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Página 434 - Bequeath'd, a heritage of heart and hand, And proud distinction from each other land, Whose sons must bow them at a monarch's motion, As if his senseless sceptre were a wand Full of the magic of exploded science, — Still one great clime, in full and free defiance, Yet rears her crest, unconquer'd and sublime, Above the far Atlantic...
Página 44 - ... who will not grieve that such a race has been shortened, though not always keeping the straight path, such a light extinguished, though sometimes flaming to dazzle and to bewilder ? One word on this ungrateful subject ere we quit it for ever.
Página 373 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste i£ not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste.
Página 266 - The mellow Autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game ; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket : — lynx-like is his aim, Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. Ah, nutbrown Partridges ! Ah, brilliant Pheasants ! And ah, ye Poachers ! — 'Tis no sport for peasants.
Página 140 - Suddenly the appalling and murderous voice of an angry, blood-thirsty lion burst upon my ear within a few yards of us, followed by the shrieking of the Hottentots. Again and again the murderous roar of attack was repeated. We heard John and Ruyter shriek,
Página 88 - Of the pleas'd people rend the vaulted skies. Then Mnestheus to the head his arrow drove, With lifted eyes, and took his aim above, But made a glancing shot, and...
Página 354 - Ah ! your Saints have cruel hearts ! Sternly from his bed he starts. And, with rude, repulsive shock, Hurls her from the beetling rock. Glendalough ! thy gloomy wave Soon was gentle Kathleen's grave ! Soon the Saint (yet ah ! too late) Felt her love, and mourn'd her fate. When he said,
Página 43 - Mr. Fowler's bg John Dory, four years old, 7st. (Charlton) . . . . 4 Even on The Cocktail, 2 to 1 against Brown Fly, 3 to 1 against Maid of Lyme, and 7 to 2 against John Dory. Won by a length, a head between the second and third. The Newton Stakes, a handicap of 5 sovs.
Página 78 - In letter and spirit this is pat to our purpose. Examine Eclipse's company, and you may form a fair estimate of his quality. Neither the portrait of Eclipse hy Sartorius, nor that by Stubbs, conveys to the eye the idea of an animal of great physical powers.
Página 140 - ... under cover of the bank. We drove the cattle out of the kraal, and then proceeded to inspect the scene of the night's awful tragedy.

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