The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 99Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1926 |
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Pagina 823 - Jack Cade to his followers: There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer ; all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfry go to grass. . . . There shall be no
Pagina 294 - veins, from the ancient into the modern world. Last in the train of night If better thou belong not to the dawn. And it was from him that thirteen hundred years after his death Dante received the torch of poetry, spreading the grace of
Pagina 319 - labour and capital, are for the major part diverted from their natural application and unproductively consumed. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though to-day regarded as the last word of science, are destined to-morrow to lose all value in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field.
Pagina 833 - He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea ; singing aloud ; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. In The
Pagina 823 - Let's kill all the lawyers. CADE : Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man
Pagina 688 - not in vain By day or starlight thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man But with high objects, with enduring things,— With life and nature—
Pagina 833 - The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows arc fatted with the murrion flock
Pagina 833 - The winds . . . . . . have sucked up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents ; The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows
Pagina 847 - Dum longus inter saeviat Ilion Romamque pontus, qualibet exsules In parte regnanto beati ; Dum Priami Paridisque busto Insultet armentum et catulos ferae Celent inultae, stet Capitolium Fulgens triumphatisque possit Roma ferox dare jura Medis. Horrenda late nomen in ultimas Extendat oras, qua medius liquor Secernit Europen ab Afro, Qua tumidus rigat arva Nilus.
Pagina 354 - A monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure,