De Clifford: Or, the Constant Man, Volume 3Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Page 249 - Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 279 - George's banner, broad and gay Now faded, as the fading ray Less bright, and less, was flung ; The evening gale had scarce the power To wave it on the Donjon Tower, So heavily it hung.
Page 243 - While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 34 - When Poverty comes in at the Door, love flies out of the Window.
Page 103 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have : And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 199 - Against the poets their own arms they turn'd, Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd. So modern 'Pothecaries, taught the art By Doctors' Bills to play the Doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules.
Page 198 - Who could not win the mistress, woo'd the maid; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd, Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd. So modern 'pothecaries taught the art By doctors...
Page 9 - MOON. THE Moon is sailing o'er the sky, But lonely all, as if she pined For somewhat of companionship, And felt it was in vain she shined : Earth is her mirror, and the stars Are as the court around her throne ; She is a beauty and a queen ; But what is this ? she is alone.
Page 200 - Dulness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Ill-Manners. The goddess herself had claws like a cat; her head, and ears, and voice, resembled those of an ass; her teeth fallen out before, her eyes turned inward as if she...
Page 203 - ... to be pastoral, and everybody knows what a good fellow he was ; how beloved by his friends ; how social, and yet how sequestered ; and how he preferred a house but a floor high at Richmond (for that which is now shown as his, was then a ground-floor only), to one of more imposing dimensions amidst " the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call London.