Sketches and RamblesBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 241 páginas |
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Alpine Alps amid ancient ANNE BOLEYN arches army Arnaud battle beautiful began blood Bonaparte brave bridge Buckingham Palace cannon carriage castle Chamber Chamber of Peers Champs Elysées church coupè crowded dark deck Dieppe earth enemy England English exiles farther feel feet fell fire France French French Revolution garden gazed Grindelwald hand head heard heart heaven horses hundred king LAST CHAMOIS HUNT length London looked Louis Louis Philippe magnificent ment mighty miles monument morning mountain Napoleon never night noble overthrow palace Paris passed pasturage Père la Chaise prison Queen replied Revolution rise Robespierre rock rolled Rouen scene seat seemed shout side sleep snow soldiers Soult spot stand stood storm strange streets strolled Thames Tunnel things thousand throne thundered tomb Tower Tuileries turned valley Waldenses Waldensian walk walls wandered WESTMINSTER ABBEY whole wild woman
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Página 141 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Página 226 - O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture ? 2 Remember thy congregation, -which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations ; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Página 226 - Have respect unto the covenant : for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed : let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Página 227 - MANY a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Página 166 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Página 140 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Página 165 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the Queen goes away so far off — whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her, in a dark prison all alone.
Página 162 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander, must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness, then I desire of God that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine enemies, the instruments thereof, and that he will not call you to a strict account for your unprincely and cruel usage of me, at his general judgment-seat, where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not (whatsoever the world may think...
Página 162 - Try me, good king : but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...
Página 72 - Marais, old-soldier of the Regiment Dauphine; smite at that Outer Drawbridge chain, though the fiery hail whistles round thee! Never, over nave or felloe, did thy axe strike such a stroke. Down with it, man; down with it to Orcus: let the whole accursed Edifice sink thither, and Tyranny be swallowed up forever! Mounted, some say, on the roof of the guard-room, some 'on bayonets stuck into joints of the wall...