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... thought , and opened new pros- pects to ambition . He could not but feel a deep interest in passing events ; he did not hesitate as to the part he should act , as the bias of his youth was in favour of liberty . At that interesting ...
... thought , and opened new pros- pects to ambition . He could not but feel a deep interest in passing events ; he did not hesitate as to the part he should act , as the bias of his youth was in favour of liberty . At that interesting ...
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... thought necessary to give this rapid sketch , that the distinctive character and merits of this author might be justly estimated . Mr. Scott was first known to the public as the editor of some lyric pieces on border chivalry , among ...
... thought necessary to give this rapid sketch , that the distinctive character and merits of this author might be justly estimated . Mr. Scott was first known to the public as the editor of some lyric pieces on border chivalry , among ...
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... thought , To gild the ruin she has wrought ; For , like the bat of Indian brakes , Her pinion fans the wound she ... thoughts to memory dear , For , while a softer strain I tried , $ They hid my blush , and calmed my fear . Then did I ...
... thought , To gild the ruin she has wrought ; For , like the bat of Indian brakes , Her pinion fans the wound she ... thoughts to memory dear , For , while a softer strain I tried , $ They hid my blush , and calmed my fear . Then did I ...
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... thought , Thy verse with laurels would be bought , And poor Matilda , landless now , Has not a garland for thy brow . True , I must leave sweet Rokeby's glades , Nor wander more in Greta's shades , But sure , no rigid jailor , thou Wilt ...
... thought , Thy verse with laurels would be bought , And poor Matilda , landless now , Has not a garland for thy brow . True , I must leave sweet Rokeby's glades , Nor wander more in Greta's shades , But sure , no rigid jailor , thou Wilt ...
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... . While thus Matilda's lay was heard , A thousand thoughts in Edmund stirret . In peasant life he might have known As fair a face , as sweet a tone ; But village notes could ne'er supply That rich and varied ROKEBY . 31.
... . While thus Matilda's lay was heard , A thousand thoughts in Edmund stirret . In peasant life he might have known As fair a face , as sweet a tone ; But village notes could ne'er supply That rich and varied ROKEBY . 31.
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Página 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Página 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Página 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Página 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Página 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Página 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.