Choice Literature, Volume 1J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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Ameer appears Assyrian become Bernardo Tasso called century character classes competition Count Fersen court doubt Duke England English evil existence eyes fact father favour Ferrara France give Government Greece Greek hand head Hipparchus honour human hundred hypnotism India industry influence interest kind King labour lady land language learned Leicester House less letters living London look Lord Lord Lytton Lord Salisbury Louis Blanc Marie Antoinette means ment mind modern moral nation nature never object observed once passed persons Peshawur Phoenician poet political population present probably produce Queen question remarkable Russia seems Shalmaneser II Shere Ali social society Sydney Dobell Tasso things thought tion Torquato Torquato Tasso Transvaal true truth whole words writing young
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Página 386 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Página 16 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Página 466 - Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the King of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Página 530 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Página 466 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him ; and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
Página 434 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Página 491 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Página 657 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 389 - It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few, Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them and slew, That ever upon the topmost roof our banner in India blew. Men will forget what we suffer and not what we do. We can fight! But to be soldier all day and be sentinel all thro' the night — Ever the mine and assault, our sallies, their lying alarms.
Página 159 - Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell.