The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... force a reform , rather than defy it and provoke a Revolu- tion . This was proved when the great Reform Bill was passed , and the rotten borough system partially abolished . It was made true again , when O'Connell , outside of ...
... force a reform , rather than defy it and provoke a Revolu- tion . This was proved when the great Reform Bill was passed , and the rotten borough system partially abolished . It was made true again , when O'Connell , outside of ...
الصفحة 54
... force with moral power ; but when she made her onset here , then " Greek met Greek . " In the conflicts of ignorant nations , it is only a trial of muscles and bones , like the strifes of brutes ; but in those of enlightened nations ...
... force with moral power ; but when she made her onset here , then " Greek met Greek . " In the conflicts of ignorant nations , it is only a trial of muscles and bones , like the strifes of brutes ; but in those of enlightened nations ...
الصفحة 58
... forces itself upon them , the strong- est , stormiest passions of the human soul are aroused . TH IX . HE English government is a solid one , but it must be infi- nitely more so to sustain itself amid such a wild waking up of men to ...
... forces itself upon them , the strong- est , stormiest passions of the human soul are aroused . TH IX . HE English government is a solid one , but it must be infi- nitely more so to sustain itself amid such a wild waking up of men to ...
الصفحة 59
... force , we imagine , can subdue her . Her provinces might be cut off in a general war , but her throne she would hold against the world . Her danger lies where the exertion of physical force would only increase it . Not abroad , but at ...
... force , we imagine , can subdue her . Her provinces might be cut off in a general war , but her throne she would hold against the world . Her danger lies where the exertion of physical force would only increase it . Not abroad , but at ...
الصفحة 78
... forces in America , and em- ployed in an important but hazardous enterprise , fell a victim to his zeal for his king and country , the 2d October , 1780 , aged twenty - nine , universally beloved and esteemed by the army in which he ...
... forces in America , and em- ployed in an important but hazardous enterprise , fell a victim to his zeal for his king and country , the 2d October , 1780 , aged twenty - nine , universally beloved and esteemed by the army in which he ...
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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.