European MosaicLittle, Brown, 1864 - 339 páginas |
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Página 241 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove. As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 20 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame : nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 187 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : ' Here lies one whose name was writ
Página 246 - oft converse with heavenly habitants Began to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turned it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all was made immortal.
Página 131 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world.
Página 22 - thou the hill, the bridge that hangs on cloud * The mules in mist grope o'er the torrent loud, In caves lie coiled the dragon's ancient brood, The crag leaps down and over it the flood : Know'st thou it then t
Página 18 - we cannot be so easily discharged; descents of ancestry long continued; laws and exploits not plainly seeming to be borrowed or devised, which on the common belief have wrought no small impression; defended by many, denied utterly by few.
Página 223 - honor. The golden eagle, which glittered in the front of the legion, was the object of their fondest devotion ; nor was it esteemed less impious than it was ignominious to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger. The
Página 223 - exercises comprehended whatever could add strength to the body, activity to the limbs, or grace to the motions. The soldiers were diligently instructed to march, to run, to leap, to swim, to carry heavy burdens, to handle
Página 96 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, The all in every part.