The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 92
الصفحة 11
... never treated us with much respect or complacency , except where it was for her immediate interest to do so . She shifts her policy towards all strong nations to suit the hour - towards weak ones , to suit her convenience . Now , this ...
... never treated us with much respect or complacency , except where it was for her immediate interest to do so . She shifts her policy towards all strong nations to suit the hour - towards weak ones , to suit her convenience . Now , this ...
الصفحة 13
... never had anything to say against this . This mode . of ruling nations England has yet to learn ; she will yet pay dearly for not having learned it before . I IH . DO not forget here , nor elsewhere , the great and welcome fact , that ...
... never had anything to say against this . This mode . of ruling nations England has yet to learn ; she will yet pay dearly for not having learned it before . I IH . DO not forget here , nor elsewhere , the great and welcome fact , that ...
الصفحة 17
... never pass . But those hearts that beat outside may be as warm as yours , and perhaps as divine music may be heard in heaven when those heart - strings are touched by angel fingers . Your own Dickens , whose suffering heroines you have ...
... never pass . But those hearts that beat outside may be as warm as yours , and perhaps as divine music may be heard in heaven when those heart - strings are touched by angel fingers . Your own Dickens , whose suffering heroines you have ...
الصفحة 19
... never could have impressed me as did that solitary steamer . But while we were lamenting our fate , and the sailors were beginning to get sulky , and the old captain was pacing the deck impatiently , whistling for a wind , far away to ...
... never could have impressed me as did that solitary steamer . But while we were lamenting our fate , and the sailors were beginning to get sulky , and the old captain was pacing the deck impatiently , whistling for a wind , far away to ...
الصفحة 24
... never impute it to us ; for in what part of the world has an Englishman ever been found who had not carried with him a good many testimonials that John Bull was his father ! This hanteur that Englishmen never can get rid of , and perhaps ...
... never impute it to us ; for in what part of the world has an Englishman ever been found who had not carried with him a good many testimonials that John Bull was his father ! This hanteur that Englishmen never can get rid of , and perhaps ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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
مقاطع مشهورة
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.