Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2Partridge & Company, 1856 |
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... Lord George Bentinck .. J. M. W. Turner ......... The Opening and Closing Scenes in the Lives of Celebrated Men . Michael Angelo . Lord Palmerston Percy Bysshe Shelley . Barthold George Niebuhr ....... Thomas Chatterton . Daniel O ...
... Lord George Bentinck .. J. M. W. Turner ......... The Opening and Closing Scenes in the Lives of Celebrated Men . Michael Angelo . Lord Palmerston Percy Bysshe Shelley . Barthold George Niebuhr ....... Thomas Chatterton . Daniel O ...
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... Lord I have not deserted the righteous cause for which I suffer ! " Hampden , with enduring patriotism , prayed , when mortally wounded , “ O Lord ! save my bleeding country . Have these realms in thy special keeping . Confound and ...
... Lord I have not deserted the righteous cause for which I suffer ! " Hampden , with enduring patriotism , prayed , when mortally wounded , “ O Lord ! save my bleeding country . Have these realms in thy special keeping . Confound and ...
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... Lord Melbourne ap- pointed him Clerk of the Closet of the Chapel Royal . He His liberality of opinion was as wide as the prosecution of his duties was unwearied . Bigotry and intolerance formed no ingredient of his mind . While loving ...
... Lord Melbourne ap- pointed him Clerk of the Closet of the Chapel Royal . He His liberality of opinion was as wide as the prosecution of his duties was unwearied . Bigotry and intolerance formed no ingredient of his mind . While loving ...
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... LORD GEORGE BENTINCK . EVEN by those who regard him as the exponent of an obsolete policy , —the champion of a defeated and hopeless party , -George Bentinck will ever be held in esteem as ... LORD GEORGE BENTINCK . 65 Lord George Bentinck.
... LORD GEORGE BENTINCK . EVEN by those who regard him as the exponent of an obsolete policy , —the champion of a defeated and hopeless party , -George Bentinck will ever be held in esteem as ... LORD GEORGE BENTINCK . 65 Lord George Bentinck.
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... Lord George Bentinck delivered an animated speech . The majority in favour of the second reading was 88 . The Easter holidays were now not far distant , and every effort continued to be made to prevent the new Corn Bill being sent up to ...
... Lord George Bentinck delivered an animated speech . The majority in favour of the second reading was 88 . The Easter holidays were now not far distant , and every effort continued to be made to prevent the new Corn Bill being sent up to ...
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Página 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
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Página 95 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
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Página 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.