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Pagina xviii
... affection , will you turn to them the shameful parts of the constitution ? -Fox's SPEECH . These two parts , the one commencing with is not the falsehood - the other , will you turn , call upon us to consider whether is and will be ...
... affection , will you turn to them the shameful parts of the constitution ? -Fox's SPEECH . These two parts , the one commencing with is not the falsehood - the other , will you turn , call upon us to consider whether is and will be ...
Pagina xxxix
... affection for me , that prompted you to give me up the hopes , the applauses , the honours , which attended that course I then advised , but the superior force of truth , and your utter inability to point out any more eligible course ...
... affection for me , that prompted you to give me up the hopes , the applauses , the honours , which attended that course I then advised , but the superior force of truth , and your utter inability to point out any more eligible course ...
Pagina 66
... affections , with scenes and persons that are themselves both lovely and ridicu- lous . This gift he shares with his illustrious coun- tryman , Burns - as he does many of the other qua- lities we have mentioned with another living poet ...
... affections , with scenes and persons that are themselves both lovely and ridicu- lous . This gift he shares with his illustrious coun- tryman , Burns - as he does many of the other qua- lities we have mentioned with another living poet ...
Pagina 67
... affections not only as strong , but often as delicate was those whose language is smoother and with a view of humour , a force of sagacity , and very frequently an elevation of fancy , as high and as na- tural as can be met with among ...
... affections not only as strong , but often as delicate was those whose language is smoother and with a view of humour , a force of sagacity , and very frequently an elevation of fancy , as high and as na- tural as can be met with among ...
Pagina 68
... affection . All this the Colonists have discovered ; and we feel assured , that they will never suffer religious instruction to be unreservedly given to the slaves . 3 --- Edinburgh Review ) ! What inflection at instruction , know ...
... affection . All this the Colonists have discovered ; and we feel assured , that they will never suffer religious instruction to be unreservedly given to the slaves . 3 --- Edinburgh Review ) ! What inflection at instruction , know ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pagina 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Pagina 245 - 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.
Pagina 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Pagina 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Pagina 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pagina 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Pagina 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Pagina 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Pagina 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...