The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete: Speeches. Lays of ancient Rome. Miscellaneous poems. IndexLongmans, Green, 1897 |
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... better formerly , but whether we can make it better now . In fact , however , the system was not in ancient times by any means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lordt has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he ...
... better formerly , but whether we can make it better now . In fact , however , the system was not in ancient times by any means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lordt has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he ...
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... better . Turn where we may , with- in , around , the voice of great events is proclaiming to us , Reform , that you may preserve . Now , therefore , while every thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless ...
... better . Turn where we may , with- in , around , the voice of great events is proclaiming to us , Reform , that you may preserve . Now , therefore , while every thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless ...
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... better time . The words were prophetic . This is that more warrantable method . This is that better time . What Cromwell attempted to effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which ...
... better time . The words were prophetic . This is that more warrantable method . This is that better time . What Cromwell attempted to effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which ...
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... better off than your neighbours are . You are better off than your fathers were . Why can you not leave well alone ? " How copiously might a Jacobite orator have harangued on this topic in the Convention of 1688 ! " Why make a change of ...
... better off than your neighbours are . You are better off than your fathers were . Why can you not leave well alone ? " How copiously might a Jacobite orator have harangued on this topic in the Convention of 1688 ! " Why make a change of ...
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... better plan . I cannot but think that these tactics are unskilful . I cannot but think that , when our opponents defended the existing system in every part , they occupied a stronger position than at present . As my noble friend the ...
... better plan . I cannot but think that these tactics are unskilful . I cannot but think that , when our opponents defended the existing system in every part , they occupied a stronger position than at present . As my noble friend the ...
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Page 473 - 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...
Page 588 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone : it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 549 - Ho! maidens of Vienna! Ho! matrons of Lucerne! Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return; Ho! Philip, send for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls ; Ho ! gallant nobles of the League, look that your arms be bright ! Ho!
Page 522 - Straightway Virginius led the maid a little space aside, To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide, Close to yon low dark archway, where, in a crimson flood, Leaps down to the great sewer the gurgling stream of blood. Hard by, a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down : Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown. And then his eyes grew very dim, and his throat began to swell, And in a hoarse, changed voice he spake, " Farewell, sweet child ! Farewell ! Oh!
Page 466 - East and west and south and north The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast. Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home, When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome.
Page 588 - Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St.
Page 471 - Just then a scout came flying, All wild with haste and fear: — " To arms! to arms! Sir Consul: Lars Porsena is here." On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise fast along the sky.
Page 475 - Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday light, Rank behind rank, like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold. Four hundred trumpets sounded A peal of warlike glee, As that great host, with measured tread, And spears advanced, and ensigns spread, Rolled slowly towards the bridge's head, Where stood the dauntless Three. The Three stood calm and silent And looked upon the foes, And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose: And forth three chiefs...
Page 476 - Three; And Lausulus of Urgo, The rover of the sea; And Aruns of Volsinium, Who slew the great wild boar, The great wild boar that had his den Amidst the reeds of Cosa's fen, And wasted fields, and slaughtered men, Along Albinia's shore. Herminius smote down Aruns: Lartius laid Ocnus low: Right to the heart of Lausulus Horatius sent a blow. "Lie there,
Page 511 - Back comes the Chief in triumph, Who, in the hour of fight, Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales If once the Great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.