Fern Vale; or, The Queensland squatter, Volume 3; Volume 1251862 |
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Page 209 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 354 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Page 299 - To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 324 - Thou dost abuse my child, and mock'st the tears That here are shed for her : if to behold Those roses withered, that set out her cheeks : That pair of stars that gave her body light...
Page 299 - Friend of the brave ! in peril's darkest hour, Intrepid Virtue looks to thee for power ; To thee the heart its trembling homage yields, On stormy floods, and carnage-cover'd fields, When front to front the banner'd hosts combine, Halt ere they close, and form the dreadful line.
Page 167 - When dried to summer dust ; till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth : If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd...
Page 388 - No more ; Go forward. Ami. I have done ; pray be not angry, That still I wish you well : may heaven divert All harms that threaten you ; full blessings crown Your marriage ! I hope there is no sin in this ; Indeed I cannot choose but pray for you.
Page 106 - ... and are in a fair state of preservation. When we gaze upon the weather-beaten stones of one of our old ecclesiastical edifices, the thought naturally arises when and how were ye placed there ? In beholding them we see the work of generations of Christians, who, in their day, occupied this busy world in much the same manner and for much the same purpose as we do ; and now, after the lapse of a few centuries, all knowledge of them individually has gone, all their acts of generosity and benevolence...
Page 395 - A most invaluable book. With the history of the Ottoman Empire no English writer is better acquainted than Dr. Madden, whose thorough mastery of the subject has been gained by a residence in the East at three different periods."—Liverpool Albion. VOL. in. a In 3 vols., RKE HOUSE. By W. PLAIT, Esq., Author of " Betty Westminster,
Page 297 - MUSICIANS we chastise these daring people who have ventured to neglect him. Ha, ha! but we will give them a lesson which they will not forget in a hurry. Have you already had a letter from that great man, Pierluigi da Palestrina? Wonderful, was he not? But, between you and me, was not his letter a trifle heavy? Just the least bit dry, eh? He always did and always will take things so solemnly. Life to him was a very serious business, while...