Noctes Ambrosianae, Band 5Redfield, 1854 |
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... desires that the living should be persuaded by his tales of triumph , that he too was great in his day , greater than any of them- selves - only less than Achilles . But the impulse that bears him along on the stream of silver speech ...
... desires that the living should be persuaded by his tales of triumph , that he too was great in his day , greater than any of them- selves - only less than Achilles . But the impulse that bears him along on the stream of silver speech ...
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... desire and regret , and believes himself in his golden prime , victorious in battle against chiefs whose sons fell afterward before the gates of Thebes . Speak- ing of them , he feels as if speaking in their hearing ; as if the life ...
... desire and regret , and believes himself in his golden prime , victorious in battle against chiefs whose sons fell afterward before the gates of Thebes . Speak- ing of them , he feels as if speaking in their hearing ; as if the life ...
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... desire and hope of conciliating the base and brutal mob , by treating them as friends and brothers embarked in the same cause . " I , too , am a reformer ! " Alas ! alas ! And so saying , as a smith indignantly testified , he shook ...
... desire and hope of conciliating the base and brutal mob , by treating them as friends and brothers embarked in the same cause . " I , too , am a reformer ! " Alas ! alas ! And so saying , as a smith indignantly testified , he shook ...
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... desires . But it is true that Hope covers from us much of the calamity of life— sometimes by a golden mist- Tickler ... desire than enjoyment , and the hopes which lead them on they do not VOL . V. 3 attain . They pursue a preternatural ...
... desires . But it is true that Hope covers from us much of the calamity of life— sometimes by a golden mist- Tickler ... desire than enjoyment , and the hopes which lead them on they do not VOL . V. 3 attain . They pursue a preternatural ...
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... desires which cannot be realized ? Y. G. I fear to speak - I love to listen . North . And I , Hal , am on the verge - I know - I feel it — of gar- rulous old age . Tickler . Which verge ? North . The mind , my son , cannot rest , for it ...
... desires which cannot be realized ? Y. G. I fear to speak - I love to listen . North . And I , Hal , am on the verge - I know - I feel it — of gar- rulous old age . Tickler . Which verge ? North . The mind , my son , cannot rest , for it ...
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admiration afore alang amang Ambrose anither atween auld Aytoun baith beauty Bill Brougham Buller canna character Charles Kemble Christopher North cou'd cretur dear James dinna doon drama Duke Edinburgh eyes face fear feel Forest frae genius Grey gude Hall happy haun head hear heard heart heaven Hogg honor hope House human hurra imagination intil ither Jeffrey King look Lord Lord Advocate Lord Althorp Lord Brougham Lord Grey Lord Melbourne Maginn mair maist maun micht mind Mullion mysell naething nature never Noctes North owre passion poet Reform Registrar round Sam Anderson Scotland Shepherd sing soul speak spirit sure tell thae theatres there's thing thocht thou Tickler Tory true verra warld weel Whigs WILLIAM MAGINN word wou'd
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Seite 176 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 357 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 419 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin! Here's the house!" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits and we are tired.
Seite 34 - And for the ghastly-grinning shark, to laugh his jaws to scorn ; To leap down on the kraken's back, where 'mid Norwegian isles He lies, a lubber anchorage for sudden...
Seite 104 - 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.
Seite 11 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Seite 420 - twas a bashful art, That I might rather feel, than see, The swelling of her heart. I calmed her fears, and she was calm, And told her love with virgin pride; And so I won my Genevieve, My bright and beauteous Bride.
Seite 34 - King, and royal craftsmen we ! Strike in, strike in — the sparks begin to dull their rustling red, Our hammers ring with sharper din, our work will soon be sped : Our Anchor soon must change his bed of fiery rich array. For a hammock at the roaring bows, or an oozy couch of clay ; Our Anchor soon must change the lay of merry...
Seite 34 - tis thy delight, thy glory day by day, Through sable sea and breaker white, the giant game to play — But shamer of our little sports ! forgive the name I gave — A fisher's joy is to destroy — thine office is to save. O lodger in the sea-kings...
Seite 161 - ... sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, despicere unde queas alios passimque videre errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae, certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate, noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.