The Roxburghe Ballads, Volumen2,Parte2

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Ballad society, 1885
 

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Página 487 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 522 - Faith is not built on disquisitions vain ; The things we must believe are few and plain : But since men will believe more than they need, And every man will make himself a creed, In doubtful questions 'tis the safest way To learn what unsuspected ancients say ; For 'tis not likely we should higher soar In search of heaven than all the church before : Nor can we be deceived, unless we see The Scripture and the Fathers disagree.
Página 47 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 423 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!
Página 637 - Duchess * mark'd his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell. That they should tend the old man well...
Página 555 - Sigh of hers to see me Languish, Will more than pay the price of my past Anguish: Beware, O cruel Fair, how you smile on me, 'Twas a kind look of yours that has undone me. Love has in store for me one happy Minute, And She will end my pain who did begin it ; Then no day void of Bliss, or Pleasure leaving, Ages shall slide away without perceiving: Cupid shall guard the Door the more to please us, And keep out Time and Death, when they would seize us: Time and Death shall depart, and say in flying,...
Página 286 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Página 609 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Página 371 - Not that the virulent ill of act and talk Seethes ever as a winepress ever trod, — Not therefore are we certain that the rod Weighs in thine hand to smite thy world ; though now Beneath thine hand so many nations bow, So many kings : — not therefore, O my God ! — But because Man is parcelled out in men...
Página 555 - Then no day void of bliss or pleasure leaving Ages shall slide away without perceiving: Cupid shall guard the door the more to please us. And keep out time and death when they would seize us; Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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