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... course of events cannot be far distant - all parties together could scarcely supply the fifteen ministers needed to complete a cabinet , of individuals whose fitness for such a position has been tried and is admitted by the nation . Our ...
... course of events cannot be far distant - all parties together could scarcely supply the fifteen ministers needed to complete a cabinet , of individuals whose fitness for such a position has been tried and is admitted by the nation . Our ...
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... course of natural decay ; when Sir George Grey has sunk under combined illness and toil , and Sir Francis Baring and Mr. Labouchere have yielded to their wish for ease and peace — all of which events must happen soon , and may happen to ...
... course of natural decay ; when Sir George Grey has sunk under combined illness and toil , and Sir Francis Baring and Mr. Labouchere have yielded to their wish for ease and peace — all of which events must happen soon , and may happen to ...
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... course have no votes in the House of Lords ; not being elected by the people , they would of course have no votes in the House of Commons : the prerogative of neither House of Par- liament would be in the slightest degree infringed ...
... course have no votes in the House of Lords ; not being elected by the people , they would of course have no votes in the House of Commons : the prerogative of neither House of Par- liament would be in the slightest degree infringed ...
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... course , to prepare the measures of Go- vernment , it will take the initiative and drag the Government ignominiously in its train . This cannot be done without damage and without risk ; it is a dangerous thing for a nation to feel it ...
... course , to prepare the measures of Go- vernment , it will take the initiative and drag the Government ignominiously in its train . This cannot be done without damage and without risk ; it is a dangerous thing for a nation to feel it ...
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... for the first time clearly understood when the initial letters of their names are printed in capitals ? It is for the purpose , of VOL . XVII . NO . XXXIII . Ꭰ course , of continually referring our thoughts and his own.
... for the first time clearly understood when the initial letters of their names are printed in capitals ? It is for the purpose , of VOL . XVII . NO . XXXIII . Ꭰ course , of continually referring our thoughts and his own.
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Página 398 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 405 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore, — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never — nevermore.
Página 397 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 404 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Página 397 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 405 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Página 398 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 406 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 404 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Página 388 - Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her, When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.