The Poetical and Prose Writings of James LinenW. J. Widdleton, 1865 - 423 páginas |
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... honored line , Debased I feel that meaner blood should so mingled be with mine ; There's a stain on my escutcheon , a ... honor stung , While I listened to the rumors widely spread by Slander's tongue . " Of all I loved on earth bereft ...
... honored line , Debased I feel that meaner blood should so mingled be with mine ; There's a stain on my escutcheon , a ... honor stung , While I listened to the rumors widely spread by Slander's tongue . " Of all I loved on earth bereft ...
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... honor and renown ! Then all the proud distinctions and treasures may be yours , And all the dearest guerdons bright that chivalry secures . " While loyal to your sovereign , be to your chieftain true , As , friends and brave hidalgos ...
... honor and renown ! Then all the proud distinctions and treasures may be yours , And all the dearest guerdons bright that chivalry secures . " While loyal to your sovereign , be to your chieftain true , As , friends and brave hidalgos ...
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... honors to attain , When we return our days to spend in our beloved Spain . " Ho ! sounds of loud rejoicing now rent the tropic air , And some the priest Olmedo joined in fervent chanting prayer ; In the sunbeams lances gleamed , and war ...
... honors to attain , When we return our days to spend in our beloved Spain . " Ho ! sounds of loud rejoicing now rent the tropic air , And some the priest Olmedo joined in fervent chanting prayer ; In the sunbeams lances gleamed , and war ...
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... honor of my word , All , all that in Tabasco live shall perish by the sword ! " Away they with the tidings speed ; and early on next morn A band of wretched men appear , in garments spare and torn : " Great Chief ! we come with heavy ...
... honor of my word , All , all that in Tabasco live shall perish by the sword ! " Away they with the tidings speed ; and early on next morn A band of wretched men appear , in garments spare and torn : " Great Chief ! we come with heavy ...
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... and his midnight dreams , To pay his debts hatch a thousand schemes ; His pride is stung and his credit lost , With an honored name he prizes most . Borrow , or burst - burst , or borrow ? 72 THE BANKRUPT MERCHANT . THE BANKRUPT MERCHANT.
... and his midnight dreams , To pay his debts hatch a thousand schemes ; His pride is stung and his credit lost , With an honored name he prizes most . Borrow , or burst - burst , or borrow ? 72 THE BANKRUPT MERCHANT . THE BANKRUPT MERCHANT.
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ages altars Anahuac ancient auld Aztec Babieca Babylon banners beauty behold blessings blood bonnie borrow bosom brave brow burning burst-burst Christian Cortez crown dark death divine dreams earth Egypt eyes fair faith fathers feel flowers fools forever frae freedom friends gallant gloom glory golden golden calf grand grave hath haughty heart heaven Hebrews hinnie holy honor human idolatry illustrious Israel Israelites Jamaica king land light living Lord Mary mind monarch Moses mountains ne'er never o'er pass Pharaoh Philistines poet Pollywog poor pride priests prophet proud proudly race rapture Red Sea reign renown ruins sacred seen shine sing smiles Solomon songs soul Spirit of Inquiry stood sweet sword tears temple Temple of Herod Temple of Solomon thee thou thousand throne tribes truth Verily virtue waters weary weeping wild Wilderness of Sin wonder worship Zerubbabel
Pasajes populares
Página 395 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Página 359 - It was at Rome, on the loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to rny mind.
Página 361 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The Gloomy Night Is Gathering Fast,
Página 379 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains?— a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Página 416 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Página 318 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Página 355 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Página 275 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 377 - Age. Admirably executed was the weeping Virgin, reclining on a broken column, upon which lay the Book of Constitutions. In her left hand she held the Pot of Incense, the Masonic emblem of a pure heart, and in her uplifted right hand a sprig of acacia, the beautiful emblem of the immortality of the soul.
Página 360 - I devoted to them. I found besides a work of De Foe's, entitled ' An Essay on Projects,' from which, perhaps, I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life.