Literary and Historical MiscellaniesHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 517 páginas |
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Página 97 - And you, brave COBHAM ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past ; " Oh, save my country, Heaven !
Página 93 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Página 44 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile.
Página 412 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer?
Página 250 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Página 27 - Beneath the smoking sirloin, stretch'd immense From side to side ; in which, with desperate knife, They deep incision make...
Página 44 - Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start, But pride congeal'd the drop within his e'e. Apart he stalk'd in joyless reverie, And from his native land resolved to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea : With pleasure drugg'd, he almost longed for woe, And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below.
Página 95 - I give and I devise (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) my lands and tenements to Ned." "Your money, sir?" — "My money, Sir, what all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
Página 99 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 307 - That the condition of a slave is better under an arbitrary than under a free government is, I believe, supported by the history of all ages and nations.