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... lords , I will not , join in congratu- lation on misfortune and disgrace . This , my lords , is a perilous and tremendous moment ; it is not a time for adulation ; the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful ...
... lords , I will not , join in congratu- lation on misfortune and disgrace . This , my lords , is a perilous and tremendous moment ; it is not a time for adulation ; the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful ...
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... lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst ; but we know that in three ... Lord Suffolk , ' to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands . 38 THE HISTORICAL AND.
... lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst ; but we know that in three ... Lord Suffolk , ' to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands . 38 THE HISTORICAL AND.
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... lords , we are called upon as members of this house , as men , as Christians , to protest against such horrible barbarity ! That God and nature have put into our hands ! What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may entertain I know ...
... lords , we are called upon as members of this house , as men , as Christians , to protest against such horrible barbarity ! That God and nature have put into our hands ! What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may entertain I know ...
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... lords , I am old and weak , and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less . I could not have slept this night in my bed , nor even reposed my head upon my pillow , without giving ...
... lords , I am old and weak , and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less . I could not have slept this night in my bed , nor even reposed my head upon my pillow , without giving ...
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... lord mayor and court of aldermen . So the king wrote by him to them to consult speedily how the poor should be relieved . They considered there were three sorts of poor ; such as were so by natural infirmity or folly , as impotent ...
... lord mayor and court of aldermen . So the king wrote by him to them to consult speedily how the poor should be relieved . They considered there were three sorts of poor ; such as were so by natural infirmity or folly , as impotent ...
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Page 9 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 148 - Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!' 'O father! I see a gleaming light, O say, what may it be?' But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 22 - And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 110 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 153 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 152 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — • ' Now tread we a measure !
Page 149 - The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Page 137 - None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine...
Page 111 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 151 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.