Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... present discussion , so we leave to other pens the task of stigmatizing the Con- queror by a harsher name . Louis the Sixth of France is the next who Louis claims our attention ; the difference between his reign RIGHT AND MIGHT . 11.
... present discussion , so we leave to other pens the task of stigmatizing the Con- queror by a harsher name . Louis the Sixth of France is the next who Louis claims our attention ; the difference between his reign RIGHT AND MIGHT . 11.
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... leaving to the lords of the creation the active conjugation of the word Fame , upon her reign the glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot ...
... leaving to the lords of the creation the active conjugation of the word Fame , upon her reign the glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot ...
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... leaves its undying offspring to rise above the decay of the form , and tell Posterity what the deceased has done . ' Pope has said that Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . " And is the maxim heeded ? Alas ! no ; men ...
... leaves its undying offspring to rise above the decay of the form , and tell Posterity what the deceased has done . ' Pope has said that Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . " And is the maxim heeded ? Alas ! no ; men ...
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... leave their vestiges from generation to generation . Say not , ye cold sophists , that goodness meets not its reward here below . Ungrate- fully , it is true , the most meritorious actions may be acknowledged ; but he who lies him down ...
... leave their vestiges from generation to generation . Say not , ye cold sophists , that goodness meets not its reward here below . Ungrate- fully , it is true , the most meritorious actions may be acknowledged ; but he who lies him down ...
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... leave into their hands that reigning feeling of the ambition of good , which none but himself can so effectually ripen to maturity . Young England must begin by considering his country as a vast inheritance in which he will have a ...
... leave into their hands that reigning feeling of the ambition of good , which none but himself can so effectually ripen to maturity . Young England must begin by considering his country as a vast inheritance in which he will have a ...
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Página 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Página 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Página 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Página 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Página 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Página 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.