Walter Evelyn; or The long minority, Volume 3

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Página 97 - And so, not knowing what is before you, you take each other for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death.
Página 135 - t is in crowns a nobler gem To grant a pardon than condemn." A recent instance enforces the appeal. Kossuth has at last passed from the house of bondage. His emancipation, promoted by the aspirations, the prayers, and the express intervention of our Republic, is an example to all nations, — while the brightness of his fame shows how vain it is for any earthly...
Página 163 - ... adulation raise, Or scandal, meaner than a venal praise ! My muse (he cries) a nobler prospect view ! Through fancy's wilds some moral's point pursue ! From dark deception clear drawn truth display, As from black chaos rose resplendent day ! Awake compassion, and bid terror rise ! Bid humble sorrows strike superior eyes ! So pamper'd power, unconscious of distress, May see, be mov'd, and, being mov'd, redress. Ye traitors, tyrants, fear his stinging lay ! Ye powers unlov'd, unpitied in decay...
Página 264 - ... dark. The autumn day died. The sullen clouds dropped scattered rain. The red leaves were blown in millions by the wind. The little houses on either side the road were dark, for the dwellers in them dared not show any light that might be a star to allure to them the footsteps of their foes. Bernadou sat with his arms on the table, and his head resting on them. Margot nursed her son : Reine Allix prayed. Suddenly in the street without there was the sound of many feet of horses and of men, the shouting...
Página 60 - Hood's simile of a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way and tormenting himself with his prickles.
Página 89 - Somebody asked William Pitt whether his experience as a minister had led him to think well or ill of mankind? He answered, "Well...
Página 185 - Johnson, who was as good a man as most of us, said, " That no one was certain of anything so bad in another, but what he knew worse of himself...

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