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Pagina 33
... gave us a tongue to speak the truth , and not falsehood . It is a great offence against humanity itself ; for , where there is no regard to truth , there can be no safe society between man and man . And it is an injury to the speaker ...
... gave us a tongue to speak the truth , and not falsehood . It is a great offence against humanity itself ; for , where there is no regard to truth , there can be no safe society between man and man . And it is an injury to the speaker ...
Pagina 49
... gave full scope to my imagination . I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow - creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding , however affecting the picture was , that I could not bring it near me , and that the ...
... gave full scope to my imagination . I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow - creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding , however affecting the picture was , that I could not bring it near me , and that the ...
Pagina 50
... gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul . I burst into tears : I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn . Sterne . in ' - no - cence oc - ca ' - sion de - spised ' ty ' - rant draught ex ...
... gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul . I burst into tears : I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn . Sterne . in ' - no - cence oc - ca ' - sion de - spised ' ty ' - rant draught ex ...
Pagina 51
... gave an order in writing to Captain Nolan , to take to Lord Lucan , directing his lordship ' to advance ' his cavalry nearer to the enemy . 2. When Lord Lucan received the order from Captain Nolan , and had read it , he asked , we are ...
... gave an order in writing to Captain Nolan , to take to Lord Lucan , directing his lordship ' to advance ' his cavalry nearer to the enemy . 2. When Lord Lucan received the order from Captain Nolan , and had read it , he asked , we are ...
Pagina 63
... thought the strong and brave , Who bore their lifeless chieftain forth , Or the young wife , that weeping gave Her first - born to the earth- That the pale race , who waste us now , AN INDIAN AT THE BURYING - PLACE . 63.
... thought the strong and brave , Who bore their lifeless chieftain forth , Or the young wife , that weeping gave Her first - born to the earth- That the pale race , who waste us now , AN INDIAN AT THE BURYING - PLACE . 63.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 193 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Pagina 230 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Pagina 133 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Pagina 229 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 173 - WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!
Pagina 199 - Myself and what is mine to you and yours Is now converted: but now I was the lord Of this fair mansion, master of my servants, Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now, This house, these servants, and this same myself Are yours, my lord. I give them with this ring...
Pagina 173 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Pagina 134 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Pagina 220 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Pagina 112 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...