The old love and the new, Volume 2 |
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Page 192 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 142 - The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before : as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend.
Page 139 - ... of the conquerors and the conquered. See Juvenal, Sat. X. 133. Bellorum exuviae, truncis affixa tropseis Lorica, et fracta de casside buccula pendens, Et curtum temone jugum, victseque triremis Aplustre. And Virgil, JEn.
Page 51 - The workmanship of this frieze is exceedingly rude, and would never have been guessed to belong to the same period and the same school as the Elgin marbles. It may be that it was the work of Phigalean artists, after drawings sent from Athens.
Page 273 - As soon as the Preliminaries shall be signed and ratified, sincere friendship shall be re-established between his Britannic Majesty and the French Republic, by sea and by land, in all parts of the world ; and in order that all hostilities may cease immediately between the two Powers, and between...
Page 256 - ... in any other part of the world that I have ever seen or read of.
Page 237 - Et nunc lenta manu spargens hastilia densat, Nunc validam dextra rapit indefessa bipennem : Aureus ex humero sonat areus, et arma Dianœ.