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... lines each , which he did in a couple of days , he became tired of it . I make no doubt he would have finished his design , but as he was proceeding with it the thought struck him of writing an heroic poem to be called " Olaus the Great ...
... lines each , which he did in a couple of days , he became tired of it . I make no doubt he would have finished his design , but as he was proceeding with it the thought struck him of writing an heroic poem to be called " Olaus the Great ...
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... lines , and very pretty and polished they were , but too many to be remembered from one reading . Having gone round the grounds , I took my leave , very much pleased with the place . Lord Holland is extremely kind . But that is of ...
... lines , and very pretty and polished they were , but too many to be remembered from one reading . Having gone round the grounds , I took my leave , very much pleased with the place . Lord Holland is extremely kind . But that is of ...
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... lines in order to catch the post . I have not a minute to read them over . I lost yesterday , and have been forced to work to - day . Half my article on Boswell went to Edinburgh the day before yesterday . I have , though I say it who ...
... lines in order to catch the post . I have not a minute to read them over . I lost yesterday , and have been forced to work to - day . Half my article on Boswell went to Edinburgh the day before yesterday . I have , though I say it who ...
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... line to the Edinburgh Review ; and if I had been out of office , I should have been able to do very little . Edward Bulwer has just given up the New Monthly Magazine on the ground that he cannot conduct it and attend to his ...
... line to the Edinburgh Review ; and if I had been out of office , I should have been able to do very little . Edward Bulwer has just given up the New Monthly Magazine on the ground that he cannot conduct it and attend to his ...
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... line . In the meantime I shall save my family from distress , and shall return with a competence honestly earned , as rich as if I were Duke of Northumberland or Marquess of West- minster . and able to act on all public questions ...
... line . In the meantime I shall save my family from distress , and shall return with a competence honestly earned , as rich as if I were Duke of Northumberland or Marquess of West- minster . and able to act on all public questions ...
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Page 215 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 207 - Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives...
Page 46 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 57 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Page 57 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: For they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 56 - If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away.
Page 45 - ... their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war. Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that...
Page 56 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Page 56 - ... the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Page xxi - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.