Miscellaneous EssaysD. Appleton, 1860 - 390 páginas |
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... become involved in the passions they were dress , the glancing of their arms ; their haughty destined to combat , and the cardinal's purple manners , daring courage , and knightly cour - covered the shoulders of an associate in the tesy ...
... become involved in the passions they were dress , the glancing of their arms ; their haughty destined to combat , and the cardinal's purple manners , daring courage , and knightly cour - covered the shoulders of an associate in the tesy ...
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... become dry in summer . No farm - houses are to be seen on the farms , no labourers , no chariots , no oxen , or horses of agriculture . Nothing can be figured so melan- choly as to see the track of a modern wheel , where you can still ...
... become dry in summer . No farm - houses are to be seen on the farms , no labourers , no chariots , no oxen , or horses of agriculture . Nothing can be figured so melan- choly as to see the track of a modern wheel , where you can still ...
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... become infatuated by their unfavourable aspect they appear in our ordi- errors , but to know and appreciate their ideas , nary translations ; and in the utter ignorance and do that justice to passions directed against of the principles ...
... become infatuated by their unfavourable aspect they appear in our ordi- errors , but to know and appreciate their ideas , nary translations ; and in the utter ignorance and do that justice to passions directed against of the principles ...
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... become afterwards , Napoleon was at that period an ardent republican : not pro- bably because the principles of democracy were suited to his inclinations , but because he found in the favour of that faction , then the ruling power in ...
... become afterwards , Napoleon was at that period an ardent republican : not pro- bably because the principles of democracy were suited to his inclinations , but because he found in the favour of that faction , then the ruling power in ...
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... become animated with nobler sentiments towards your country . My mouth is closed on your name , and will never open more on that_subject . Repent , and appreciate my motives . I deserve it , for they are noble and generous . - Madame ...
... become animated with nobler sentiments towards your country . My mouth is closed on your name , and will never open more on that_subject . Repent , and appreciate my motives . I deserve it , for they are noble and generous . - Madame ...
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Página 386 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch...
Página 255 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Página 160 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Página 386 - Con lieto volto, ond' io mi confortai, Mi mise dentro alle segrete cose. Quivi sospiri, pianti ed alti guai Risonavan per l'aer senza stelle, Perch' io al cominciar ne lagrimai. Diverse lingue, orribili favelle, Parole di dolore, accenti d'ira, Voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, Facevano un tumulto, il qual s' aggira Sempre in quell' aria senza tempo tinta, Come la rena quando a turbo spira.
Página 254 - But although, from the very first, we clearly discerned and forcibly pointed out the disastrous effects on the freedom, peace, and tranquillity, first of France, and then of the...
Página 71 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch.
Página 72 - Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Página 13 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 161 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 161 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a