Historical EssaysHatchard, 1851 - 764 páginas |
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... centuries to this fatal Revolution , and exclaim in the language of the Roman poet , " Hoc fonte derivata clades In patriam , populum que fluxit . " April 16th , 1851 . CONTENTS . 0 : - AN ESSAY ON FRENCH SOCIALISM X.
... centuries to this fatal Revolution , and exclaim in the language of the Roman poet , " Hoc fonte derivata clades In patriam , populum que fluxit . " April 16th , 1851 . CONTENTS . 0 : - AN ESSAY ON FRENCH SOCIALISM X.
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... century , who included the 23rd of June and the 10th of August , for the royalty of Louis Philippe , in a single week . For destroying constitutions or subverting govern- ments , there is no one equal to a poet who has turned legislator ...
... century , who included the 23rd of June and the 10th of August , for the royalty of Louis Philippe , in a single week . For destroying constitutions or subverting govern- ments , there is no one equal to a poet who has turned legislator ...
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... century . Compare the comforts , the con- veniences , and the luxuries , which are now thrown into the lap of society , with the rude and imperfect contrivances to which former generations were com- pelled to submit . Pass in review the ...
... century . Compare the comforts , the con- veniences , and the luxuries , which are now thrown into the lap of society , with the rude and imperfect contrivances to which former generations were com- pelled to submit . Pass in review the ...
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... century ago , observes , " It is time to lay aside all endeavours to bring under strict regulations , what , in its own nature , seems incapable of minute limitation ; for if all persons in the same kind of work were to receive equal ...
... century ago , observes , " It is time to lay aside all endeavours to bring under strict regulations , what , in its own nature , seems incapable of minute limitation ; for if all persons in the same kind of work were to receive equal ...
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... century ; for whoever refers to the annals of the past , will find abundant evidence to prove that in all ages , both ancient , as well as modern , there have been periods when these infamous doctrines , which propose a spoliation and ...
... century ; for whoever refers to the annals of the past , will find abundant evidence to prove that in all ages , both ancient , as well as modern , there have been periods when these infamous doctrines , which propose a spoliation and ...
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Página 496 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 277 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Página 494 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Página 496 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 489 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 494 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels jtiin'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 204 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Página 424 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 218 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Página 497 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.