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... side , besides Joachim , King of Naples , and his army ; they occupied only a few provinces in Lombardy , and the French army which opposed them was not numerous . In the circum- stances we are now supposing , the situation of the ...
... side , besides Joachim , King of Naples , and his army ; they occupied only a few provinces in Lombardy , and the French army which opposed them was not numerous . In the circum- stances we are now supposing , the situation of the ...
Page 69
... side of Trieste , Fiume , and Dalmatia . It would be a fortunate circumstance for the Italians , to defend themselves by combating the enemy on his own territory . Let us be permitted , for a moment , to recal the admiration which the ...
... side of Trieste , Fiume , and Dalmatia . It would be a fortunate circumstance for the Italians , to defend themselves by combating the enemy on his own territory . Let us be permitted , for a moment , to recal the admiration which the ...
Page 74
... side , and using the crown of his hat as a desk , he scribbled his rustic lays , which were seldom other than joyful . He evidently had no idea that the world did him injustice in allowing him to remain poor ; and if he does sometimes ...
... side , and using the crown of his hat as a desk , he scribbled his rustic lays , which were seldom other than joyful . He evidently had no idea that the world did him injustice in allowing him to remain poor ; and if he does sometimes ...
Page 100
... side , showing that the Whigs have been able to do either nothing , or nothing well . There is a vigour and harmony in the style , which argue a power in the writer for more ambitious efforts . Memoranda on France , Italy , and Germany ...
... side , showing that the Whigs have been able to do either nothing , or nothing well . There is a vigour and harmony in the style , which argue a power in the writer for more ambitious efforts . Memoranda on France , Italy , and Germany ...
Page 104
... side , and an Italian on the father's , Taglioni possesses all the high and chivalrous qualities of the former nation , combined with the consummate flexibility and grace of the latter . The public know her well as the queen of the ...
... side , and an Italian on the father's , Taglioni possesses all the high and chivalrous qualities of the former nation , combined with the consummate flexibility and grace of the latter . The public know her well as the queen of the ...
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Page 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.