Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 31John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1854 - American periodicals |
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... honor and of long remembrance . History tells us of many greater statesmen , but of few better men . Without going so far as his enthusiastic daughter , who more than once declares that his genius was bounded only by his virtue , we ...
... honor and of long remembrance . History tells us of many greater statesmen , but of few better men . Without going so far as his enthusiastic daughter , who more than once declares that his genius was bounded only by his virtue , we ...
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... honor : I am generally ordered with her to dinner , as one orders beans and bacon ; I have , in consequence , dined with her at the houses of almost all the Cabinet Minis- ters . She is one of the few persons who surpass expectation ...
... honor : I am generally ordered with her to dinner , as one orders beans and bacon ; I have , in consequence , dined with her at the houses of almost all the Cabinet Minis- ters . She is one of the few persons who surpass expectation ...
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... honor , and the mould of intellectual form , the highest and most sure - footed intellect then extant - is ex- ceedingly likely . But that this feeling was " jealousy , " we dare to deny . Jealousy im- plies fear and doubt , and also an ...
... honor , and the mould of intellectual form , the highest and most sure - footed intellect then extant - is ex- ceedingly likely . But that this feeling was " jealousy , " we dare to deny . Jealousy im- plies fear and doubt , and also an ...
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... honor of the joyous festival of the Nativity . On the next day , Saturday , the Feast of St. Stephen , and on Sunday , the Feast of St. John , he again cel- ebrated mass and towards the close of the Sabbath , under cover of the night ...
... honor of the joyous festival of the Nativity . On the next day , Saturday , the Feast of St. Stephen , and on Sunday , the Feast of St. John , he again cel- ebrated mass and towards the close of the Sabbath , under cover of the night ...
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... honor of the Trinity , the Virgin , and St. Thomas of Canterbury . Fitzurse is said to have gone over to Ireland , and there to have become the ancestor of the M'Mahon family in the north of Ireland - M'Mahon being the Celtic ...
... honor of the Trinity , the Virgin , and St. Thomas of Canterbury . Fitzurse is said to have gone over to Ireland , and there to have become the ancestor of the M'Mahon family in the north of Ireland - M'Mahon being the Celtic ...
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Page 493 - A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed: Sheba was never More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue, Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces, That mould up such a mighty piece as this is, With all the virtues that attend the good, Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her, Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her...
Page 84 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure...
Page 268 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn! — for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Page 316 - Or sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, And all the shows o' the world, are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe 'too deep for tears' when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing Spirit, Whose light adorned the world around it, leaves Those who remain behind, not sobs or groans, The passionate tumult of a clinging hope, — But pale despair and cold tranquillity, Nature's vast frame, the web of human things, Birth and...
Page 84 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Page 490 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 443 - Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 190 - For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Page 291 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 25 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!