Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 5 |
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... short life he had been looked upon as the heir - presumptive to the throne . Certainly , as before said , two other sons were born to Hortense ; but , after the death of the eldest , Napoleon seems to have regarded their lives as too ...
... short life he had been looked upon as the heir - presumptive to the throne . Certainly , as before said , two other sons were born to Hortense ; but , after the death of the eldest , Napoleon seems to have regarded their lives as too ...
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... short at the very first , and those would have been friends who otherwise would be sure to become enemies , perhaps for the remainder of their lives . Now , if we consider how many disad- vantages attend our having the ill - will of our ...
... short at the very first , and those would have been friends who otherwise would be sure to become enemies , perhaps for the remainder of their lives . Now , if we consider how many disad- vantages attend our having the ill - will of our ...
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... short gun , and swore he would shoot some of the party if the arms were not restored ; telling them at the same time of the generosity of the captain towards him and his wife . The gallant captain and true sportsman , it appeared , was ...
... short gun , and swore he would shoot some of the party if the arms were not restored ; telling them at the same time of the generosity of the captain towards him and his wife . The gallant captain and true sportsman , it appeared , was ...
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... short , but the kindly sympathies which God has designed all his creatures to feel for each other . Joseph Holt , who acted as general to the rebel peasantry of Ireland in 1798 , was withheld from execution , and only banished , in ...
... short , but the kindly sympathies which God has designed all his creatures to feel for each other . Joseph Holt , who acted as general to the rebel peasantry of Ireland in 1798 , was withheld from execution , and only banished , in ...
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... short , the system of ' love ' is gradually supplanting that of force and fear , and its good effects tell upon the poor soldier as upon all other human beings . LOVE IS POWER - AMONGST CHILDREN . The return of anger for anger , bad ...
... short , the system of ' love ' is gradually supplanting that of force and fear , and its good effects tell upon the poor soldier as upon all other human beings . LOVE IS POWER - AMONGST CHILDREN . The return of anger for anger , bad ...
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Página 25 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 22 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ? What mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Página 8 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Página 30 - Is this thy voice, my son David ? " And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. And he said to David, " Thou art more righteous than I : for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me : forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
Página 21 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 21 - The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together.
Página 1 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
Página 5 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 5 - Ever, he said, that, close and near, A lady's voice was in his ear, And that the priest he could not hear ; For that she ever sung, " In the lost battle, borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying...
Página 2 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?