Cambridge Essays, Volume 4John W. Parker and son, 1858 |
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... Italy produced books which are currently quoted as those of Aretino and Machiavelli ; that the name of France's hero , Voltaire , never can be disconnected with the Pucelle any more than with the Henriade , and Louvet lives in the ...
... Italy produced books which are currently quoted as those of Aretino and Machiavelli ; that the name of France's hero , Voltaire , never can be disconnected with the Pucelle any more than with the Henriade , and Louvet lives in the ...
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... Italy throbbing with expectation , Russia silent , France observant , the un- friends of England anticipating abatement of her greatness , her friends dreading lest even her vast strength should be over- tasked . But this great and ...
... Italy throbbing with expectation , Russia silent , France observant , the un- friends of England anticipating abatement of her greatness , her friends dreading lest even her vast strength should be over- tasked . But this great and ...
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... Italy . * But the ship would probably be freed from the consequences of such rough.handling by the expedient adopted at length on that occasion , namely , by landing a party of marines . For there is in every martello tower , if not ...
... Italy . * But the ship would probably be freed from the consequences of such rough.handling by the expedient adopted at length on that occasion , namely , by landing a party of marines . For there is in every martello tower , if not ...
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... Italian queen made the decoy - birds of her stratagems , and looked with reverence on the grey hairs of the admiral , the very type of his party , cautious in judgment , spotless in honour , in- flexible in resolve , who was now ...
... Italian queen made the decoy - birds of her stratagems , and looked with reverence on the grey hairs of the admiral , the very type of his party , cautious in judgment , spotless in honour , in- flexible in resolve , who was now ...
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... Italy no longer covered by the might of Spain against the assaults of the Ottoman power , and began to speculate , with something like hope , on the results to Europe , if St. Peter's , like another St. Sophia , should be swept clean ...
... Italy no longer covered by the might of Spain against the assaults of the Ottoman power , and began to speculate , with something like hope , on the results to Europe , if St. Peter's , like another St. Sophia , should be swept clean ...
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Page 124 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 161 - O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Page 68 - Those who roused the people to resistance, who directed their measures through a long series of eventful years, who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, who trampled down King, Church, and Aristocracy, who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics.
Page 111 - ... comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Page 86 - They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise ; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my Soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass : But one worse fault— Ambition — I...
Page 97 - LEAVE ME, O LOVE Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things. Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
Page 161 - And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Page 120 - And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.
Page 84 - I will report no other wonder but this : that, though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind...
Page 13 - THIS series is intended to supply for the use of Schools and Students cheap and accurate editions of the Classics, which shall be superior in mechanical execution to the small German editions now current in this country, and more convenient in form. The texts of the Bibliotheca Classics and Grammar School Classics, so far as they have been published, will be adopted.