Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend, Volumen 3

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William Pickering, 1850 - 1034 páginas

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Página 997 - I'll tell, that if they be not glad, They yet may envy me ; But then if I grow jealous mad, And of them pitied be, It were a plague 'bove scorn : And yet it cannot be...
Página 761 - Undying recollections; Nature there Was with thee; she, who loved us both, she still Was with thee; and even so didst thou become A silent Poet; from the solitude Of the vast sea didst bring a watchful heart Still couchant, an inevitable ear, And an eye practised like a blind man's touch.
Página 974 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 974 - And how then was the Devil drest? Oh ! he was in his Sunday's best : His jacket was red and his breeches were blue And there was a hole where the tail came through.
Página 708 - In every state, not wholly barbarous, a philosophy good or bad, there must be. However slightingly it may be the fashion to talk of speculation and theory, as opposed (sillily and nonsensically opposed) to practice, it would not be difficult to prove, that such as is the existing spirit of speculation, during any given period, such will be the spirit and tone of the religion, legislation, and morals, nay, even of the fine arts, the manners, and the fashions. Nor is this the less true, because the...
Página 1005 - Toward the close of the first year from the time that, in an inauspicious hour, I left the friendly cloisters and the happy grove of quiet, ever honored Jesus College, Cambridge, I was persuaded by sundry philanthropists and antipolemists to set on foot a periodical work, entitled The Watchman...
Página 1004 - ... of her Vicegerent, so that they may listen to your first pleadings, while yet your voice is faint and distant, and your counsels peaceable. "I remain your distressed suppliant, LIBERTY. The following is the prospectus of Mr. Coleridge's series of Political lectures. ST Coleridge proposes to give, in Six Lectures, a comparative view of the English Rebellion under Charles the First, and the French Revolution.
Página 859 - As this is often complied with, a marketday is mostly a scene of drunkenness and contention, fraud, cunning, and duplicity; the storekeeper denying the possession of a good article, till he fails in imposing a bad one. I have known a person ask for a pair of shoes, and receive for answer that there were no shoes in the store, but some capital gin that could be recommended to him. I have heard another ask for a...
Página 997 - As summer's sky, or purged air, And looks as lilies do That are this morning blown; Yet, yet I doubt he is not known, And fear much more, that more of him be shown.
Página 1005 - Jesus College, Cambridge, I was persuaded by sundry philanthropists and anti-polemists to set on foot a periodical work, entitled The Watchman, that (according to the general motto of the work) all might know the truth, and that the truth might make us free...

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