The Metropolitan, Volumen10James Cochrane, 1834 |
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... hope and enterprise are extinct within me , and thought itself is changed to saddening retrospection ; yet should I be uncandid did I say that self - reproach makes part of my de- spondency - yet should I be ungrateful did I leave earth ...
... hope and enterprise are extinct within me , and thought itself is changed to saddening retrospection ; yet should I be uncandid did I say that self - reproach makes part of my de- spondency - yet should I be ungrateful did I leave earth ...
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... hope of winning a fame that might be worthy to make part of my country's glory ; that when she should be taunted with the fewness of her philosophers and bards , mine might be among the honoured names with which she would reply to the ...
... hope of winning a fame that might be worthy to make part of my country's glory ; that when she should be taunted with the fewness of her philosophers and bards , mine might be among the honoured names with which she would reply to the ...
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... hope of reputa- tion by publishing any of them . But I could no longer continue to toil for a remote object ; my funds were almost exhausted , and I must earn money or starve . In this emergency I wrote a short article and sent it to a ...
... hope of reputa- tion by publishing any of them . But I could no longer continue to toil for a remote object ; my funds were almost exhausted , and I must earn money or starve . In this emergency I wrote a short article and sent it to a ...
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... hope to find you more tractable ; a little maternal advice will improve you amazingly . But I vow we must have you on the boards . That melo - dramatic air is divine , and would make your fortune . ' Appalled and terror - stricken I ...
... hope to find you more tractable ; a little maternal advice will improve you amazingly . But I vow we must have you on the boards . That melo - dramatic air is divine , and would make your fortune . ' Appalled and terror - stricken I ...
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... hope that Harwell would fear to invite public notice to a transaction in which he had played so dis- graceful a part . On calm reflection , I saw good reason for believing that the marriage had only been a mock ceremony , intended to ...
... hope that Harwell would fear to invite public notice to a transaction in which he had played so dis- graceful a part . On calm reflection , I saw good reason for believing that the marriage had only been a mock ceremony , intended to ...
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Página 329 - See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Página 69 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Página 192 - The barge she sat in. like a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver. Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person. It beggar'd all description...
Página 192 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 57 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 192 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands. That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Página 32 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 11 - While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
Página 200 - Tom's head, which, however, he dared not put into execution himself; but " a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse,
Página 182 - Though he win the wise, who frown'd before, To smile at last ; He'll never meet A joy so sweet, In all his noon of fame, As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And, at every close, she blush'd to hear The one loved name.