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... king , but merely a set of native chiefs , almost as savage as are the New Zealanders now ; that the Septs ravaged and fought each other , sometimes eating their enemies in wild brutality , always at war , until they voluntarily called ...
... king , but merely a set of native chiefs , almost as savage as are the New Zealanders now ; that the Septs ravaged and fought each other , sometimes eating their enemies in wild brutality , always at war , until they voluntarily called ...
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... king has reigned and such a dynasty has lasted , and will have acquainted himself with some of the landmarks of history . At the same time the reader will do well to guard himself against making any more use of a sovereign than as a ...
... king has reigned and such a dynasty has lasted , and will have acquainted himself with some of the landmarks of history . At the same time the reader will do well to guard himself against making any more use of a sovereign than as a ...
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... king ; and , having a sudden and sharp grasp of character , all the statesmen and authors of whom he writes stand out brilliantly and clearly in his pages . His great faults are a " review " style , and a certain dog- matism inseparable ...
... king ; and , having a sudden and sharp grasp of character , all the statesmen and authors of whom he writes stand out brilliantly and clearly in his pages . His great faults are a " review " style , and a certain dog- matism inseparable ...
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... king said that ' he deserved to be hanged ; ' and that earl coming shortly after into the room where his majesty was , in some gaiety , to show how unhurt he was from that battle , the king sent one to bid him withdraw from his ...
... king said that ' he deserved to be hanged ; ' and that earl coming shortly after into the room where his majesty was , in some gaiety , to show how unhurt he was from that battle , the king sent one to bid him withdraw from his ...
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... king's closet , or from the apartments of the men whom he describes , and was telling his reader , in plain , honest terms , of what he had seen and heard . " Burnet has been charged with dishonesty ; but , although he is a par- tisan ...
... king's closet , or from the apartments of the men whom he describes , and was telling his reader , in plain , honest terms , of what he had seen and heard . " Burnet has been charged with dishonesty ; but , although he is a par- tisan ...
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Página 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 57 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day 1 O first-created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Página 157 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 47 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows ; And when we meet at any time again Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 261 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 59 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 241 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Página 57 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Página 242 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Página 94 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...