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... course , how this fine equestrian statue of Charles I. was condemned to be sold and broken up by the Parliament , but was buried and saved by the brazier who purchased it , and so reappeared after the Restoration . To the left , the ...
... course , how this fine equestrian statue of Charles I. was condemned to be sold and broken up by the Parliament , but was buried and saved by the brazier who purchased it , and so reappeared after the Restoration . To the left , the ...
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... course float off from the wreck of our century , on our life - preserving articles , to immortality . What a delight it is to snatch at the unknown head that shows for an instant through the wave , and drag it out to personal ...
... course float off from the wreck of our century , on our life - preserving articles , to immortality . What a delight it is to snatch at the unknown head that shows for an instant through the wave , and drag it out to personal ...
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... course success . - My travelling companion , Chiron , is fond of twitting me as to the success of one of the " social meetings " to which I dragged him , promising to show him something of working - men's life . We arrived too early ...
... course success . - My travelling companion , Chiron , is fond of twitting me as to the success of one of the " social meetings " to which I dragged him , promising to show him something of working - men's life . We arrived too early ...
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... course the best thing possible was to work as widely as you could in getting your recruits ; and , if England were too conservative to say , " We are twenty- eight millions , one - fifth fighting men , " too conservative to put rifles ...
... course the best thing possible was to work as widely as you could in getting your recruits ; and , if England were too conservative to say , " We are twenty- eight millions , one - fifth fighting men , " too conservative to put rifles ...
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... course in paying so very high a price for the overthrow of Napo- leon . It was certain that the genie had broken from his confinement , and that , while he towered to the skies , his shadow lay upon the world . The hegemony which Russia ...
... course in paying so very high a price for the overthrow of Napo- leon . It was certain that the genie had broken from his confinement , and that , while he towered to the skies , his shadow lay upon the world . The hegemony which Russia ...
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Page 181 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 83 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 225 - He giveth His beloved, sleep." For me, my heart that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose Who giveth His beloved, sleep. And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, " Not a tear must o'er her fall ! He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Page 207 - And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Page 131 - That king James II, having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is vacant." Also: "That it hath been found by experience to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince.
Page 47 - To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail ; So varied he, and of his tortuous train Curl'd many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, To lure her eye...
Page 9 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 346 - were so much exhausted with fatigue that they were obliged to lie down for rest on the ground, their tongues hanging out of their mouths, like those of dogs after a chase.
Page 198 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 181 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.