The Metropolitan, Volume 39James Cochrane, 1844 - English literature |
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... live - long day is more suited to his quiet habits , than entangling his character in state prosecutions . He is no petrel - he loves not the tempest . His Jan. 1844. - VOL . XXXIX . - NO . CLIII . C mind is essentially calculated for ...
... live - long day is more suited to his quiet habits , than entangling his character in state prosecutions . He is no petrel - he loves not the tempest . His Jan. 1844. - VOL . XXXIX . - NO . CLIII . C mind is essentially calculated for ...
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... live here content for ever . But have pity on my confusion . So many strange adventures have crowded upon me during the last twenty - four hours , that I scarcely know yet whether I shall not awake , and find it all a dream . " " What ...
... live here content for ever . But have pity on my confusion . So many strange adventures have crowded upon me during the last twenty - four hours , that I scarcely know yet whether I shall not awake , and find it all a dream . " " What ...
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... live and die chief minister of France , even if he reached no higher station ; to marry his nieces to the best blood of the kingdom ; to amass kingly wealth , and sur- round himself with the rarest objects of art and luxury , were doubt ...
... live and die chief minister of France , even if he reached no higher station ; to marry his nieces to the best blood of the kingdom ; to amass kingly wealth , and sur- round himself with the rarest objects of art and luxury , were doubt ...
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... live ; But it dies without Hope ; and the new , new year , has never a hope to give . I looked in a mute amaze - the clock kept ticking on ; The months which had nursed the pale old year had vanished one by one ; The fateful minute came ...
... live ; But it dies without Hope ; and the new , new year , has never a hope to give . I looked in a mute amaze - the clock kept ticking on ; The months which had nursed the pale old year had vanished one by one ; The fateful minute came ...
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... live Over again ( with hearts how changed ! ) The years with time's dark shadows ranged , But the strong current ebbs no more Gustavus had lost this opportunity , and for ever , of showing his kind father , who had lived with them ...
... live Over again ( with hearts how changed ! ) The years with time's dark shadows ranged , But the strong current ebbs no more Gustavus had lost this opportunity , and for ever , of showing his kind father , who had lived with them ...
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Page 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Page 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Page 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Page 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Page 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Page 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...