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... honour , every day's experience must convince us that the influence of the Aristocracy is not less salutary in ... honours and estates in particular families . It was seemingly an institution of Providence , destined to secure the ...
... honour , every day's experience must convince us that the influence of the Aristocracy is not less salutary in ... honours and estates in particular families . It was seemingly an institution of Providence , destined to secure the ...
Page 252
... honour most , as Wordsworth always does , " the Aristocracy of Nature , " which you , presumptuous simpleton , must needs despise ; and would - if you knew how to set about it - perhaps eke- Reform ! Now we shall shut and seal your ...
... honour most , as Wordsworth always does , " the Aristocracy of Nature , " which you , presumptuous simpleton , must needs despise ; and would - if you knew how to set about it - perhaps eke- Reform ! Now we shall shut and seal your ...
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... honours of many a time - honour'd line ; When your rights are invaded , to stand tamely by , - And , in short , to consent just " to lie down and die , - You doubtless must lend a considerate ear To the Schoolmaster's argument ...
... honours of many a time - honour'd line ; When your rights are invaded , to stand tamely by , - And , in short , to consent just " to lie down and die , - You doubtless must lend a considerate ear To the Schoolmaster's argument ...
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... honour is his meed , The mighty king , that with the mace of Jove Th ' avenger , wherewith he subdues the earth , Hath levell'd with the dust the towers of Troy ; Their altars are o'erturn'd , their sacred shrines , And all the race ...
... honour is his meed , The mighty king , that with the mace of Jove Th ' avenger , wherewith he subdues the earth , Hath levell'd with the dust the towers of Troy ; Their altars are o'erturn'd , their sacred shrines , And all the race ...
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... honour the king ! -quand même . TICKLER . Quand même ! Quand même ! Quand même ! Ah ! North , " Hence spring these tears - this Ilium of our foes : Cold wax his friends , whose faith is in his woes ! " So says Dryden - and such , I fear ...
... honour the king ! -quand même . TICKLER . Quand même ! Quand même ! Quand même ! Ah ! North , " Hence spring these tears - this Ilium of our foes : Cold wax his friends , whose faith is in his woes ! " So says Dryden - and such , I fear ...
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Page 564 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 511 - 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.
Page 510 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 86 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 361 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 361 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 39 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 336 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 335 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Page 564 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.