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Pàgina 19
... leave no stone unturned ; and at length he wrote to the only man of the age who was likely to lend him a kindly ear - that was Edmund Burke . From that moment his troubles were at an end , and his fortune made . Burke sent for him ...
... leave no stone unturned ; and at length he wrote to the only man of the age who was likely to lend him a kindly ear - that was Edmund Burke . From that moment his troubles were at an end , and his fortune made . Burke sent for him ...
Pàgina 23
... leave to add it to the passage already quoted . " My great - uncle's establishment was that of the first- rate yeoman of that period - the yeoman that already began to be styled by courtesy an esquire . Mr. Tovell might possess an ...
... leave to add it to the passage already quoted . " My great - uncle's establishment was that of the first- rate yeoman of that period - the yeoman that already began to be styled by courtesy an esquire . Mr. Tovell might possess an ...
Pàgina 42
... of that mere ? When I return I will repay thee well . ' " This stranger who has approached leaves the horse with the boy , and never does return . All the hot day the boy stands holding the horse on the dusty road , till 42 HOGG .
... of that mere ? When I return I will repay thee well . ' " This stranger who has approached leaves the horse with the boy , and never does return . All the hot day the boy stands holding the horse on the dusty road , till 42 HOGG .
Pàgina 51
... leave all homage to the reader . " Let the whole body of authors lay these things duly to heart , and there will not long be an association for the maintenance of its honor and its interests in every profes- sion but theirs . Of his ...
... leave all homage to the reader . " Let the whole body of authors lay these things duly to heart , and there will not long be an association for the maintenance of its honor and its interests in every profes- sion but theirs . Of his ...
Pàgina 53
... leaves upon the pathways , My steps the Border Minstrel led . " The mighty minstrel breathes no longer , ' Mid moldering ruins low he lies : And death upon the braes of Yarrow Has closed the shepherd poet's eyes . - " Nor has the ...
... leaves upon the pathways , My steps the Border Minstrel led . " The mighty minstrel breathes no longer , ' Mid moldering ruins low he lies : And death upon the braes of Yarrow Has closed the shepherd poet's eyes . - " Nor has the ...
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Pàgina 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Pàgina 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pàgina 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Pàgina 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Pàgina 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Pàgina 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Pàgina 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Pàgina 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Pàgina 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Pàgina 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...