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118. oldal
Bereft of high ambition ' s meed , And thou my dearer honour stained , From foul
contempt I ' d soon been freed , But that one sweetening drop remained : One life
- prized drop whose healing sweetness Had soothed of woe its sharpest sting ...
Bereft of high ambition ' s meed , And thou my dearer honour stained , From foul
contempt I ' d soon been freed , But that one sweetening drop remained : One life
- prized drop whose healing sweetness Had soothed of woe its sharpest sting ...
122. oldal
ercise of these his choicest attributes , veiled from our eyes the volume of futurity ,
and canst thou question his mercy , or arraign his wisdom ? - but , if thou canst ,
follow me . ” Abashed , yet anxious to see the result , I followed till we came to a ...
ercise of these his choicest attributes , veiled from our eyes the volume of futurity ,
and canst thou question his mercy , or arraign his wisdom ? - but , if thou canst ,
follow me . ” Abashed , yet anxious to see the result , I followed till we came to a ...
127. oldal
Conceiving , as thou dost , that thou hast some knowledge of philosophy , thou
shouldst not be ignorant that men ought to be governed according to the time ,
the place , and the circumstances in which they are situated . It was by thyself that
I ...
Conceiving , as thou dost , that thou hast some knowledge of philosophy , thou
shouldst not be ignorant that men ought to be governed according to the time ,
the place , and the circumstances in which they are situated . It was by thyself that
I ...
176. oldal
Ah pretty flower , thou couldst not bear That bosom ' s touch - the joy of lving On
love ' s soft throne , a heaven , where I envy thee the bliss of dying " . But say , oh
say , what made thee die ? Didst thou e ' er love her unrequited ? Didst thou e ...
Ah pretty flower , thou couldst not bear That bosom ' s touch - the joy of lving On
love ' s soft throne , a heaven , where I envy thee the bliss of dying " . But say , oh
say , what made thee die ? Didst thou e ' er love her unrequited ? Didst thou e ...
283. oldal
But this reward , so glorious , and so far beyond all human desert , thou canst not
obtain by the mere abstinence from vice ; thou must also practise virtue . Thou
must be charitable to the distressed ; kind to the unfortunate ; and merciful to the ...
But this reward , so glorious , and so far beyond all human desert , thou canst not
obtain by the mere abstinence from vice ; thou must also practise virtue . Thou
must be charitable to the distressed ; kind to the unfortunate ; and merciful to the ...
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231. oldal - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
345. oldal - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
231. oldal - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
231. oldal - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
231. oldal - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
199. oldal - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
96. oldal - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
100. oldal - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
322. oldal - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
207. oldal - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...