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... beautiful and interesting girl , the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister . She loved him with the disinterested fervor of a woman's first and early love . When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him ; when blasted in ...
... beautiful and interesting girl , the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister . She loved him with the disinterested fervor of a woman's first and early love . When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him ; when blasted in ...
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... beautiful and opulent country - what civil dissensions have happened , thus to tear asunder and separate the happy societies that once possessed those villages -what disputed succession - what religious rage has , with unholy violence ...
... beautiful and opulent country - what civil dissensions have happened , thus to tear asunder and separate the happy societies that once possessed those villages -what disputed succession - what religious rage has , with unholy violence ...
Page 116
... beautiful language of Roscoe , " whilst the study of polite literature was thus emerging from its state of torpor , the other sciences felt the effects of the same invigorating beam , and the city of Florence , like a sheltered garden ...
... beautiful language of Roscoe , " whilst the study of polite literature was thus emerging from its state of torpor , the other sciences felt the effects of the same invigorating beam , and the city of Florence , like a sheltered garden ...
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... , refresh our memories , gratify our curiosity , and enrich our minds ! Great as are the pleasures to be derived from beholding the beautiful productions of the artist , what are they— what can they be , compared to those which the 119.
... , refresh our memories , gratify our curiosity , and enrich our minds ! Great as are the pleasures to be derived from beholding the beautiful productions of the artist , what are they— what can they be , compared to those which the 119.
Page 120
... beautiful shape of woman could be chiselled to such a degree of perfection as almost to mock reality ! How ex- quisite are those specimens of sculpture which have been handed down to us from the ancients , and which , while we gaze on ...
... beautiful shape of woman could be chiselled to such a degree of perfection as almost to mock reality ! How ex- quisite are those specimens of sculpture which have been handed down to us from the ancients , and which , while we gaze on ...
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Page 156 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, that never a hall such a galliard did grace; while her mother did fret, and her father did fume. and the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; and the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 153 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 59 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Page 152 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 156 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 159 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! LXXXVH.
Page 15 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 16 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 151 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 161 - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.