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... Law , Hypocrisy Detected , Life compared to the Stage , The Chameleon , Lodgings for Single Gentlemen , Toby Tosspot , The Newcastle Apothecary , Pity for Poor Africans , Extract from the Litany , Campbell , ib . Steven , 297 Cowper ...
... Law , Hypocrisy Detected , Life compared to the Stage , The Chameleon , Lodgings for Single Gentlemen , Toby Tosspot , The Newcastle Apothecary , Pity for Poor Africans , Extract from the Litany , Campbell , ib . Steven , 297 Cowper ...
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... laws of the Medes and Per- sians , unalterable . But there are those of the highest re- spectability , as teachers of Elocution , who have complained of the number , the complexity , inconsistency , and in many instances , of the ...
... laws of the Medes and Per- sians , unalterable . But there are those of the highest re- spectability , as teachers of Elocution , who have complained of the number , the complexity , inconsistency , and in many instances , of the ...
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... laws by which nature governs all the inflections of language . With the general , though not the particular ideas of Walker on this subject , we are glad to say that we agree . He refers these sentences to his other rules , and we refer ...
... laws by which nature governs all the inflections of language . With the general , though not the particular ideas of Walker on this subject , we are glad to say that we agree . He refers these sentences to his other rules , and we refer ...
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... law of our nature ; and he must have a very high opinion of his own genius indeed , that can believe himself an exception to it . A very wise law of our nature it is ; for industry is , in truth , the great condimentum , the seasoning ...
... law of our nature ; and he must have a very high opinion of his own genius indeed , that can believe himself an exception to it . A very wise law of our nature it is ; for industry is , in truth , the great condimentum , the seasoning ...
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... laws , and I will be a sister to you . " — " No , Lady , " answer- ed Rebecca , the same calm melancholy reigning in her soft voice and beautiful features , that may not be ; I may not change the faith of my fathers like a garment ...
... laws , and I will be a sister to you . " — " No , Lady , " answer- ed Rebecca , the same calm melancholy reigning in her soft voice and beautiful features , that may not be ; I may not change the faith of my fathers like a garment ...
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Seite 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Seite 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Seite 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Seite 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Seite 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Seite 217 - 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...