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... spirit - stirring measure , that- " We were the sons of the main , Who had conquer'd on Cressy plain ; And what our fathers did once , The sons could do again . " Against this feeling it was in vain to talk ; and the Opposition talked ...
... spirit - stirring measure , that- " We were the sons of the main , Who had conquer'd on Cressy plain ; And what our fathers did once , The sons could do again . " Against this feeling it was in vain to talk ; and the Opposition talked ...
Page vi
... spirit was subdued by the surrounding events . The anti - ministerial newspapers far out - numbered the ministerial - the voice of the Edinburgh Review was omnipotent and if we looked among the monthly publica- tions , we do not ...
... spirit was subdued by the surrounding events . The anti - ministerial newspapers far out - numbered the ministerial - the voice of the Edinburgh Review was omnipotent and if we looked among the monthly publica- tions , we do not ...
Page ix
... spirit of their veteran but impotent battalions ; and their leaders soon showed , by their altered system of tactics , that they feared a fatal overthrow . Still there was a mighty sound of trumpets - much bravadoing - and even apparent ...
... spirit of their veteran but impotent battalions ; and their leaders soon showed , by their altered system of tactics , that they feared a fatal overthrow . Still there was a mighty sound of trumpets - much bravadoing - and even apparent ...
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... spirit , breathed through every article . Authors felt that they were understood and appreciated , and readers were delighted to have their own uncorrupted feelings authorized and sanctioned . In another year the whole periodical ...
... spirit , breathed through every article . Authors felt that they were understood and appreciated , and readers were delighted to have their own uncorrupted feelings authorized and sanctioned . In another year the whole periodical ...
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... spirit . Scott , Byron , Wordsworth , Southey , Coleridge , and others , are men to stand undiminished - undwindled , by the side of the giants of the olden time . They too had , one and all of them , been insulted equally by the abuse ...
... spirit . Scott , Byron , Wordsworth , Southey , Coleridge , and others , are men to stand undiminished - undwindled , by the side of the giants of the olden time . They too had , one and all of them , been insulted equally by the abuse ...
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Page 313 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Page 313 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook That I must look in vain ! But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid ; ' And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary ! thou art dead ! If thou wouldst stay e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene- I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been...
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Page 313 - Like the sun, thy presence glowing, Clothes the meanest things in light; And when thou, like him, art going, Loveliest objects fade in night. All things looked so bright about thee, That they nothing seem without thee; By that pure and lucid mind Earthly things were too, refined. Go, thou vision, wildly gleaming, Softly on my soul that fell; Go, for me no longer beaming — Hope and Beauty! fare ye well!
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Page 344 - ... with lovely gleam, Comes gliding in serene and slow, Soft and silent as a dream, A solitary Doe! White she is as lily of June, And beauteous as the silver moon When out of sight the clouds are driven And she is left alone in heaven; Or like a ship some gentle day In sunshine sailing far away, A glittering ship, that hath the plain Of ocean for her own domain.
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Page 313 - Go, forget me — why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling ? Go. forget me — and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile — though I shall not be near thee, Sing, though I shall never hear thee; May thy soul with pleasure shine Lasting as the gloom of mine.