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... Lord Stuart , 525 Prussiad , 16 Clerical Combinations , 214 Louis Napoleon his own Peace , what hast thou Cape of Good Hope , . 225 Master , 616 with it ? 261 Cuba , 328 Mehemet Ali , 125 Roman Patriot's Lament ,. 67 Cholera , Cessation ...
... Lord Stuart , 525 Prussiad , 16 Clerical Combinations , 214 Louis Napoleon his own Peace , what hast thou Cape of Good Hope , . 225 Master , 616 with it ? 261 Cuba , 328 Mehemet Ali , 125 Roman Patriot's Lament ,. 67 Cholera , Cessation ...
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... Lord ! thou hast permitted it , there- fore I submit with all my strength . " * There is the heavy weariness , and the aching resignation , and the utter weakness , and the deep solemn calm , and the holy strength , and the melancholy ...
... Lord ! thou hast permitted it , there- fore I submit with all my strength . " * There is the heavy weariness , and the aching resignation , and the utter weakness , and the deep solemn calm , and the holy strength , and the melancholy ...
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... Lord Palmerston were to put forth ham - is , as we are informed by these modern lumi- a suggestion for absorbing Hungary into Austria , naries , an unnecessary interference in affairs which with some guarantees for respect to her ...
... Lord Palmerston were to put forth ham - is , as we are informed by these modern lumi- a suggestion for absorbing Hungary into Austria , naries , an unnecessary interference in affairs which with some guarantees for respect to her ...
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... Lord Dalhousie has demanded the surrender of all his guns ; he re- plies , that his soldiers won't let them be given up , but that the British may come and take them . The worst of it is , that this pretext is probably true ; for in the ...
... Lord Dalhousie has demanded the surrender of all his guns ; he re- plies , that his soldiers won't let them be given up , but that the British may come and take them . The worst of it is , that this pretext is probably true ; for in the ...
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... Lord grant that it may last ! How hath it come soe , and how may it be preserved ? This morn , when I awoke , ' t was with a sense of relief such as we have when we miss some wearying bodilie payn ; a feeling as though I had beene ...
... Lord grant that it may last ! How hath it come soe , and how may it be preserved ? This morn , when I awoke , ' t was with a sense of relief such as we have when we miss some wearying bodilie payn ; a feeling as though I had beene ...
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Page 371 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 398 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 393 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 371 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 399 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 378 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 399 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 139 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 378 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 398 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...