124 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 87 - old man eloquent," the puissant Earl of Palmerston : "What though the land run red with blood: what though the lurid flashes Of cannon light at dead of night a mournful heap of ashes Where many an ancient mansion stood? what though the robber pillages The sacred home, the house of God, in twice a hundred villages ? "What though a fiendish, nameless wrong, that makes revenge a duty Is daily done" (O Lord, how long?) "to tenderness and beauty?
Page 191 - When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, When airs from paradise refresh my brow, The earth in darkness lies. In a purer clime, My being fills with rapture — waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit — strains sublime Break over me unsought. Give me now my lyre ! I feel the stirrings of a gift divine ; Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
Page 87 - But for the cause in which he fell we cannot lift a finger, 'Tis idle on the question any longer here to linger; 'Tis true the South has freely bled, her sorrows are Homeric, oh! Her case is like to his of old who journeyed unto Jericho. "The thieves have stripped and bruised, although as yet they have not bound her, We'd like to see her slay 'em all to right and left around her; We shouldn't cry in parliament if Lee should cross the Raritan, But England never yet was known to play the Good Samaritan.
Page 87 - Tis no concern at all of ours' (sensation in the galleries.). "So shall our 'merry England' thrive 0n trans-Atlantic troubles, While India, on her distant plains, her crop of cotton doubles; And just so long as North or South shall show the least vitality, We cannot swerve, we must preserve our rigorous neutrality.
Page 185 - ... any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — champagne, port, and beer forbidden. Tea (5 to 6 pm). Two or three ounces of fruit, a rusk or two, and a cup of tea without milk or sugar. Supper (9 pm). Three or four ounces of meat or fish, similar to dinner, with a glass or two of claret.
Page 87 - ALL ye who with credulity the whispers hear of fancy, Or yet pursue with eagerness Hope's wild extravagancy, Who dream that England soon will drop her long miscalled Neutrality And give us, with a hearty shake, the hand of Nationality, Read, as we give, with little fault of statement or omission, The next debate in Parliament on Southern Recognition; They're all so much alike, indeed, that one can write it off, I see, As truly as the Times report without the gift of prophecy.
Page 122 - But, in the meanwhile, if any form of the doctrine of progressive development is correct, we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of Man.
Page 185 - Breakfast at 9 am ; five to six ounces of either beef, mutton, kidneys, broiled fish, bacon, or cold meat of any kind, except pork or veal ;.a large cup of tea or coffee (without milk or sugar), a little biscuit, or one ounce of dry toast ; making together six ounces of solids and nine of liquids.
Page 86 - Piersfleld ridge richly wooded ; the left, is a belt of rocks, over which appear the Severn, and the fine shores between Thornbury and Bristol, rising behind each other in admirable swells, which unite in most graceful curves. The first foreground is to the eye, a view from the clouds upon earth, and the rich contrast of green meadows to wild forest scenery ; the farm of Lancaut clasped in the arms of the winding river, backed by hanging wood and rock. Thus there is a bay of verdure, walled in by...