The Metropolitan, Volumen14James Cochrane, 1835 |
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... existence in the service , and now that the country no longer requires them , is it fair or just to throw them on the wide world without indemnification ? Such was the case of the midshipmen , and the country had to choose between an ...
... existence in the service , and now that the country no longer requires them , is it fair or just to throw them on the wide world without indemnification ? Such was the case of the midshipmen , and the country had to choose between an ...
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... existence which has done its duty better , or been more valuable to a state , than the navy of Great Britain . Yet , strange to say , it is the only service which we know of , in which young men are induced to enter , without any surety ...
... existence which has done its duty better , or been more valuable to a state , than the navy of Great Britain . Yet , strange to say , it is the only service which we know of , in which young men are induced to enter , without any surety ...
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... existence appears to depend upon its not being interfered with . I had an instance of this kind , and the parties are all living . I put up at a livery stables in town , a pair of young ponies , for an hour or two . On my taking them ...
... existence appears to depend upon its not being interfered with . I had an instance of this kind , and the parties are all living . I put up at a livery stables in town , a pair of young ponies , for an hour or two . On my taking them ...
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... existence to heathen conception , and is sullied by every human frailty , that must ever be borne in mind . It may be necessary to give a brief outline of the plot which formed the drama of Eschylus , and we cannot do better than by ...
... existence to heathen conception , and is sullied by every human frailty , that must ever be borne in mind . It may be necessary to give a brief outline of the plot which formed the drama of Eschylus , and we cannot do better than by ...
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... existence . By the inhabitants they were feared and favoured ; and if aught was ever required of them , their assistance was punc- tually lent , and as punctually requited . The wildness of such scenes had stirred up some to the same ...
... existence . By the inhabitants they were feared and favoured ; and if aught was ever required of them , their assistance was punc- tually lent , and as punctually requited . The wildness of such scenes had stirred up some to the same ...
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Página 321 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 64 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Página 60 - Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have waked the sullen year?
Página 63 - I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery.
Página 321 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 64 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow ? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave : they have in...
Página 65 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 61 - Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Página 64 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 64 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.