Essays and Lectures: Historical and LiteraryHodges, Smith, & Foster, 1868 - 478 pages |
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... head great and round ; his eyes were fiery , red , and grim , and his face very high - coloured ; his voice or speech was shaking , quivering , or trembling ; his neck short , his breast broad and big ; strong - armed ; his body was ...
... head great and round ; his eyes were fiery , red , and grim , and his face very high - coloured ; his voice or speech was shaking , quivering , or trembling ; his neck short , his breast broad and big ; strong - armed ; his body was ...
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... head of Kildare would have dropped on the scaffold . But King Henry temporised , remonstrated with O'Connor , who boasted that within one twelvemonth they would care Ꭰ no more in Ireland for the King of England than THE IRISH ...
... head of Kildare would have dropped on the scaffold . But King Henry temporised , remonstrated with O'Connor , who boasted that within one twelvemonth they would care Ꭰ no more in Ireland for the King of England than THE IRISH ...
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... heads . Fear , not loyalty , withheld the upraised arm . " Silken Thomas , " now deserted and forlorn , surrendered him- self a prisoner , and was dispatched to the Tower in London , together with his uncles five , brave and noble ...
... heads . Fear , not loyalty , withheld the upraised arm . " Silken Thomas , " now deserted and forlorn , surrendered him- self a prisoner , and was dispatched to the Tower in London , together with his uncles five , brave and noble ...
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... head of the Church ; the religious abbeys were suppressed , the lands were distributed upon easy terms amongst the Roman Catholic chieftains , who did not blush to share the spoil ; and , thus enriched and ennobled by King Harry , they ...
... head of the Church ; the religious abbeys were suppressed , the lands were distributed upon easy terms amongst the Roman Catholic chieftains , who did not blush to share the spoil ; and , thus enriched and ennobled by King Harry , they ...
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... heads with sorrow : Good grows with her . In her days every man shall eat , in safety , Under his own vine , what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours . God shall be truly known , and those about her From ...
... heads with sorrow : Good grows with her . In her days every man shall eat , in safety , Under his own vine , what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours . God shall be truly known , and those about her From ...
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Page 299 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 311 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 288 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 314 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 275 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 292 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 314 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 298 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 289 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 312 - Tiber ! Father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day !" So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And, with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide.