The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... of their history and of their early greatness , the land which holds the august monuments of your ancient race , the works of your illustrious fathers , and their graves . " 24 NATIONAL SENTIMENT OF ENGLISHMEN . as a sarcasm ,
... of their history and of their early greatness , the land which holds the august monuments of your ancient race , the works of your illustrious fathers , and their graves . " 24 NATIONAL SENTIMENT OF ENGLISHMEN . as a sarcasm ,
الصفحة 62
... monuments of England's glory as she was . AT XI . T the further end of the adjoining room sat a solitary “ Cru- sader on his barbed horse , said to be seven hundred years old . " Stern , grim old figure ! On the very trappings of thy ...
... monuments of England's glory as she was . AT XI . T the further end of the adjoining room sat a solitary “ Cru- sader on his barbed horse , said to be seven hundred years old . " Stern , grim old figure ! On the very trappings of thy ...
الصفحة 63
... Monument , which is near by , to look around on the World of London , heaving with its ex- cited , busy millions , like a stirred ocean . I once more looked on the actual and the real . The rolling of ten thousand car- riages , the ...
... Monument , which is near by , to look around on the World of London , heaving with its ex- cited , busy millions , like a stirred ocean . I once more looked on the actual and the real . The rolling of ten thousand car- riages , the ...
الصفحة 65
... monuments of royal vanity into money , which shall clothe and feed the naked and the hungry , and in a day , they will purchase more happiness , than they will impart though they shine on for a thousand centuries . How strong must be ...
... monuments of royal vanity into money , which shall clothe and feed the naked and the hungry , and in a day , they will purchase more happiness , than they will impart though they shine on for a thousand centuries . How strong must be ...
الصفحة 69
... not expect anything better than an interment in unconsecrated ground . In course of time , the noble and learned had the privilege of burial in the Abbey gradually extended 70 DESTRUCTION OF SACRED MONUMENTS . to them ; but.
... not expect anything better than an interment in unconsecrated ground . In course of time , the noble and learned had the privilege of burial in the Abbey gradually extended 70 DESTRUCTION OF SACRED MONUMENTS . to them ; but.
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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 once oppression Parliament passed Pilgrim Fathers poor population principle reform religious ministers Republic 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.