Palace and the Hospital: Or, Chronicles of Greenwich, Volumen 2Hurst, 1886 |
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Página 70 - 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'er-flowing full.
Página 70 - twixt anger, shame, and fear, Those for what's past, and this for what's too near, My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Página 172 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 187 - Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Página 169 - Your pinners set right, your twitcher tied on, Your prayers at an end, and your breakfast quite done, Retire to some author improving and gay, And with sense like your own, set your mind for the day, At twelve you may walk, for at this time o...
Página 306 - Nelson now desired to be turned upon his right side, and said : " I wish I had not left the deck, for I shall soon be gone." Death was indeed rapidly approaching. He said to the chaplain : " Doctor, I have not been a great sinner." And after a short pause : " Remember that I leave Lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country.
Página 70 - Then in came Denham, that limping old bard, Whose fame on the Sophy and Cooper's Hill stands ; And brought many stationers who swore very hard That nothing sold better, except 'twere his lands.
Página 53 - To Mr. Lilly's, the painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of York against the Dutch. The Duke of York hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very finely they are done indeed.
Página 125 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Página 300 - ... friends shall not blush for me. These things are in the hands of a wise and just Providence and His will be done! I have got some trifle, thank God, to leave to those I hold most dear, and I have taken care not to neglect it.