The Irish Metropolitan Magazine. ..., Volume 3Edward J. Milliken, 15, College-green., 1858 - English literature |
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... death - bolts deadliest the thinned lines along , Even where the thickest of war's tempest lower'd ; They reached no nobler breast than thine , young gallant HOWARD ! " -Childe Harold , 3rd canto . These lines were addressed to the ...
... death - bolts deadliest the thinned lines along , Even where the thickest of war's tempest lower'd ; They reached no nobler breast than thine , young gallant HOWARD ! " -Childe Harold , 3rd canto . These lines were addressed to the ...
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... death of the late king , and kept his son in banishment . If the father's crimes cry for vengeance , shall the son have them passed over in silence ? Mercy in the present state of affairs is unreasonable ; we may shed that blood which ...
... death of the late king , and kept his son in banishment . If the father's crimes cry for vengeance , shall the son have them passed over in silence ? Mercy in the present state of affairs is unreasonable ; we may shed that blood which ...
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... . And then I tremble at the change , The only change I see , For the shadow of the coming grief Falls cold as death on me . ROBERT HANNAY . t A GLIMPSE INTO THE GLACIER WORLD . In that red 28 MODERN BIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHERS .
... . And then I tremble at the change , The only change I see , For the shadow of the coming grief Falls cold as death on me . ROBERT HANNAY . t A GLIMPSE INTO THE GLACIER WORLD . In that red 28 MODERN BIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHERS .
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... Death - though it was but a dead chamois . It had evidently been dead for a considerable time , for months cer- tainly - perhaps for years ; but ice is a careful preserver of whatever is entrusted to its care , and the chamois before us ...
... Death - though it was but a dead chamois . It had evidently been dead for a considerable time , for months cer- tainly - perhaps for years ; but ice is a careful preserver of whatever is entrusted to its care , and the chamois before us ...
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... death , this bird was made a symbol of Apollo ; and Orpheus , the renowned musician , was fabled to have been transformed into a swan , when he was slain by the furious Bacchantes . The wild swan of the north is said to have a musical ...
... death , this bird was made a symbol of Apollo ; and Orpheus , the renowned musician , was fabled to have been transformed into a swan , when he was slain by the furious Bacchantes . The wild swan of the north is said to have a musical ...
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Page 177 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 177 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
Page 567 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 507 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 644 - The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade.
Page 269 - Yet should some neighbour feel a pain Just in the parts where I complain, How many a message would he send ? What hearty prayers that I should mend?
Page 246 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 563 - I am convinced, by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever anything so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute ; variety without end, and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
Page 569 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 52 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.