The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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الصفحة 67
They were too great to be understood made poor companions for the rest of the
world . Once Dante ( so say Florentine books ) spent an evening in the brilliant
halls of Della Scala , where buffoons were playing their monkey tricks for the ...
They were too great to be understood made poor companions for the rest of the
world . Once Dante ( so say Florentine books ) spent an evening in the brilliant
halls of Della Scala , where buffoons were playing their monkey tricks for the ...
الصفحة 70
But rest thee peacefully , Milton ! Thou art above the need of mortal pity now ; for
although the Paternoster publishers have grown rich from thy “ Paradise Lost , "
they cannot rob thee of thy “ Paradise Regained ; ” nor can they buy it of thee for ...
But rest thee peacefully , Milton ! Thou art above the need of mortal pity now ; for
although the Paternoster publishers have grown rich from thy “ Paradise Lost , "
they cannot rob thee of thy “ Paradise Regained ; ” nor can they buy it of thee for ...
الصفحة 85
Here at last found rest the remains of the two young princes who were basely
murdered by their treacherous uncle , Richard III . The story is faithfully told in a
Latin inscription over their grave . You Vol . I. - H remember that these poor boys
...
Here at last found rest the remains of the two young princes who were basely
murdered by their treacherous uncle , Richard III . The story is faithfully told in a
Latin inscription over their grave . You Vol . I. - H remember that these poor boys
...
الصفحة 87
87 weary with wandering , and sat down to rest myself by the monument ,
revolving in my mind the checkered and disastrous story of poor Mary . ” These
beautiful words you have read in Irving . Time is the great regulator . How sure he
is to do ...
87 weary with wandering , and sat down to rest myself by the monument ,
revolving in my mind the checkered and disastrous story of poor Mary . ” These
beautiful words you have read in Irving . Time is the great regulator . How sure he
is to do ...
الصفحة 89
89 But they are not all of royal or noble blood that rest here . Greater Englishmen
than English kings have a name and a grave within these solemn chambers .
Bucklers , helmets , and broadswords are spread over the tomb of the bold baron
...
89 But they are not all of royal or noble blood that rest here . Greater Englishmen
than English kings have a name and a grave within these solemn chambers .
Bucklers , helmets , and broadswords are spread over the tomb of the bold baron
...
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الصفحة 69 - 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.
الصفحة 243 - As one, who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse, and enjoy their smile, And tempers, as he may, affliction's dart ; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you...
الصفحة 190 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
الصفحة 210 - Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up. The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery, in their hovel is transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person No one has time to dandle it, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humour it.
الصفحة 227 - Oh, the grave ! — the grave ! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment ! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
الصفحة 211 - It was never sung to — -no one ever told to it a tale of the nursery. It was dragged up, to live or to die as it happened. It had no young dreams. It broke at once into the iron realities of life.
الصفحة 211 - It is the rival, till it can be the co-operator, for food with the parent. It is never his mirth, his diversion, his solace ; it never makes him young again, with recalling his young times. The children of the very poor have no young times.
الصفحة 210 - The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of the very poor do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up.
الصفحة 200 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...