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... Lord Bacon to Macvey Napier , Esq . W.S. " . " On Editors , by T. T . " - " Continuation of the Life and Writings of Ensign and Ad- jutant Odoherty . ' " - " Account of the Autobiography of the late Hector Macneill , Esq . author of ...
... Lord Bacon to Macvey Napier , Esq . W.S. " . " On Editors , by T. T . " - " Continuation of the Life and Writings of Ensign and Ad- jutant Odoherty . ' " - " Account of the Autobiography of the late Hector Macneill , Esq . author of ...
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... Lord Byron in the choice of some of his scenes and subjects . But , notwith- standing the absurd eulogies of some of your reviewers , Mr Moore's Eastern Poetry has not , I perceive , taken any hold of the English mind ; and this should ...
... Lord Byron in the choice of some of his scenes and subjects . But , notwith- standing the absurd eulogies of some of your reviewers , Mr Moore's Eastern Poetry has not , I perceive , taken any hold of the English mind ; and this should ...
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... Lord Abbot , desirous of retaining him at Vaucelles , said to him , are you so anxious to carry your bones to Bru- ges , that we cannot keep you here ? " " No , truly , " replied the piper , " I am no way desirous to return to Bru- ges ...
... Lord Abbot , desirous of retaining him at Vaucelles , said to him , are you so anxious to carry your bones to Bru- ges , that we cannot keep you here ? " " No , truly , " replied the piper , " I am no way desirous to return to Bru- ges ...
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... Lord Abbot , who cer- tainly ought to know better than any bagpiper , whether a Christian could conscientiously espouse a sectary of Mahommed . The Lord Abbot was not only free from bigotry , but very well informed . He quoted ...
... Lord Abbot , who cer- tainly ought to know better than any bagpiper , whether a Christian could conscientiously espouse a sectary of Mahommed . The Lord Abbot was not only free from bigotry , but very well informed . He quoted ...
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... Lord Abbot thrice opened his mouth to address Sa- booth , and thrice burst out into laugh- ter - he recovered himself , however , but it was not without difficulty , to say , " Sir Sabaoth , after the brilliant situation you lately ...
... Lord Abbot thrice opened his mouth to address Sa- booth , and thrice burst out into laugh- ter - he recovered himself , however , but it was not without difficulty , to say , " Sir Sabaoth , after the brilliant situation you lately ...
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Page 260 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Page 260 - Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 261 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 160 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 262 - He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 260 - And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being...
Page 479 - Her lips and cheeks seemed very pale and wan, But on her forehead and within her eye Lay beauty which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness ; — on the throne She leaned. The king, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown, With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Page 217 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 261 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold.
Page 144 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..