The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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الصفحة 199
... festive board , I pledge myself , with the blessing of God , to forward from some of the friends of literature in America , during the year , an offering - such as it may be- 200 ACCOUNT OF ALMACK'S . to show that in everything.
... festive board , I pledge myself , with the blessing of God , to forward from some of the friends of literature in America , during the year , an offering - such as it may be- 200 ACCOUNT OF ALMACK'S . to show that in everything.
الصفحة 200
... Almack's . I had often heard of Almack's , but I knew very little about it . Since then I have , from vari- ous sources , gathered the following information concerning this " Temple of Fashion : " It is a place where " the very soul of ...
... Almack's . I had often heard of Almack's , but I knew very little about it . Since then I have , from vari- ous sources , gathered the following information concerning this " Temple of Fashion : " It is a place where " the very soul of ...
الصفحة 201
... Almack's is to be above all solicitude for char- acter or titles : for admission here presupposes all this , and , moreover , is of itself so vast an elevation in public consideration , that all others may at once be lost sight of and ...
... Almack's is to be above all solicitude for char- acter or titles : for admission here presupposes all this , and , moreover , is of itself so vast an elevation in public consideration , that all others may at once be lost sight of and ...
الصفحة 203
... Almack's , and then in luxuriating upon their hard - won honors . After days , and nights , and weeks , and months ... Almack - favored are worth more than all these for the purposes of living , at least good living , to the ...
... Almack's , and then in luxuriating upon their hard - won honors . After days , and nights , and weeks , and months ... Almack - favored are worth more than all these for the purposes of living , at least good living , to the ...
الصفحة 205
... Almack's , though Lord Byron , whose moral tastes have never been condemned for their purity , thought the waltz should be banished from virtuous society ) , that cases are not unfrequent , in the full tide of the dance , of the more ...
... Almack's , though Lord Byron , whose moral tastes have never been condemned for their purity , thought the waltz should be banished from virtuous society ) , that cases are not unfrequent , in the full tide of the dance , of the more ...
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Abbey Almack's American aristocracy arms Bishop blood bread Britain British Catholic cause centuries Chartist cheers Church of England civil classes clergy commerce Corn Laws declared discontent Dissenters distress Duke earth empire England English government Established Church estates Europe famine father feel feudal France freedom give hand heart heaven honor House House of Lords human hundred Ireland Irish Irishman justice king labor land landlord legislation liberty live London look Lord Lord John Russell ment millions minister monarch monument nation never noble O'Connell once oppression Parliament passed Pilgrim Fathers poor population principle reform religious ministers revenue revolution Rome shores shout Sir Robert Peel slavery spirit stand starvation starving struggle suffering tenant things Thomas Clarkson Thorogood thousand throne tion tithes Tories truth union wealth Westminster Westminster Abbey whole wrong
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الصفحة 76 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
الصفحة 109 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
الصفحة 79 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour.
الصفحة 75 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 74 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
الصفحة 94 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
الصفحة 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
الصفحة 78 - Andre, who, raised by his merit, at an early period of life, to the rank of Adjutant-General of the British forces in America, and, employed in an important but hazardous enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his King and Country, on the 2d...
الصفحة 74 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
الصفحة 74 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.