Literary and Historical MiscellaniesHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 517 Seiten |
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Seite 83 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Seite 40 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile.
Seite 226 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Seite 23 - Beneath the smoking sirloin, stretch'd immense From side to side ; in which, with desperate knife, They deep incision make...
Seite 40 - Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start, But pride congeal'd the drop within his e'e. Apart he stalk'd in joyless reverie, And from his native land resolved to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea : With pleasure drugg'd, he almost longed for woe, And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below.
Seite 85 - I give and I devise (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) my lands and tenements to Ned." "Your money, sir?" — "My money, Sir, what all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
Seite 89 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Seite 396 - The public happiness is the true object of legislation, and can be secured only by the masses of mankind themselves awakening to the knowledge and the care of their own interests. Our free institutions have reversed the false and ignoble distinctions between men...
Seite 283 - That the condition of a slave is better under an arbitrary than under a free government is, I believe, supported by the history of all ages and nations.
Seite 309 - Chancellor held on his course towards that unknown part of the world, and sailed so far that he came at last to the place where he found no night at all, but a continual light and brightness of the sun shining clearly upon the huge and mighty sea.