Curran and His ContemporariesW. Blackwood, 1850 - 496 páginas |
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... doubt visible in mine . I had heard , and truly , that he never was more delightful than with half - a - dozen friends , after dinner , over his bottle . The hope in which I so long had revelled was realised at last and here came this ...
... doubt visible in mine . I had heard , and truly , that he never was more delightful than with half - a - dozen friends , after dinner , over his bottle . The hope in which I so long had revelled was realised at last and here came this ...
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... doubt that the character of the man is often moulded from the accidental impression of the childhood ; and he must have been but an inaccurate observer who did not trace all the maternal features in the filial piety that delighted to ...
... doubt that the character of the man is often moulded from the accidental impression of the childhood ; and he must have been but an inaccurate observer who did not trace all the maternal features in the filial piety that delighted to ...
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... doubt his success would have been splendid : he would have been the poorest and the most popular preacher of the day . He was too independent to fawn , and had too much genius to rise he would have been adored by the congregation ...
... doubt his success would have been splendid : he would have been the poorest and the most popular preacher of the day . He was too independent to fawn , and had too much genius to rise he would have been adored by the congregation ...
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... doubt , at this moment , many men of genius amongst the junior fellows of the College , but they so totally attach themselves to tuition that literature is out of the question . stipendiaries on the institution , whose united salaries ...
... doubt , at this moment , many men of genius amongst the junior fellows of the College , but they so totally attach themselves to tuition that literature is out of the question . stipendiaries on the institution , whose united salaries ...
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... doubt after a perusal of the following anecdote . There is attached to it , amongst other advantages , a most magnificent library , of which the regulations were so rigid , and the public hours so few , that it had become , to the ...
... doubt after a perusal of the following anecdote . There is attached to it , amongst other advantages , a most magnificent library , of which the regulations were so rigid , and the public hours so few , that it had become , to the ...
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Página 78 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 310 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 310 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him. Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow ; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow.
Página 304 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Página 310 - SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 298 - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Página 301 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 299 - By you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your lordship might swim in...
Página 173 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Página 297 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...