A Month in EnglandRedfield, 1853 - 243 páginas |
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... moral zest indicative of its perennial quality . I looked into the faces of the crowd of blue - coated urchins , then listening to " grace after meat , " and would fain have asked if there were yet among them . a young stork like him ...
... moral zest indicative of its perennial quality . I looked into the faces of the crowd of blue - coated urchins , then listening to " grace after meat , " and would fain have asked if there were yet among them . a young stork like him ...
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... moral sen- sibility , born of the responsibility incident to such a heritage , in such a world , would pervade their faces . In one point of view , the public spirit essen- tial to character in a position like this , has been nobly ...
... moral sen- sibility , born of the responsibility incident to such a heritage , in such a world , would pervade their faces . In one point of view , the public spirit essen- tial to character in a position like this , has been nobly ...
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... moral picturesqueness derived from the idea of original character . What varied phases of historical men does the name re- vive : here stern Cromwell kept his headquarters , elegant Gibbon was born , and noble Pitt expired . How ...
... moral picturesqueness derived from the idea of original character . What varied phases of historical men does the name re- vive : here stern Cromwell kept his headquarters , elegant Gibbon was born , and noble Pitt expired . How ...
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... moral courage that insisted on a marriage of affection , and the beautiful union and simple tastes consequent thereon , combined with her early death , to sanctify her name to the common heart , which always rejoices to behold the human ...
... moral courage that insisted on a marriage of affection , and the beautiful union and simple tastes consequent thereon , combined with her early death , to sanctify her name to the common heart , which always rejoices to behold the human ...
Página 112
... moral significance of the closing scenes transferred , in immortal characters , to the poet's record . Nor were the mere facts of departed time thus impressively rendered ; dark superstitions and radiant fancies by him gifted with a ...
... moral significance of the closing scenes transferred , in immortal characters , to the poet's record . Nor were the mere facts of departed time thus impressively rendered ; dark superstitions and radiant fancies by him gifted with a ...
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Página 216 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 153 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Página 26 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 109 - Thy Forests, Windsor! and thy green Retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's Seats, Invite my Lays. Be present, Sylvan Maids! Unlock your Springs, and open all your Shades.
Página 109 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Página 112 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Página 110 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to...
Página 205 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Página 217 - Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Página 48 - I never shall forget the tremulous earnestness with which he pronounced the awful petition in the Litany : — "In the hour of death, and at the day of judgment, good Lord deliver us.