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... turning his sad contempla- tions inwards , he applies to himself the fatal history of the king of Sparta . It is as follows : -Pausanias , ' a Lacedemonian general , acquires glory by the im- portant victory at Platæa , but afterwards ...
... turning his sad contempla- tions inwards , he applies to himself the fatal history of the king of Sparta . It is as follows : -Pausanias , ' a Lacedemonian general , acquires glory by the im- portant victory at Platæa , but afterwards ...
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... turn- ' ing over Little , which I knew by heart in 1803 , ' being then in my fifteenth summer . Heigho ! I be- ' lieve all the mischief I have ever done , or sung , has ' been owing to that confounded book of yours . ' In my last I told ...
... turn- ' ing over Little , which I knew by heart in 1803 , ' being then in my fifteenth summer . Heigho ! I be- ' lieve all the mischief I have ever done , or sung , has ' been owing to that confounded book of yours . ' In my last I told ...
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... turn out a romance , in the Anglo ' fashion . ' 6 ' However , I suspect I know a thing or two of Italy ' -more than Lady Morgan has picked up in her posting . What do Englishmen know of Italians beyond their museums and saloons - and ...
... turn out a romance , in the Anglo ' fashion . ' 6 ' However , I suspect I know a thing or two of Italy ' -more than Lady Morgan has picked up in her posting . What do Englishmen know of Italians beyond their museums and saloons - and ...
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... turn over the earlier pages of the Hunting- " don peerage story , you will see how common a name Ada was in the early Plantagenet days . I found it in my own pedigree in the reign of John and Henry , and gave it to my daughter . It was ...
... turn over the earlier pages of the Hunting- " don peerage story , you will see how common a name Ada was in the early Plantagenet days . I found it in my own pedigree in the reign of John and Henry , and gave it to my daughter . It was ...
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... turn the same . To - night at the theatre , there being a prince on his ' throne in the last scene of the comedy , -the au- ' dience laughed , and asked him for a Constitution . This shows the state of the public mind here , as well ...
... turn the same . To - night at the theatre , there being a prince on his ' throne in the last scene of the comedy , -the au- ' dience laughed , and asked him for a Constitution . This shows the state of the public mind here , as well ...
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Página 626 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses...
Página 496 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood ! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live ? The land of honourable death Is here : — up to the field, and give Away thy breath ! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best ; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Página 98 - tis a grand poem — and so true! — true as the 10th of Juvenal himself. The lapse of ages changes all things — time — language — the earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing * about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been, and always will be, an unlucky rascal.
Página 285 - Not happy, in thy death thou surely wert, Thy wish accomplished ; dying in the land Where thy young mind had caught ethereal fire, Dying in GREECE, and in a cause so glorious ! They in thy train — ah, little did they think, As round we went, that they so soon should sit Mourning beside thee, while a Nation...
Página 623 - I direct that they, my said trustees and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Página 286 - This meeting annihilated for a moment all the years between the present time and the days of Harrow. It was a new and inexplicable feeling, like rising from the grave, to me. Clare, too, was much agitated — more in appearance than even myself ; for I could feel his heart beat to his fingers' ends, unless, indeed, it was the pulse of my own which made me think so.
Página 137 - Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Página 495 - No torch is kindled at its blaze A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. But 'tis not thus - and 'tis not here Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now, Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see ! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free.
Página 85 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy...
Página 107 - Well, I would rather have had my talk with Lawrence (who talked delightfully) and heard the girl, than have had all the fame of Moore and me put together. The only pleasure of fame is that it paves the way to pleasure; and the more intellectual our pleasure, the better for the pleasure and for us too.